Head of Philanthropy

Head of Philanthropy | PATH
Remote work model - flexible to any location in the U.S.

Organization Overview
PATH is a global nonprofit working to advance health equity so that people, communities, and health systems can thrive. As PATH approaches its 50th anniversary, its PATH 2030 strategy is helping build on decades of trusted partnerships, scientific and technical expertise, and country-level experience to focus work where the organization can make the greatest difference. Across vaccines, diagnostics, devices, medicines, digital and data tools, and health system innovation, PATH helps move promising ideas into practical solutions that reach people and communities wherever they live.

Every day, millions of people go without the care they need – because lifesaving solutions never reach them, or because the right solutions don’t yet exist.

Scientific innovation continues, but breakthroughs too often fail to reach the people who need them most because they are not adapted to real-world contexts, sustainably financed, or integrated into health systems.

At the same time, countries face rising burdens of infectious and chronic disease, climate-related threats, and growing pressure on health systems – and communities continue to suffer illnesses that could be prevented or treated.

Closing this gap is not just a technical challenge. It is a human one.

Progress depends on innovation becoming care that people can access and trust. PATH helps make that possible.

Context for Recruitment & Role Summary
PATH is entering an important new chapter. As the organization approaches its 50th anniversary, the PATH 2030 strategy is sharpening a focus on the places where PATH's partnerships, technical expertise, and country platforms can make the greatest difference. Philanthropy will be central to that next chapter – helping PATH mobilize more catalytic and flexible resources for practical, high‑impact solutions to urgent global health challenges.

The Head of Philanthropy will lead this next phase of individual and family giving. This role is about more than closing gifts. It is about building trusted relationships with donors who share PATH's commitment to health equity, while helping shape a philanthropy function that is relationship-centered, strategic, and closely connected to PATH's priorities.

Reporting to the Chief Global Health Programs Officer, this leader will work closely with executive leadership, program and regional teams, marketing and communications, and the Board to align philanthropic investment with PATH's evolving strategic priorities and the organization's most important impactful opportunities. The Head of Philanthropy leads a team of approximately six and shapes the team's structure, priorities, and ways of working to deliver the philanthropy strategy, with a dedicated program budget.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in major gifts, principal gifts, or high-net-worth fundraising, with a record of leading transformational asks and closing multiple seven-figure gifts
• A strong record of building or significantly strengthening a development function, including team leadership, systems improvement, and culture-setting.
• Fluency in the individual and family philanthropy landscape, including family offices, donor-advised funds, legacy giving structures, and impact-oriented giving.
• Command of the data side of modern fundraising: prospect research and wealth screening, moves management, CRM discipline, and the analytics needed to build and defend a pipeline forecast.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with technical and scientific colleagues and to translate complex R&D, product development, and health systems work into rigorous investment cases; scientific or…