Senior Associate Director, Philanthropic Partnerships ClimateWorks Foundation

Climate Works Foundation is a catalyst for accelerating climate progress, driving bold solutions that benefit people and the planet. We connect funders and implementing organizations worldwide to identify and scale transformative solutions across sectors and geographies, achieving faster, greater impact together. Since 2008, Climate Works has granted over $2 billion to more than 850 grantees across 50 countries, working with over 80 funders.

• Scaling solutions: Our collaborative Global Programs — focused on solution areas including carbon dioxide removal, cooling, industry, transportation, and more — produce results that are bending the greenhouse gas emissions curve. From the U.S. to Europe, China, Brazil, and beyond, we collaborate with a diverse community of funders, NGOs, and climate leaders to accelerate just and equitable climate solutions.

• Guiding and supporting funders: Our Global Services provide funders with comprehensive resources to assess, build, evolve, and execute high-impact climate-giving strategies. Our Global Intelligence service equips funders and the climate community with climate insights to pinpoint opportunities for impact and philanthropic insights to help identify investment priorities. We facilitate Global Collaborations that enable funders to increase individual and collective impact. Our Global Grantmaking services enable funders to invest in climate solutions around the world.

• Fostering collaboration, exploration, and growth: Our collaborative approach and commitment to learning ensures that we continuously explore innovative ideas and emerging opportunities — all with the aim of scaling philanthropy-supported initiatives to help end the climate crisis.

As experts in climate science, public policy, economic and social analysis, and strategic philanthropy, Climate Works’ staff understands the multi‑faced challenges and opportunities of climate change. We are researchers, strategists, collaborators, and grantmakers who care passionately about our mission. For more information, please visit www.climateworks.org.

Led by the Vice President, Philanthropic Partnerships, the Philanthropic Partnerships team at Climate Works leads fundraising for the organization and supports efforts to generate funder interest in climate philanthropy. The Philanthropic Partnerships team, in collaboration with departments across Climate Works, works to build meaningful and strategic relationships with donors in climate and adjacent sectors to support top climate solutions and introduce new donors to opportunities to invest in climate.

The team collaborates closely with Climate Works Executive, Programs, Finance departments, external partners, and regional climate foundations.

The Senior Associate Director, Philanthropic Partnerships (Senior AD) will join the Philanthropy team of frontline fundraisers working to advance Climate Works’ mission and philanthropic goals. This position will be responsible for leading donor strategies and activities for a portfolio of programs, providing direct supervision for frontline fundraisers, building meaningful relationships with donors, and supporting the department’s work to build and maintain a strong pipeline of new prospective donors.

The Senior AD will be a relationship-centered fundraising professional with a proven track record of closing significant gifts, ability to manage a portfolio of programs and translate technical programmatic work into compelling narratives for donors, and experience supervising, coaching, and developing staff. This position reports to the Director, Philanthropic Partnerships and will collaborate with colleagues across Climate Works and external…