Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor with 17 years of experience advancing innovative technologies with deep environmental and local impact. They are seeking a Director of Growth & Giving to lead fundraising efforts and cultivate relationships with high net worth individuals and organizations to mobilize significant charitable capital.
Responsibilities
- Craft sophisticated, one-of-a-kind funding pitches (both written concepts and beautiful decks) that are tailored to the unique interests of philanthropic prospects
- Write technical, data-driven proposals that incorporate the measurable impact of new climate technologies, while also capturing the imagination of donors
- Design protocols, systems and processes to efficiently solicit data, stories and programmatic updates from across different teams – and then translate that information into multi-million dollar concepts
- Develop modeling for new capital recycling programs, ie recoverable grants and PRIs, and articulate the value proposition for a blended finance approach to scale climate innovation
- Collaborate closely with the Chief Growth Officer and CEO to expertly manage their high volume inbound of new philanthropic, institutional, corporate and other funder prospects
- Build a robust and segmented database of funder pipeline, own the sales cycle, and design white glove cultivation strategies for consistent engagement and donor conversion
- Partner closely and humbly with the Communications, Events and Creative teams to integrate new donor messaging into public facing materials, ie website, Annual Report, blogs, event signage and talking points, etc
- Once new funding is secured, work directly with your Growth Team to ensure a seamless “handoff” for ongoing donor stewardship, compliance and grant reporting
- Collaborate with the Investment and Finance teams to build traditional grant budgets and also structure recoverable grants and PRIs that support existing catalytic capital and recycling strategies, eg D-SAFE
Skills
- Demonstrated and consistent success in pitch development and proposal writing for both small gifts and large seven- and eight- figure grants
- Deep experience and knowledge of climate technology, impact investing, and/or the environment sector
- Ability to build deal pipelines in Hubspot, detailed budgets in Excel, and beautiful presentations in Google Slides
- Experience in climate, technology and impact investing
- Impeccable writing, visual creativity and fundraising mastery
- Experience in both nonprofit and for-profit / management consulting
- Familiarity structuring recoverable grants and Program-Related Investments with foundations and DAFs
- If you are able to mix technical rigor and subject matter mastery with an eye for design and an innate desire to surprise and delight
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits
- Professional development stipend
- Three weeks paid time off
- Hybrid working model
- If you are within a reasonable distance to one of our offices in New York, Bay Area, or Honolulu, we invite you to build community with team members in person at least once a week
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