Interim Philanthropic Partnerships Officer
Application Closing Date: May 3, 2026, at 23:00 MT
Location: Remote/Global with a preference for candidates from the global majority countries, with the ability to collaborate across GMT, Central European Time (CET), and US time zones (noting that, as this is a GGF Inc. hire, we are unable to consider UK-based candidates at this time); travel required. You must have the legal right to work where you are located.
Term: Full-time – 40 hours a week (exempt) for a maximum 18-month term
Organisation: Global Greengrants Fund
Salary: Salaries at Global Greengrants Fund are dependent on applicable salary scales, internal pay policies, including equity considerations, and budget. Due to the ways in which salary negotiations perpetuate existing structural inequities, GGF has moved away from salary negotiation processes for any candidate. We will make our best offer, and it will be the same regardless of the candidate. The gross annual salary for this position for someone based in the US as per workband SP is $115,000.
Benefits: Group medical and life insurance. Paid time off (20 vacation days, 15 sick days, four personal days, and up to 11 paid public holidays). Contribution to retirement savings. Remote work and flexible work arrangements.
About Global Greengrants Fund:
Global Greengrants Fund (GGF) supports grassroots activists and civil society organisations around the world working to address environmental and social justice in over 160 countries. GGF applies a participatory and decentralised 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 ways 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.
Global Greengrants Fund comprises two organisations located in the USA, Global Greengrants Fund Inc. (established in 1993), and Global Greengrants Fund UK (established in 2012). The two organisations work closely together with a shared grantmaking programme and strategic collaboration at the senior leadership level.
In 2026, Global Greengrants Fund is amid a transformative journey in which we collectively centre our values, including diversity, equity, and inclusion, and organisational care in our work, and rediscover our identity and potential after 30 years of work. The Interim Philanthropic Partnership Officer 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.
Global Greengrants Fund mobilizes resources for a decentralized, Global South-led advisory network and thousands of grassroots partners advancing environmental and climate justice in more than 160 countries. In a challenging funding landscape—marked by shrinking civic space, institutional risk aversion, and climate finance flowing largely to large-scale solutions—grassroots movements remain both essential and underfunded. GGF works to bridge movements and philanthropy and help shift and mobilize the broader climate justice funding ecosystem, while channeling flexible resources to communities often excluded from mainstream funding.
The Role:
Global Greengrants Fund is seeking a highly organized and mission-driven professional who will collaborate across teams and our global network to strengthen philanthropic partnerships and support resource mobilization for grassroots climate and environmental justice movements. This role plays an important part in coordinating donor relationships, tracking funding commitments, coordinating projects and events, and supporting cross-team collaboration while supporting engagement in feminist climate funding spaces and donor collaboratives to ensure resources reach movement partners around the world.
This role supports the coordination and stewardship of a portfolio of institutional foundations and major donors. This includes providing support to planning and logistics for key donor engagement moments and philanthropic learning opportunities, helping ensure strong preparation and alignment. The role coordinates preparation for priority donor meetings, trips, and events, ensuring clarity on timelines, roles, deliverables, and follow-up across teams, ensuring strong preparation and follow-up for in-person and virtual engagements, coordinating inputs across programs, grants management, finance, communications, and leadership as needed
The role helps ensure that donor engagement, revenue tracking, and reporting processes are well-organized and aligned across teams with clear roles and responsibilities; that invitations are tracked and documentation for donor engagement (including commitments related to donor relationships and grants) in CRM is maintained accurately, ensuring disciplined donor engagement and consistent follow through. By maintaining strong systems and supporting collaboration between Programs, External Relations, and Finance, the role helps ensure philanthropic resources continue to reach movements advancing climate justice and long-term democratic and climate resilience.
The Candidate Profile:
The successful candidate will have demonstrated experience in fundraising, institutional partnerships, and grant management, including coordinating portfolios of institutional foundations and major donors. They will have experience supporting the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of five- and six-figure gifts and contributing to portfolio growth and revenue goals. They will demonstrate strong organizational and project management skills, with experience coordinating proposals, reports, and grant deliverables across teams. They will bring strong writing, research, and communication skills and experience preparing donor materials such as proposals, briefings, reports, and strategic communications.
They will have demonstrated experience in providing support to planning and logistics coordination for donor engagement moments and philanthropic learning opportunities (including coordinating and preparing for priority donor meetings, trips, and events). They have experience ensuring clarity on timelines, roles, deliverables, and following up across teams; ensuring strong preparation and follow-up for in-person and virtual engagements, coordinating inputs across programs, grants management, finance, communications, and leadership as needed.
They will have significant experience working with CRM systems—ideally Raiser’s Edge—and using data and portfolio analysis to support planning and track engagement.
Personal Characteristics:
The successful candidate will be highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage complex and multi-stakeholder processes with clarity and consistency. They will bring strong interpersonal skills, sound judgment, and emotional intelligence, with the ability to build trust and collaborate effectively across a virtual, globally distributed team.
They will be proactive and solutions-oriented, able to translate donor conversations into clear internal actions and follow-through. They will demonstrate adaptability and comfort working in dynamic environments, balancing multiple priorities with care and accountability.
They will demonstrate a commitment to Global Greengrants Fund’s mission and values, including a grounding in feminist climate justice and solidarity-based philanthropy. Existing networks within climate or feminist philanthropy and experience working within global social justice or movement-led organizations would be an advantage.
The right candidate will understand Global Greengrants Fund’s core values and be committed to the guiding principles and mission of Global Greengrants Fund, and ensure they uphold them in how they carry out the responsibilities of the role.
How to Apply:
Applications need to be submitted through GGF’s job platform by May 3rd, 2026, at 23:00 MT. Applications may be reviewed on a rolling basis, and we may close this vacancy early if we receive an extraordinarily high volume of applications. We encourage interested candidates to submit their applications at the earliest opportunity.
To apply and view the full Job Description, please click here. As part of your application, you will be required to upload a current CV and complete a required questionnaire within the Rippling platform. This replaces the need for a traditional cover letter and helps us understand your experience and interest in the role. We encourage candidates to share their authentic voice, perspective, and experience throughout the application process, which isn’t always possible through AI-generated responses. Please submit all materials in English.
If you’re intrigued by this position but feel like you don’t fit the profile precisely, please still apply. You can ask questions or seek further information to feel able to apply by writing to careers@greengrants.org.
We thank all those who apply. Those selected for interviews will be contacted directly.
Women, trans, non-binary, and intersex persons; persons with disabilities and other candidates from historically oppressed groups, specifically Black, Brown, and other people of color, and people of all ages, are strongly encouraged to apply for this position.
Global Greengrants Fund is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Global Greengrants Fund are based on organisational needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, nationality, social or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, physical, mental or sensory disability, health, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression.
Apply Here: https://www.greengrants.org/careers/interim-philanthropic-partnership-officer/