Director of Grants and Foundations
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Director of Grants and Foundations leading institutional fundraising for All Hands & Hearts. Responsible for managing relationships and proposals across foundations and state funders.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the day-to-day delivery of AH&H’s institutional fundraising plan across foundations, state government funders, and NGO intermediaries and re-granters.
- Personally lead the end-to-end proposal lifecycle — from concept notes and letters of inquiry through full proposals, applications, and post-submission follow-up.
- Maintain rigorous compliance, reporting, and stewardship discipline across the portfolio.
- Lead relationship management for current and prospective institutional funders through highly personalized engagement strategies.
- Build the operational backbone of an institutional fundraising function ready to scale alongside AH&H.
- Manage and develop one direct report (Grant Manager).
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of progressive experience in institutional fundraising, grants management, foundation relations, or proposal writing — ideally within the humanitarian, international NGO, disaster response, or broader social impact sector.
- Demonstrated experience personally writing and submitting successful five-, six-, and (ideally) seven-figure grant proposals to US foundations.
- The right person for this role is a do’er — independent, proactive, structured, and tech-savvy.
- Excellent written communication skills in US English.
- Genuinely tech-savvy and curious about new tools.
Benefits:
- Flexible working hours
- Unlimited PTO
- Opportunity to travel to program
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance plans (US Employees)
- Flex Spending Account (US Employees)
- 401K with safe harbor match for U.S. staff (US Employees)
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