U Energy

Account Manager

• Shape and execute a long-term development framework aligned with USEF’s strategic ambitions.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward ultra-high net worth individuals, foundations, and institutional partners.
• Guide resources to the highest-leverage opportunities informed by USEF’s position at the intersection of funders and the field.
• Collaborate with funders on strategy development.
• Strengthen USEF’s visibility, credibility, and brand with key external audiences.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Strategic Partnerships team.

Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Accountant

• Reconcile general ledger accounts, including grantmaking activity
• Support month-end and year-end closing processes
• Manage fixed asset schedules, prepaid expense amortizations, and depreciation entries
• Ensure compliance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
• Document and maintain accounting policies, procedures, and internal controls
• Contribute to the annual audit, preparing schedules and supporting documentation
• Review and process employee expense reports for compliance
• Identify opportunities to improve and streamline accounting workflows
• Build collaborative relationships across Finance and other teams

Senior Accountant

• Contribute to developing and implementing innovative and comprehensive plans for cultivating philanthropic support by managing an existing portfolio of funders, prospects, and program issue areas.
• Support National, States and Regions, Strategic Communications, and Programs and Equity teams’ quarterly fundraising check-ins, including developing the agenda and tracking action/follow-up items.
• In collaboration with the SP team and external consultants, build and manage an active pipeline that identifies and continually brings in new prospective funders to USEF.
• Support the maintenance of highly sophisticated relationships with partners by conducting or coordinating meaningful and regular contact with them through meetings, convenings, and other activities, ensuring funders’ long-term commitment to USEF and the climate and clean energy field as a whole.
• Proactively capture and track all follow-up issues and action items that emerge from external funder meetings and stakeholder convenings, as well as internal USEF meetings, independently and in collaboration with the SP team and other USEF colleagues.
• Support the SP team and USEF leadership in preparing for key meetings, including agenda preparation, scheduling support, and collaboration with the team to gather background research on current and prospective funders.
• In coordination with the SP team and USEF colleagues, work directly with funders and prospects to engage them in program areas of interest.
• Collaborate with the SP Communications team and other staff to create, edit, and maintain drafts of funder-facing collateral.
• Collaborate with USEF leadership and the SP team to organize key funder events, briefings, forums, and meetings by creating invitation lists, drafting invitations, scheduling support, and tracking RSVPs.
• Serve or participate in cross-functional teams to improve and integrate the SP team into organizational processes, and implement new systems.
• Perform other relevant duties, as assigned.

Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

Senior Accountant

Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships