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Manager, Institutional Partnerships

Global Fund For Women
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/24/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/23/2025

OVERVIEW 

Global Fund for Women’s vision is a world where movements for gender justice have transformed power and privilege for a few into equity and equality for all. We fund bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes.  

 

JOB SUMMARY 

The Manager of Institutional Partnerships plays a critical role in grants management to maintain and grow Global Fund for Women’s institutional partnerships, including private foundations, corporations, and multi-lateral funders. This position will focus on grants management, grant writing, prospect development, and stewardship support to enhance the organization’s mission and revenue goals. Reporting to the Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships, the Manager of Institutional Partnerships will drive proposal development, reporting, and strategic engagement in collaboration with the Grant Writer to achieve ambitious revenue goals.  


The ideal candidate is a skilled grants manager with a commitment to international gender justice issues, an ability to translate complex programmatic work into compelling funding opportunities and be highly skilled in working collaboratively across time zones and geographies and with people of diverse nationalities, identities, and cultures.  

 

Key Responsibilities: 

  • Collaborate with the Grant Writer in crafting, editing, and reviewing compelling proposals, donor reports, and other necessary materials in adherence with grant funder guidelines that reflect program priorities and advance revenue goals 
  • Manage a portfolio of institutional funders, focusing on securing renewals, upgrades, and new partnerships to meet annual revenue goals. 
  • Maintain oversight of donor deliverables for grants within portfolio, including tracking deliverables and timelines, coordinating across teams to secure updates and ensure continual progress, and updating fundraising staff and donors on progress, successes, challenges, and learnings as relevant. Keep all donor and grant records and files up to date. 
  • Work collaborative cross-team development of donor materials, including working closely with finance, programs, and impact and effectiveness staff to collect necessary information (project plans, evaluation plans, budgets, etc.) and synthesize in a compelling and accurate way for donor audiences. 
  • Collaborate with the Senior Director of Institutional Partnerships on donor strategies and meetings with key internal and external stakeholders with the goal of deepening connections to the organization’s mission. 
  • Act as a secondary point of contact with donors, providing updates and programmatic information or responding to other requests as needed. 
  • Assist in the maintenance of the Salesforce database, tracking and updating funding prospects, submission and reports deadlines, grant documentation, contact changes, and stewardship actions. 
  • Collaborate with other development team staff on areas such as corporate support, individual donor proposals, events, and the strengthening of donor tracking. 

 

KEY TALENTS / WAYS OF BEING: 

  • Must have a commitment to and possess knowledge of international gender justice issues. 
  • Must have a strong knowledge of grants management, fundraising, donor engagement, and/or education.  
  • Excellent written communication skills. 
  • The ability to work well with diverse groups of individuals. 
  • Must be able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously, problem solve, and have excellent follow-through. 
  • Ability to collaboratively engage with relationship managers to further Global Fund for Women’s mission, generating ideas, strategies, and fundraising efforts. 
  • Committed to upholding feminist values, including open communication and inclusiveness. 


KEY SKILLS / WAYS OF DOING: 

  • 5 years progressively responsible grants management experience with an emphasis on institutional fundraising with some combination of experience with private foundations, corporations, individual donors, and multi-lateral funders. 
  • Impeccable writing and editing skills; ability to translate complex ideas and strategies into clear, concise and compelling narratives. 
  • Experience in programmatic areas in the field is essential, ideally in international human rights issues and/or women’s rights. 
  • Proven experience with the grants management process from cultivation to post-award communication, tracking, and compliance. 


Salary Range of $85,000 - $120,000*

*This range is reflective of our high-market geo and will vary based on the candidate’s city and state of residence. 


Global Fund for Women is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, age, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other status protected by law. Qualified candidates including but not limited to women, people of color, disabled, and LGBTQI candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. The salary range reflects the San Francisco Bay Area salary scales and will be adjusted based on city, state, and/or country of the candidate so that we can ensure internal equity.

Salary : $85,000 - $120,000

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