Director of Philanthropy & Fund Development

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director of Philanthropy provides strategic leadership for Action Canada's fundraising program, with a focus on building long-term, sustainable philanthropic revenue and strengthening organization-wide engagement in fundraising and donor relationships.

The Director is responsible for developing and implementing Action Canada's fundraising strategy, including strategic oversight of government grant opportunities, while cultivating and managing a portfolio of major donors, foundations, and philanthropic partners. They will oversee all aspects of donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, forecasting, and fundraising operations, ensuring that revenue development align with Action Canada's mission, strategic priorities, and anti-racism and anti-oppression framework.

As a member of the Senior Management Team, the Director will collaborate across departments to build a strategic, integrated organizational culture of philanthropy and fund development, establish and maintain strong relationships with donors and supporters, and identify opportunities to diversify and grow organizational revenue.

Action Canada for Sexual Health and Rights is a progressive, pro-choice charitable organization committed to advancing and upholding sexual and reproductive rights in Canada and globally. To achieve our mission, Action Canada engages in health promotion, legal and policy advocacy, campaigns, and movement-building.

We believe in a world where every person controls their sexuality, reproduction, gender expression, and health. In our fight for sexual and reproductive rights for all, Action Canada challenges the systems that create unequal access to information, health care, and rights.

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Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities include, but are not limited to:

Strategic Leadership

• Develop and implement a fundraising strategy aligned with Action Canada's strategic priorities and revenue diversification plan and fundraising audit conducted in 2025.
• Establish annual fundraising goals, revenue targets, budgets, forecasts, and performance measures.
• Monitor and evaluate fundraising performance, using data and insights to continuously improve strategies and results.
• Identify and action opportunities to diversify revenue through major gifts, foundations, institutional fundraising, corporate partnerships, annual giving, planned giving, and other philanthropic initiatives.
• Oversee and support institutional grant fundraising by identifying and assessing opportunities and coordinating the development of submissions.
• Participate as an active member of the Senior Management Team.
• Provide strategic fundraising advice to the Executive Director and Board of Directors.
• Contribute to organization-wide planning and decision-making.

Major Gifts & Donor Relations

• Build, manage, and grow a portfolio of major donors and prospects through all stages of the donor lifecycle.
• Develop and execute individualized donor engagement strategies, and lead donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship in partnership with the Executive Director, Board members, and other organizational leaders.
• Identify prospective major donors through annual program, prospect research, and relationship mapping.
• Conduct prospect research on current and prospective individual, corporate, and foundation donors. Identify philanthropic interests, giving capacity, and relationship opportunities.
• In collaboration with the Donor Relations Officer, develop proposals, briefing materials, cases for support, donor reports, and stewardship materials.
• Maintain strong relationships with existing donors while identifying opportunities to deepen engagement or grow philanthropic opportunities.
• Ensure donor activity is documented within the organization's CRM.
• Lead annual fundraising planning and campaign strategy.
• Collaborate with the Communications team to align fundraising campaigns with organizational messaging.
• Ensure fundraising activities comply with CRA regulations and organizational policies.

Funder & Partner Stewardship

• Manage relationships with foundations, major donors, corporations, and other philanthropic funders.
• Coordinate funding agreements, reporting requirements, and stewardship commitments.
• Collaborate with program and finance teams to ensure timely reporting.
• Identify renewal and expansion opportunities with current funders.
• Support proposal development and funding…