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UpTogether

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11 - 50 employees

🤲 Charity

💸 Finance

🌍 Social Impact

Charity • Finance • Social Impact

UpTogether is a systems change organization dedicated to disrupting traditional approaches to ending poverty in the United States. The organization emphasizes that poverty is not due to individual failure, but rather a result of systemic policies that inhibit economic mobility. UpTogether partners with families and communities experiencing financial hardships, providing them cash investments without restrictions. They work to amplify stories and evidence that show the effectiveness of these investments. By collaborating with community organizations, members, and partners, UpTogether aims to foster equitable systems that allow everyone to thrive.

📋 Description

• Coordinate proposal development and maintain the fundraising tools, resources, and processes that support regional and national fundraising efforts. • Draft, edit, and refine proposals, concept papers, letters of inquiry, grant applications, and other fundraising materials. • Coordinate cross-functional input from internal teams to ensure high-quality, competitive submissions. • Develop and maintain proposal templates, boilerplate language, standard budgets, impact statements, and a centralized library of fundraising resources. • Manage proposal timelines, submission calendars, and internal review processes. • Ensure proposals accurately reflect UpTogether's strategic priorities, evidence, and organizational approach. • Continuously improve proposal development processes and fundraising resources. • Coordinate grant reporting and ensure compliance with funder requirements throughout the grant lifecycle. • Manage grant reporting calendars and submission deadlines. • Coordinate report development across internal teams. • Draft and edit narrative grant reports. • Track grant requirements, deliverables, and compliance obligations. • Maintain grant documentation, funding agreements, and organizational records. • Support grant closeout activities and ensure reporting accurately reflects program outcomes and financial information. • Strengthen the operational systems that support fundraising and revenue management. • Maintain Salesforce data integrity, grant records, revenue tracking, GAUs, and fundraising documentation. • Coordinate financial requests and revenue reconciliation with the Finance team. • Manage fundraising workflows and project tracking within Asana. • Produce fundraising dashboards, pipeline reports, and leadership updates. • Identify and implement improvements to CRM systems, workflows, reporting, documentation, and operational processes. • Leverage AI-enabled tools and automation to improve proposal development, reporting, knowledge management, and fundraising operations. • Research and identify institutional, corporate, government, and philanthropic funding opportunities aligned with UpTogether's priorities. • Analyze opportunities and provide recommendations regarding strategic fit, competitiveness, timing, and engagement approach. • Develop prospect profiles, funder briefings, and meeting materials for leadership. • Monitor philanthropic trends and emerging funding opportunities. • Draft funder updates, stewardship communications, impact stories, and follow-up materials. • Develop one-pagers, presentations, pitch decks, and other fundraising collateral. • Coordinate logistics and follow-up for funder meetings and external engagements. • Support stewardship of individual donors, including acknowledgments and ongoing communications. • Maintain donor communication records within Salesforce and support annual fundraising campaigns as needed. • Support the implementation and operational management of cash transfer programs, grants, and strategic initiatives. • Coordinate cross-functional implementation plans and project management.

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 3–5 years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, grants management, development operations, foundation relations, or revenue operations. • Demonstrated experience managing proposal development, grant reporting, and fundraising operations. • Strong writing, editing, and project management skills. • Experience conducting prospect research and providing strategic funding recommendations. • Experience coordinating cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders. • Proficiency with Salesforce (or a comparable CRM) and project management platforms such as Asana. • Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities. • Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams. • Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity tools and workflow automation is preferred.