Strategic Partnerships Officer

Splash is a global nonprofit organization founded in 2007 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. We deliver clean water, clean toilets, dignified menstrual health resources, and behavior change programs across public schools in East and Southern Africa. Our model works in partnership with governments and communities to transform systems, infrastructure, and behaviors, with a vision of global impact without Splash.

Our values guide everything we do:
People, Quality, Honesty, Joy, and Mistakes. Splash is committed to an inclusive and accessible workplace and provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants.

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• Job Title:
  
  Strategic Partnerships Officer
• Line Manager:
  Director of Development Operations & Donor Relations
• Location:
  
  Remote
• Employment Type:
  
  Full time
• Salary Range: $70,000 - $90,000. Salaries and benefits for different countries will vary in line with the location of the successful candidate and depending on experience.

Splash is seeking a highly organized, curious, and ambitious Strategic Partnerships Officer to strengthen our global Development function and support the growth of high-value partnerships and philanthropy.

This is a hands-on role spanning prospect research, partnership support, fundraising operations, data management, and senior external engagement. Working closely with the Chief Partnerships & Development Officer and the global Development team, the postholder will help identify and understand prospective partners, prepare leaders for important conversations, keep our fundraising pipeline and systems accurate, and ensure opportunities are followed through with discipline.

The role is designed as a growth opportunity for someone who wants to build a career in strategic partnerships, philanthropy and development operations, with the opportunity over time to take ownership of selected relationships and opportunities.

• Research prospective funders, philanthropists, foundations, family offices, companies, multilaterals and other strategic partners, translating research into concise, actionable intelligence.
• Prepare prospect profiles, meeting histories, relationship summaries, talking points, key questions and briefing materials for the CPDO and Development team.
• Map networks, relationships and potential connectors, and monitor funding and philanthropic trends relevant to Splash's strategy.
• Coordinate follow-up from priority donor and partner meetings so that actions, responsibilities and next steps are captured and progressed.
• Support selected proposals, concept notes, donor reports, due diligence and partnership materials by coordinating inputs and documentation across teams.

• Maintain accurate and timely fundraising records across Salesforce and Asana, including prospects, opportunities, engagement, tasks, correspondence and next steps.
• Maintain data hygiene by completing routine deduplication, cleaning inconsistent fields, validating gift and opportunity records, and monitoring data quality across both systems.
• Maintain accurate pipeline stages and cultivation-cycle movement, recording new research, engagement notes, wealth indicators, relationship insights and qualification information.
• Log stewardship touch points and recognition history so that donor interactions and relationship knowledge are retained as institutional memory in Salesforce.
• Run basic Salesforce reports, prepare data extracts and pipeline materials, and flag relationships or opportunities where follow-up or intervention is required.

• Coordinate global pipeline reviews: gather…