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About the Role
The Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships joins an innovative and agile team at USEF, working to further build and evolve its capabilities to coordinate and support the organization’s results-driven partnerships and donor relations. This is an unparalleled opportunity to contribute to one of the country’s leading philanthropic organizations, in a critical decade for climate. The Senior Manager will be an external-facing member of the SP team and will support a variety of projects and assignments related to the cultivation and stewardship of USEF funders.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to developing and implementing innovative and comprehensive plans for cultivating philanthropic support by managing an existing portfolio of funders, prospects, and program issue areas.
- Support National, States and Regions, Strategic Communications, and Programs and Equity teams’ quarterly fundraising check-ins, including developing the agenda and tracking action/follow-up items.
- Build and manage an active pipeline that identifies and continually brings in new prospective funders to USEF.
- Support the maintenance of highly sophisticated relationships with partners by conducting or coordinating meaningful and regular contact with them through meetings, convenings, and other activities, ensuring funders’ long-term commitment to USEF and the climate and clean energy field as a whole.
- Proactively capture and track all follow-up issues and action items that emerge from external funder meetings and stakeholder convenings, as well as internal USEF meetings, independently and in collaboration with the SP team and other USEF colleagues.
- Support the SP team and USEF leadership in preparing for key meetings, including agenda preparation, scheduling support, and collaboration with the team to gather background research on current and prospective funders.
- Work directly with funders and prospects to engage them in program areas of interest.
- Create, edit, and maintain drafts of funder-facing collateral.
- Organize key funder events, briefings, forums, and meetings by creating invitation lists, drafting invitations, scheduling support, and tracking RSVPs.
- Serve or participate in cross-functional teams to improve and integrate the SP team into organizational processes, and implement new systems.
- Perform other relevant duties, as assigned.
Requirements
- Demonstrated relevant work experience, such as fundraising, partnerships, and relationship management in a nonprofit, foundation, or business setting.
- Demonstrated experience working with a diverse set of donors or partners.
- Experience communicating and collaborating with people from a wide diversity of backgrounds and cultures, including high-profile individuals and institutions.
- Experience working on multiple projects concurrently, with diverse stakeholders, and managing multiple priorities.
- Ability to anticipate the needs of team members and colleagues, donors, and other external stakeholders is essential.
- A commitment to contributing meaningfully to a workplace where equity and inclusion are core values.
- Proven oral and written communications skills.
- Ability to travel two to four times a year for three to four business days at a time.
Skills
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Google Drive
- Google Docs
- Google Sheets
- Box
- Salesforce
Location
- San Francisco, California
- Midwest
- Northeast
- Southeast
- Western regions
- U.S.
Work Type
- Full-time
- Remote-first
- Domestic travel
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- $175,500 (for candidates based in the metro areas of San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, San Diego, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Boston, or Sacramento)
- $157,500 (for candidates in other areas of the U.S.)
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Disability benefits
- Retirement benefits
- Paid time off
About the Company
- U.S. Energy Foundation’s (USEF) mission is to secure a clean and equitable energy future to tackle the climate crisis.
- USEF supports education and analysis to promote nonpartisan policy solutions that advance renewable energy and energy efficiency, while opening doors to greater innovation and productivity—growing the economy with dramatically less pollution.
- For more than 30 years, USEF has supported grantees to help educate policymakers and the general public about the benefits of a clean energy economy.
- USEF is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and our more than 100 staff members are based in locations throughout the Midwest, Northeast, Southeast, and Western regions, where they can best serve our programs, partners, operations, and other functions.
- USEF believes that a diverse workforce makes us a more effective organization and is essential for achieving a clean and equitable energy future.
Equal Opportunity
- We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.