Senior Foundations Manager

Senior Foundations Manager

NRDC (the Natural Resources Defense Council) works to safeguard the Earth, its people, its plants and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. NRDC combines the power of more than 3 million members and online activists with the expertise of some 800 policy advocates, lawyers, scientists, and communication experts to confront the climate crisis, protect nature, ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities.

As an international nonprofit environmental organization, NRDC is working to address the world's most urgent environmental challenges, and advance innovative, science-based, and enforceable solutions.

Since our founding in 1970, NRDC has helped craft and deliver many of America's foundational environmental laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. Today, we continue to lead in advancing and defending strong environmental protections at the local, state, federal and international levels, as well as through the marketplace. Our team works across the United States and around the world, from offices in Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., as well as in Beijing, London, and New Delhi (a subsidiary of NRDC India Pvt.

Ltd.).

Supported by our members and online activists, NRDC is driving impactful solutions that confront the climate crisis, defend nature and safeguard public health across Asia, Africa, and the Americas. At NRDC, we believe lasting change happens when people bring their talent, passion, and expertise together for a common purpose: to build a cleaner, healthier, and more resilient world.

NRDC is seeking a Senior Foundations Manager to work with our Development team in one of our U.S. based offices.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

• Manage relationships with a portfolio of approximately 50 foundation donors and prospects to secure revenue including: developing engagement strategies, managing proposal and reporting processes, and providing updates, briefings and other engagement opportunities
• In collaboration with development research staff and others, identify and cultivate foundation prospects for specific programs and NRDC overall
• Working closely with program staff, writers, finance and grants management staff, oversee preparation and delivery of proposals, concepts, reports and other materials to foundations
• Orchestrate and coordinate interactions with foundations across the organization, serving as a key partner to leadership and staff
• Stay current on foundation trends, news, and priorities and incorporate into fundraising plans
• Maintain up-to-date records and follow organizational and departmental processes, including moves management systems
• Collaborate with all Development stakeholders including writers, grant managers, researchers, principal and major gifts, donor systems, and donor relations teams
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting all deadlines

The above list of duties is not comprehensive but generally demonstrates the types of matters under this position's responsibility. Other duties may be assigned.

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required
• 4-7 years' experience in raising funds from foundations
• Experience with Salesforce a plus
• Demonstrated experience closing six- and seven figure gifts

Skills, Abilities, Competencies

• Exceptional analytical skills and ability to develop creative engagement strategies in collaboration with program staff and Development and Executive leadership
• Exemplary interpersonal skills and ability to maintain productive external and internal relationships
• Superior writing skills and demonstrated ability to develop proposals, reports and other donor-facing materials, including budgets and financial reports
• Strong organizational skills; ability to prioritize, delegate, and simultaneously oversee multiple streams of work to meet overlapping deadlines
• Detail-oriented with high standards of excellence
• Knowledge of environmental issues and environmental foundations preferred
• Ability to travel domestically (NRDC U.S. based offices, foundation meetings, approx. 10% annually)
• Commitment to NRDC's mission, values, and DEI principles

NRDC is committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, both in our work and in our workplace. We believe that celebrating and actively welcoming diverse voices and perspectives is essential to solving the planet's most pressing environmental problems, and we encourage applications from candidates whose identities have been historically under-represented in the environmental movement.

We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate in hiring or employment on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or…