Managing Director – Philanthropic Partnership

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🕒 October 17, 2025

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $86.6k - $95.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Grassroots International

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1983

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

Grassroots International is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to advancing social movements and fostering systems change for social justice and equity. It is committed to supporting grassroots initiatives around the world through a framework known as "solidarity philanthropy. " By providing grants and partnering with social movements, Grassroots International aims to promote human rights and address issues such as food sovereignty, gender equality, and environmental sustainability. With a focus on empowering communities and advocating for human rights defenders, Grassroots International also engages in advocacy and policy shifts to defend and uplift marginalized voices globally.

📋 Description

• Supervise, monitor, and support development team members, particularly focused on institutional giving and funder organizing. • Represent Grassroots International in leadership roles in funder networks and alliances, through organizing briefings, workshops, public speaking, and attending events and meetings as needed. • Work in partnership with the Director of Global Philanthropy to create a fundraising plan and budget. • Align philanthropic programs with the Strategic Plan and multiyear goals. • Work closely with the DGP and development team to coordinate fundraising opportunities and monitor the department’s progress toward annual budget benchmarks. • Oversee and coordinate initiatives to engage philanthropic advisors and impact investors, including coordinating with the Director of Global Philanthropy to maximize organizational impact. • Keep abreast of trends in giving and philanthropy. Share and apply best practices to help inform the growth and success of Grassroots' fundraising programs. • Develop and maintain relationships with funders and family foundations with significant wealth; Secure unrestricted multi-year commitments. • Provide support to the co-EDs and the Director of Global Philanthropy to manage their funder portfolio, including strategy, research, and preparation for networking opportunities. • Facilitate funder engagement in alignment with our political analysis. • Develop, write, review, and/or edit proposals and reports together with in assistance to the philanthropic partnerships manager. • Coordinate and maintain an efficient system for the collection of internal information, such as funder research, short-term, and long-term goals, networking and conferences, and other pertinent funder information. • Create and oversee strategies to re-engage lapsed funders. • Develop and raise targeted funds, such as our crisis-response fund, for specific geographically-based and issue-focused initiatives. • Assure compliance with GRI’s gift acceptance policy. • Perform additional tasks as called upon by the Global Philanthropy Director.

🎯 Requirements

• Commitment to the mission of Grassroots International; demonstrated commitment to human rights, social movements, and funder organizing. • At least three years of experience in the development field, with success in individual and institutional fundraising. • Demonstrated ability to build and work collaboratively with a team in a mission-driven and culturally diverse organization, ideally including some experience in a supervisory capacity. • Experience (paid or unpaid) working in and/or supporting social justice movements or community organizing, not necessarily in a development role. • High level of self-organization with close attention to detail. • Demonstrated understanding and ability to communicate about complex or controversial political issues, with accountability and deference to those most impacted by those issues. • Excellent oral and written communication skills. • Experience in budgeting; proficiency with the Google Suite and databases. • Ability to travel, mainly within the United States. • Ability to sit in front of the computer for extended periods of time.

🏖️ Benefits

• health • dental • disability • paid sick time and vacation • retirement