Director of Underwriting, Surety
State National Companies (SNC)
Director, Foundation and Institutional Giving
Foundation for Jewish Camp
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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💰 $115,000 - $135,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Cultivate and steward meaningful, long-term relationships with current and prospective foundation partners.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for foundation funders, ensuring timely, transparent, and mission-aligned communication.
- Proactively identify new foundation prospects and develop strategies to engage them in support of FJC’s work.
- Align FJC’s strategic priorities with funder interests, ensuring mutual value and shared impact.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to translate programmatic goals into compelling funding opportunities and reports.
- Manage the research of prospects for foundation, corporate, and government funding to address organizational needs.
- Gather information and data needed from FJC staff to support grant submissions and reporting.
- Ensure high-quality writing and timely submission of funding proposals, reports, and any other requested documents.
- Collaborate with Finance, the Chief Advancement Officer, and other FJC staff to identify budget needs and strategize packaging for funders.
- In partnership with the Development Operations Manager, ensure that all grants are acknowledged in a timely manner and maintain a detailed schedule of grant deadlines, submission dates, and reporting requirements.
- Partner with program teams to oversee the management of awarded grants, ensuring compliance with reporting requirements, budget tracking, and successful project execution.
- Hold regular funder updates with Program Directors and maintain records of all grant-related reports and activities in FJC’s database.
- Facilitate grant orientation meetings and regular grants management meetings to assess progress and address deployment issues.
- Create a strategy for corporate sponsorships and funding and work closely with Finance to ensure appropriate expenditure and accurate financial accounting and reporting.
- Ensure accurate tracking of grants revenue and provide funding information to leadership and the Board; communicate potential compliance issues timely.
- Ensure quality maintenance of database records on grant prospects, submissions, and deliverables; fulfill other duties as assigned by the Chief Advancement Officer.
Requirements
- Exceptional oral, written, and editing skills.
- Ability to clearly communicate FJC’s mission to both internal and external audiences.
- Ability to build and maintain relationships with diverse stakeholders, including high-level foundation leaders.
- Self-motivated with excellent organizational, people, project, and time management skills.
- Superior analytical and abstract reasoning skills.
- Strategic thinker, solution oriented, skilled at problem-solving and strong attention to detail.
- Ability to approach work with a positive attitude, curiosity, creativity and a growth and collaborative mindset.
- Sound research skills with the ability to identify and evaluate potential funding sources.
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to prioritize a diverse and demanding workload; set attainable expectations; and hold yourself and collaborators accountable to deadlines, milestones, and a high level of excellence.
- Ability to travel at least 20% of the time.
- Experience in foundation relations and successful grant writing, with a proven track record of securing funding from diverse foundations.
- History of successful management of strategic foundation processes and relationships.
- Experience in working in the nonprofit sector; experience with corporate social responsibility a plus.
- Tech-savvy with collaborative tech tools, grant management and donor database systems.
- Familiarity with Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Asana a plus.
- Supervisory experience managing contracted grant writers or equivalent.
