Job Title:  Interim Philanthropic Partnerships Officer
Workband: SP
Location: Remote, with ability to collaborate across GMT, Central European Time (CET), and US time zones; travel required

Team: Interim Philanthropic Partnerships Officer in the present accountability structures is line managed by the Co-Director, Philanthropic Partnerships and is a member of the External Relations team

Type: 18-month term full-time

About Global Greengrants Fund:

Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) is a public charity registered in Boulder, Colorado, and London, UK, that supports grassroots activists and civil society organizations around the world working to address environmental and social justice in over 160 countries. GGF applies a participatory and decentralized model in making grants to grassroots groups through regional and thematic boards of advisors, global partner networks, and partner funds, to support grassroots environmental and social justice action. Global Greengrants Fund believes solutions to environmental harm and social injustice come from people whose lives are most impacted. Every day, our global network of people on the frontlines and donors comes together to support communities to protect their way of life and our planet. Because when local people have a say in the health of their food, water, and resources, they are forces for change.

GGF Transformative Journey: In 2026, Global Greengrants Fund is in the midst of a strategic journey in which we collectively center our values, including diversity, equity, and inclusion, and organizational care in our work, and to rediscover our identity and potential after 30 years of work. We have experienced tremendous growth over the past two years, and we are thoughtfully, yet rapidly, growing our annual grantmaking, our philanthropic advocacy, and our global partnerships and collaborations to new levels. An important aspect of this journey has involved strengthening the organization’s capacity to absorb funds and expand our grantmaking, but also to strengthen our strategic approaches, planning, financial sustainability, systems, and people and culture. We have also focused on creating a globally networked learning organization and transforming our organizational culture to be more collaborative and self-steering – we call this our transformative journey. The Interim Philanthropic Partnerships Officer role needs to understand the challenges and opportunities that come with these transformations and be able to remain flexible, steady, and adaptable while building and managing meaningful donor relationships and articulating the value of investing in grassroots and movement-led solutions.

Impact Areas: GGF employs a decentralised decision-making approach to our programmatic work, which is focused under three impact areas: Energy, Equity, and Earth. Our approach is led by a global network of regional and thematic Advisory Boards, Partner Funds, and Global Recommending partners comprising over 250 individual activists and expert advisors located in the countries we serve. This approach shifts decision-making to Global South partners through collective sharing of information, knowledge, and resources for learning, monitoring, and evaluating the impact of our collective work. To ensure we reach communities often overlooked or excluded by mainstream philanthropy, we employ a diversity of grantmaking and other resourcing approaches to strengthen the resilience and capabilities of organisations aligned to GGF’s programmatic priorities. This means that the work of narrative impact and influencing philanthropy is deeply tied to the framing of our impact areas and the work of our advisory network. 

Context for this Role

Global Greengrants Fund mobilizes resources for a decentralized, Global South–led advisory network and thousands of grassroots movement partners advancing environmental and climate justice in over 160 countries. In a stark funding climate,  marked by shrinking civic space, institutional risk aversion, and climate finance flowing primarily to large-scale and technocratic solutions, grassroots movements remain both underfunded and essential. GGF’s role extends beyond fundraising for our own grantmaking. We serve as a bridge between movements and philanthropy, influencing the broader climate justice funding ecosystem while channeling flexible resources to communities often excluded from mainstream funding.

This role provides critical operational and portfolio coordination support to strengthen revenue execution, donor tracking, and cross-team collaboration during a period of significant transition within the team. It helps maintain disciplined stewardship of a mixed portfolio of institutional foundations and major donors while supporting engagement in feminist climate funding spaces and donor collaboratives, helping ensure philanthropic resources continue to reach movements advancing movement-led climate justice and long-term democratic and climate resilience.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Portfolio Coordination & Donor Stewardship

• Manage and track a mixed portfolio of institutional foundations and select major donors, supporting consistent stewardship, strong relationship management, and progress toward revenue goals
• Maintain clear portfolio tracking, moves management, forecasting, and engagement planning in the CRM and related tools, including pledge tracking and year-over-year analysis
• Support donor strategy discussions by organizing information, tracking next steps, and helping clarify roles and responsibilities across the team
• Monitor progress toward fundraising and engagement goals through CRM dashboards and portfolio reporting, using data and feedback to refine engagement strategies
• Identify new prospects and growth opportunities using internal data and external research tools
• Draft and coordinate donor materials, including proposals, reports, briefing notes, research, and correspondence
• Help translate donor conversations and commitments into clear internal actions, documentation, and follow-up

2. Grant Stewardship and Reporting

• Coordinate proposal development and reporting processes across programs, finance, grants management, communications, and MEAL teams to ensure strong grant management and compliance across a multi-donor portfolio
• Track grant budgets, deliverables, timelines, and reporting requirements for assigned funders and maintain clear documentation of commitments and reporting schedules
• Support preparation and submission of narrative and financial reports, gathering inputs from relevant teams, and monitoring grant progress
• Work with communications, programs, and grant writers to prepare donor materials and updates that align with GGF’s strategic priorities
• Help translate monitoring, evaluation, and program insights into clear donor updates that combine evidence of impact with compelling stories from climate justice movements

3. Project, Event Coordination and Cross-Team Collaboration

• Support planning and logistics for key donor engagement moments and philanthropic learning opportunities, helping ensure strong preparation and alignment
• Coordinate preparation for priority donor meetings, trips, and events, ensuring clarity on timelines, roles, deliverables, and follow-up across teams
• Ensure strong preparation, briefing materials, and follow-up for in-person and virtual engagements, coordinating inputs across programs, grants management, finance, communications, and leadership as needed

• Track invitations, responses, and next steps to maintain disciplined donor engagement and consistent follow-through
• Help clarify roles and responsibilities across teams and maintain clear documentation of commitments related to donor relationships and grants
• Maintain accurate documentation of donor engagement in CRM and support team-wide portfolio tracking and planning processes

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Essential Values and Competencies

• Commitment to the guiding principles, mission, and values of the Global Greengrants Fund.
• Commitment to a value-based intersectional framework and its implications for organizational practices and principles of anti-oppression.
• Transparency and accountability.
• Critical thinking and analysis.
• Strategic risk management.
• Build strong interpersonal relations from the role – across both organizations (up, down, across, and externally).
• Influencing and resolving differences across boundaries.
• Self-awareness and insight.
• Collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented approach towards team members and the wider organization. 

Essential Experience & Skills

• Significant relevant experience in similar roles in fundraising for not-for-profit development, environmental, feminist, gender, Indigenous, human rights organizations, and/or funding organizations.
• Significant experience in major donor, individual giving, and/or institutional fundraising, with demonstrated success securing and stewarding five- and six-figure gifts (seven-figure experience preferred).
• Proven ability to manage and grow a portfolio of high-capacity donors through strategic cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Strong strategic acumen — able to move between relationship-building and data-informed planning, including forecasting and portfolio analysis.
• Excellent writing and communication skills, with experience drafting proposals, donor briefings, concept notes, and personalized communications.
• Comfort using CRM systems (Raiser’s Edge preferred) and leveraging data dashboards to track performance and inform strategy.
• Ability to analyze philanthropic trends and translate them into strategic insights for team planning.
• Experience supporting or curating donor events and high-level engagement spaces.
• Strong interpersonal skills, judgement, and emotional intelligence; ability to build trust with sophisticated donors while centering GGF’s values and movement-led approach.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a virtual, global, and multicultural environment.
• Experience working with diverse communities from multiple identities across the globe, in a virtual environment.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in other languages preferred.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills, judgment, and emotional intelligence
• Commitment to Global Greengrants Fund’s mission and values, including a grounding in feminist climate justice and solidarity-based philanthropy
• Strong expertise in the use of various software and a high level of computer literacy (MS Office Suite, Google Apps, instant messaging, and virtual team collaboration software such as Trello, Zoom, Slack, Asana, Raiser’s Edge, Smart Simple, Salesforce, or other donor management systems).

Desirable Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Experience

• Relevant lived experiences related to GGF’s work and community.
• Familiarity with fundraising workflows, donor stewardship, and campaign support
• Experience working across teams, such as finance and grants management
• Experience working within global social justice, feminist, climate, or movement-led organizations, with a strong understanding of power, equity, and justice-centered ways of working.