Director of Growth & Giving

The role

You will lead creative pitch development and technical proposal writing to mobilize over $30m annually in charitable capital. You will manage the cultivation of a pipeline including high net worth individuals, foundations, family offices, and government funding programs.

What you will do

• Craft funding pitches and beautiful decks tailored to philanthropic prospects
• Write technical, data-driven proposals incorporating climate technology impact
• Design systems to solicit data and stories from different teams
• Develop modeling for new capital recycling programs
• Manage inbound philanthropic, institutional, corporate and other funder prospects
• Build a segmented database of funder pipeline and own the sales cycle
• Partner with Communications, Events and Creative teams to integrate donor messaging
• Ensure seamless handoff for donor stewardship, compliance and grant reporting
• Collaborate with Investment and Finance teams to build grant budgets and structure recoverable grants and PRIs

Required qualifications

• Success in pitch development and proposal writing for small gifts and large seven- and eight-figure grants
• Deep experience and knowledge of climate technology, impact investing, and/or the environment sector
• Ability to build deal pipelines in Hubspot, budgets in Excel, and presentations in Google Slides

Nice to have

• Experience in both nonprofit and for-profit / management consulting
• Familiarity structuring recoverable grants and Program-Related Investments with foundations and DAFs
• Ability to mix technical rigor and subject matter mastery with an eye for design

Benefits

• Professional development stipend
• Three weeks paid time off

Before you apply

• Must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa

About the company

Elemental Impact is a nonprofit investor with 17 years of experience advancing innovative technologies with deep environmental and local impact. It works to address market failures for first-of-a-kind and early commercial projects by providing catalytic capital and specialized expertise.