Director - Foundation Relations

November 22

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Rewiring America

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11 - 50 employees

🤝 Non-profit

⚡ Energy

🌍 Social Impact

Description

• Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. • We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. • This role is an individual contributor, get ready to roll up your sleeves and dig in alongside other members of the Investment team. • The Director, Foundation Relations is principally responsible for identifying institutional funding opportunities, managing the grant application process, building and strengthening relationships with organizational funders, and communicating grant progress. • The Director, Foundation Relations plays a pivotal role in co-creating fundraising strategies for the organization and securing funding for Rewiring America’s mission.

Requirements

• Develop and maintain a plan to solicit, apply for, secure, and fulfill institutional fundraising grants. • Research prospective funders and advise on strategies to motivate significant gifts that align with funder priorities. • Serve as the lead on foundation grants to Rewiring America. Prepare, submit, and track proposals, and ensure that the objectives of grants and funding agreements are met and reported according to appropriate deadlines. • Track trends and opportunities to ensure that the case for support expresses Rewiring’s unique value proposition and considers donor/funder priorities. • Serve as Relationship Manager to high-value Institutional funders and prospects. • Support the VP Investment in supporting her existing portfolio of approximately 30 institutional funders who have collectively pledged over $60 million to Rewiring America. • Ensure consistent and meaningful communications with investors to facilitate strong relationship-building and stewardship. • Assist in planning and execution of funder events. • Track all institutional revenue and collaborate with members of the Investment and Finance teams on budgeting, reporting, and audits. • Contribute to the development of the Investment Team's annual fundraising plan. • Create departmental policies, procedures, and workflows.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). • 100% employer-paid short term and long term disability insurance and life insurance policies. • Employees automatically receive a 6% safe-harbor employer contribution to their 401k retirement plan, regardless of their own contributions. • Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. • Full Time Employees will receive 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 24 hours of volunteer leave annually. • Employees will also receive 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year (13 days during Presidential and Congressional elections). • We have an office closure between Christmas and New Year. • Regular, full-time employees and part-time employees are eligible to take up to sixteen weeks of parental leave, in all cases related to birth, adoption, or foster care starting from the first day of employment. • We offer access to professional development resources including up to $2000 per calendar year to use towards your growth and development.