Director of Development (Seattle

Global Partnerships (GP) is a non-profit impact-first fund manager dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the greatest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors. GP believes that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.

GP supports social enterprises serving people living in poverty, primarily in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. We ended fiscal year 2025 with a portfolio of over $180 million in outstanding investments to 86 social enterprise partners. Since inception, our funds’ investments have positively impacted more than 39 million lives.

Our mission-driven team operates primarily from Seattle, Bogotá, and Nairobi. Learn more balpartnerships.org.

ROLE OVERVIEW

GP seeks a highly relational, highly organized Director of Development to help grow and care for our base of aligned investors and donors, with particular focus on high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs). This role is for a confident, values-aligned leader who builds trust easily, communicates with clarity and warmth, learns complex work quickly, enjoys process-driven environments, and takes pride in moving relationships forward with discipline and care.

Reporting to the Vice President of Investor Relations, the Director will strengthen how GP manages relationships across the full supporter journey: from early interest, to first commitment, to ongoing stewardship and growth. The Director will both support senior relationship managers – including the CEO, Chief Capital and Impact Officer, Vice President of Investor Relations, and board champions – and directly manage their own portfolio of supporters and prospects.

In both capacities, the Director will help ensure that relationships are well understood, thoughtfully advanced, carefully stewarded, and positioned to grow over time.

The Director of Development is a new role at GP, created at a pivotal moment as we seek to diversify and materially expand our base of investors and donors. A typical day could include preparing an executive for an HNWI meeting; joining a second or follow-up conversation with a prospective investor; drafting warm, compliant next-step communication; updating an account strategy in the CRM;

nudging a relationship manager on a promised follow-up; checking in with a current investor; and leading an internal planning meeting for an upcoming prospect gathering or supporter trip.

Requirements

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Build trusted relationships with HNWIs, donors, and mission-aligned investors, helping them understand GP's mission, impact-first model, and philanthropic and investment on-ramps.
• Manage and grow an assigned portfolio of relationships; identify opportunities for renewal, increased engagement, or additional participation across GP's capital spectrum.
• Participate in second and follow-up meetings with sophisticated prospects and supporters; listen well, assess motivations and decision dynamics, answer questions, and recommend the right next step.
• Work alongside GP's CEO, Chief Capital and Impact Officer, Vice President of Investor Relations, and board members in shared relationships, in some cases taking on primary ownership over time.
• Serve as a strategic partner to internal relationship managers by clarifying account goals, meeting objectives, next steps, owners, and timelines.
• Develop and maintain account strategies that capture relationship history, motivations, giving or investment pathways, decision dynamics, risks, and recommended actions.
• Prepare concise executive…