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WePlanet

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2022

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

Food & Beverage • Healthcare • Consulting

WePlanet is a global grassroots movement of scientists and citizens campaigning for radical science-backed solutions to the climate and nature emergency. The organization aims to accelerate the switch to a sustainable food system, advocate for clean energy technologies, and promote rewilding initiatives to protect natural ecosystems. Through various campaigns, WePlanet seeks to raise awareness and influence policy related to nuclear energy, animal agriculture, and plant-based alternatives, with a focus on achieving global prosperity and reversing climate change.

📋 Description

• The Head of Philanthropy & Foundations personally leads WePlanet's major foundations and HNWI pipeline, from prospect identification through cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. • Build and own a diversified portfolio of major foundation prospects spanning six- and seven-figure funding opportunities. This is an income-generating role. Pipeline development is a means, not the measure of success. • Personally lead the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of top-tier foundation relationships, taking direct ownership of outcomes rather than process. • Write or lead the writing of WePlanet’s most strategic and high-value proposals, working with the Grants Officer on research, drafts and supporting materials. • Work with programme leads across alternative proteins, nuclear energy, nature and climate to shape propositions that are compelling to funders, not just internally coherent. • Consult and collaborate with the WePlanet network and Head of Global Development to develop fundable propositions that expand our movement’s global reach and capacity. • Design and run WePlanet's major donor programme from prospect identification through cultivation, solicitation and long-term stewardship. • Create bespoke cultivation moments — events, site visits, briefings — that deepen relationships with HNWI prospects and donors. • Partner with the Senior Digital Fundraising Lead on an agreed handover process for HNW prospects identified through the supporter base. • Support the Director of Impact & Partnerships on the most senior donor relationships, ensuring continuity of contact and high-quality follow-up. • Contribute to WePlanet's overall fundraising strategy under the leadership of the Director of Impact & Partnerships. • Translate WePlanet's campaigns and programmes into compelling funder-facing cases for support, in partnership with Communications and programme leads. • Maintain an active view of the philanthropic landscape, including emerging funders and evolving funder priorities. • Represent WePlanet at philanthropic conferences, networks and cultivation events, and build relationships across the effective altruism and climate philanthropy communities. • Own the major-donor and major-foundation stewardship calendar, ensuring every substantive relationship is actively maintained. • Convene and choreograph pitch teams for major opportunities, ensuring the right combination of voices is in the room for each substantive ask. • Work closely with the Grants Officer on major proposals. Take on formal line management of the Grants Officer at the three-month point of the role. • Monitor pipeline conversion rates, flag risks early and course-correct with the Director of Impact & Partnerships.

🎯 Requirements

• Substantial experience, typically five or more years, in major gift, foundation or institutional fundraising at a mission-driven organisation. • A demonstrable personal track record of leading fundraising work that has secured significant six- or seven-figure commitments from major foundations and/or HNWI donors. We will ask you to evidence this specifically. • Experience of building a foundation or major donor pipeline, not only inheriting and maintaining one. • Outstanding written and spoken English, with the ability to operate comfortably with the idioms and expectations of top-tier philanthropic institutions. • Strong proposal writing and strategic storytelling skills, translating complex, science-based campaigns into compelling cases for support. • Strong visual presentation skills, with the ability to conceptualise and produce quality decks for major funders, working effectively with designers, AI tools, or both. • Confident public speaker, comfortable holding the room in small pitch meetings, on funder panels and from the stage at events. • Ability to operate with autonomy and judgement, navigate ambiguity and work at pace in a lean, fully remote team. • Alignment with WePlanet's ecomodernist values, including comfort advocating for evidence-backed technologies such as nuclear power, GMOs and alternative proteins as part of the response to the climate and nature crisis. • Willingness to travel internationally for cultivation meetings, conferences and stewardship events.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours that adapt to your needs. • Generous paid leave, plus an additional paid organisation-wide closure between Christmas and New Year. • Annual professional development budget. • Annual team meet-ups and retreats.