Senior Director – Strategic Philanthropy

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Vitamin Angels

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

51 - 200 employees

Founded 1994

🤲 Charity

🏥 Healthcare

💰 $300k Grant - Vitamin Angels on 2023-12

Charity • Healthcare

Vitamin Angels is a global public health nonprofit focused on improving nutrition for pregnant women, infants, and young children by increasing access to evidence-based nutrition interventions such as vitamin A supplementation, prenatal vitamins, and deworming. They partner with local organizations and governments in about 65 countries to deliver training, resources, service delivery, and reporting support. Vitamin Angels emphasizes financial transparency, community and corporate partnerships, and aims to double impact to reach 140 million women and children annually by 2033. They provide program resources, corporate engagement, and accept philanthropic donations to fund interventions in underserved communities.

📋 Description

• Lead Vitamin Angels’ fundraising from public foundations, global philanthropic alliances, and other institutional funders • Build and manage a portfolio of high-value prospects and funders • Establish and achieve annual revenue goals with the Chief Development Officer • Lead the full fundraising cycle, from prospect identification through solicitation, award management, stewardship, and renewal • Cultivate, solicit, negotiate with, and steward high-priority funders • Develop tailored engagement and solicitation strategies • Maintain prospect, pipeline, activity, relationship, and revenue information in Salesforce • Lead development and submission of proposals, concept notes, presentations, reports, and other funding communications • Partner with Programs and Finance on project scopes, budgets, deliverables, and reporting commitments • Oversee funder stewardship, reporting, and renewal strategies • Provide revenue forecasts, pipeline analysis, and assessments of funding opportunities and risks to the CDO • Serve as the internal expert on foundation and institutional philanthropy • Translate programmatic strategy, scientific evidence, and impact into philanthropic investment opportunities • Monitor global health and philanthropy trends and identify engagement opportunities • Partner with Development and other teams on cross-functional funding opportunities • Build alignment across Programs, Finance, Marketing, the Executive Office, and Development • Represent Vitamin Angels in funder meetings, conferences, philanthropic networks, and global health forums • Contribute to Development strategy, revenue planning, and departmental performance • Build the Strategic Philanthropy function • Hire and manage one direct report initially and expand the team as needed • Establish team roles, goals, processes, performance measures, and accountability standards • Recruit, onboard, coach, and manage staff • Develop systems, tools, resources, and partnerships supporting sustainable institutional philanthropic revenue growth

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience • At least 12 years of progressively responsible fundraising or related experience • At least five years leading and managing high-performing teams • Significant experience in foundation and institutional fundraising • Proven record of cultivating, soliciting, negotiating, and securing significant grants and philanthropic commitments • Success meeting ambitious revenue goals and securing new and renewed multiyear support • Strong knowledge of the foundation and global philanthropic funding landscape • Experience developing complex proposals, concept notes, presentations, budgets, and funder reports • Experience managing restricted grants and ensuring compliance with funder requirements • Ability to translate technical, scientific, and programmatic information into compelling philanthropic investment cases • Knowledge of global health and development funding trends • Experience building or significantly expanding a fundraising function, team, or portfolio • Strong financial acumen and ability to develop accurate project budgets and funding requests • Ability to recruit, coach, develop, and hold staff accountable • Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal communication skills • Critical thinking, sound judgment, and ability to manage complex projects and competing priorities • Entrepreneurial, goal-oriented, self-directed, and comfortable building a new function while managing a high-value fundraising portfolio • High standards for quality, accuracy, responsiveness, donor service, and accountability • Proficiency with Salesforce or a comparable CRM, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint • Commitment to Vitamin Angels’ global mission and guiding behaviors • Ability to work effectively under pressure with professionalism, humility, adaptability, and good humor • Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally as required • Relevant Master’s Degree preferred • Experience in nutrition or maternal, newborn, and child health preferred • Knowledge of a non-English language preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental and Vision Care • Life Insurance • 401(k) • Paid Time Off • Holidays • Wellness Program • Paid parental leave