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Spark Climate Solutions

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1 - 10 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Spark Climate Solutions is a science-driven non-profit organization focused on mitigating unmanaged climate risks through innovative solutions. The organization collaborates with scientists, policymakers, and peer groups to develop emerging fields aimed at limiting global warming and managing Earth system risks, with the ultimate goal of creating a safer climate. Spark emphasizes reducing methane emissions and other short-lived climate forcers to decrease near-term warming and focuses on research areas such as livestock methane innovation and atmospheric methane removal. By broadening the array of climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, Spark aims to minimize environmental and social risks.

📋 Description

• Attend funder meetings alongside executive leadership and program leads and identify, document, and drive the next steps • Coach program directors on how to communicate with and engage funders more effectively over time • Coordinate funder strategy across Spark’s programs—mapping funders to programs, clarifying relationship owners, and sequencing the right ask from the right program at the right time • Close funding opportunities by understanding each donor’s perspective, portfolio, and knowing when and how to make the ask, and managing grant proposal steps and timelines • Steward funder relationships individually—tracking each funder’s interests and what they respond to, and matching Spark’s latest wins, research, and communications products to the right moments for engagement • Work directly with scientists and program leads to translate complex research into compelling philanthropic narratives • Prepare high-quality funder materials including briefings, proposals, reports, and stewardship updates • Represent Spark at field convenings, donor events, and conferences • Maintain rigorous CRM hygiene and contribute to pipeline reporting and forecasting

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of frontline fundraising experience or comparable sales or business-development experience, with a track record of closing six- and seven-figure deals • Experience building a portfolio of new relationships in a growth-stage or start-up environment • Proven experience working in or alongside scientific, research, or technical organizations and the ability to partner with subject matter experts • High emotional intelligence and the ability to build trust quickly and continue to grow that trust over time • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, specifically pitch, business development, or grant proposal, and the ability to coach others on effective communications in these environments • Experience with CRM systems (Virtuous, Salesforce, or similar) and pipeline management • Self-directed, exceptionally organized, able to hold a lot of relationships simultaneously without dropping threads, rigorous attention to detail, and the ability to absorb large volumes of context quickly • Genuine interest in climate philanthropy and the science of climate intervention

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive benefits package including 90% health coverage and 75% coverage for dependents • 401k matching • Generous PTO • Sick time • End-of-year closure • Parental leave • Annual national park pass • More