Senior Manager – WASH Partnerships
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Senior Manager managing Water for Good’s institutional donors, grants, and WASH partnerships. Representing the nonprofit in sector engagement and advancing sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services.
Responsibilities:
- Manage a portfolio of institutional funding partners and prospects as primary relationship manager
- Develop and maintain the institutional funding pipeline through prospect identification, qualification, cultivation, and stewardship
- Coordinate grant proposal development across departments
- Contribute to donor engagement strategies and stewardship plans
- Maintain accurate information on grant opportunities, commitments, and expected revenue for forecasting and planning
- Conduct donor and prospect research to identify partnership opportunities
- Review grant reports and support compliance with donor requirements
- Collaborate with program, finance, leadership, communications, and technical teams on proposals, agreements, evidence, learning, and impact
- Build and maintain relationships with peer organizations, research institutions, foundations, and sector networks
- Represent Water for Good at WASH sector events, webinars, conferences, and collaborative initiatives
- Support strategic partnerships advancing programmatic and fundraising objectives
- Contribute to publications, presentations, blogs, external content, and thought leadership
- Assist with presentations and materials for sector events and donor engagements
- Promote dissemination of research, learning, and best practices
- Contribute to knowledge management and organizational learning initiatives
- Support grants management and partnership development process improvements
- Participate in organizational planning, fundraising discussions, and departmental initiatives
- Mentor junior team members or interns as assigned
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Experience managing institutional funding partners and prospects
- Experience coordinating grant proposal development and grant management processes
- Experience conducting donor and prospect research
- Experience with donor engagement, stewardship, and relationship management
- Ability to collaborate with program, finance, communications, leadership, and technical teams
- Ability to represent the organization in WASH sector events, webinars, conferences, and collaborative initiatives
- Ability to maintain grant and donor information in CRM and project management systems
- Ability to contribute to publications, presentations, blogs, and other external content
- Ability to support compliance with donor requirements throughout the grant lifecycle
- Ability to mentor junior team members or interns as assigned
- Willingness to travel up to 6 weeks per year
Benefits:
- Up to 6 weeks of travel per year for donor engagement, sector representation, partnership development, and internal planning meetings
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