Director of Philanthropic Partnerships
Thousand Currents
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $141,450 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Co‑create and implement fundraising strategy.
- Collaborate with others on the team to design and implement an integrated fundraising strategy that advances our five‑year plan to mobilize $175 million.
- Ensure that resource‑mobilization goals align with programmatic priorities, and with our vision of moving more and better resources to movements in the Global South.
- Embed narrative and data into fundraising.
- Partner with the Communications team to ensure all philanthropic engagement is grounded in bold, evidence‑based messaging that positions grassroots solutions as climate and economic strategies.
- Use impact evidence and movement stories to inspire belief, expand imagination and invite deeper support.
- Plan for big bets, transformative gifts, and core revenue.
- Develop and lead strategies to secure seven+ figure gifts and multi‑year commitments from institutional partners, as well as some individual donors.
- Balance pursuit of “big bet” and transformational funding with disciplined growth of our base of major donors and anchor funders.
- Build cross‑team alignment.
- Coordinate with the Director of Donor Organizing, Director of Communications, the Institutional Partnerships Manager, and others teams at Thousand Currents to synchronize engagement calendars and donor touchpoints.
- Participate in cross-team strategy meetings and support seamless donor engagement across teams.
- Use data and feedback to refine strategy.
- Monitor progress toward fundraising and engagement goals through Salesforce dashboards and regular reports.
- Use data to identify opportunities for growth and adjust tactics accordingly.
- Share insights and learning across the team.
- Invest in learning.
- Stay abreast of philanthropic trends, progressive wealth movements, and emerging funding vehicles.
- Participate in training offered by Thousand Currents and sector partners, and contribute to a culture of curiosity and experimentation.
- Maintain a portfolio of individual and institutional funders, cultivating deep relationships and securing long-term commitments and transformative gifts.
- Develop individualized engagement strategies rooted in curiosity, solidarity and shared values.
- Steward current funding partners, reengage lapsed funders, and identify new prospects aligned with our mission.
- Engage various philanthropic networks and spaces to grow our community of supporters.
- Collaborate on strategic solicitations.
- Partner with the VP PPI, CEO & President, and VP Global Programs to plan and participate in high‑level engagements with institutional foundations and principal donors.
- Prepare briefing materials, talking points and customized proposals that reflect our movement partners’ solutions and Thousand Currents’ five‑year strategy.
- Leverage immersive engagement.
- Work with colleagues to design and host salons, webinars, and learning opportunities with partners that bring funders into relationships with movement leaders.
- Ensure that every engagement deepens supporters’ sense of belonging to a global community and invites them to take collective action.
- Represent Thousand Currents.
- Serve as an ambassador at philanthropic convenings, conferences and networks.
- Advocate for solidarity‑based funding practices and promote Thousand Currents as a trusted partner that connects donors with transformative movement solutions.
- Cultivate a community of believers and builders.
- Facilitate peer‑to‑peer connections and nurture spaces that align funders around movement solutions.
Requirements
- Extensive fundraising experience
- At least ten years of progressively responsible experience in resource mobilization, including a strong track record of personally cultivating and securing seven+figure gifts from institutional funders, and ideally, individuals as well.
- Strategic leadership.
- Experience designing and implementing comprehensive fundraising strategies that balance core revenue growth and transformational “big bet” or transformative gift opportunities.
- Demonstrated ability to align fundraising with organizational strategy and programmatic impact.
- Commitment to solidarity‑based philanthropy.
- Deep alignment with Thousand Currents’ mission and values, and a belief that philanthropy should resource and be accountable to movements.
- Ability to frame fundraising as organizing and community‑building, not merely “development.”
- Relationship‑centered. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to build trust and rapport across cultures, identities and power differences.
- Skilled at listening, storytelling and translating complex ideas into inspiring and accessible language.
- Management and mentorship.
- Experience supervising staff, fostering collaborative teams and supporting colleagues’ growth.
- Comfort navigating power dynamics with humility and self‑awareness.
- Systems and data fluency.
- Proficiency with CRM systems (Salesforce preferred), moves management, and data‑driven fundraising.
- Ability to design and manage budgets and interpret financial and programmatic data.
- Flexible and proactive. Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment with a remote, geographically dispersed team.
- Ability to travel as needed (both nationally and internationally) and to engage virtually across time zones.
Benefits
- 100% of employee and dependent cost for Health, Dental, and Vision for employee + medical travel insurance for employee
- 10 paid annual holidays + open paid time off policy allowing flexible time off
- Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
- Up to $1,000 stipend to set up work space, $2,000 per year wellness stipend, $1,500 per year work from home expenses, and up to $2,000 per year for learning and development
- Remote, flexible schedule
- Retirement contribution allowance of 4% of gross salary
- Life Insurance + Long and Short Term disability insurance
- Possibility of sabbatical leave after seven years of employment
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Hard skills
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Soft skills
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