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Summary

The Officer, Strategic Foundation Partnerships (SFP), will cultivate and steward a portfolio of existing relationships with US-based philanthropic foundations. You will independently manage the entire partnership cycle from strategy development to developing successful proposals. Liaising with both internal teams and external partners, you will position Save the Children to grow existing relationships and to increase revenue to enable greater impact for children. Reporting to the Senior Managing Director, SFP, you will also collaborate with senior members of the SFP team to support with large, strategic foundation partnerships. Not limited to account management of existing donors, you will also identify and develop new business opportunities to open new funding relationships with foundation donors.

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

Independently lead portfolio of existing foundation donors (60%)

• Independently develop strategies to help grow and enrich Save the Children’s partnerships with foundation donors currently supporting the organization.
• Serve as the primary contact with foundation program officers.
• Coordinate closely with Save the Children colleagues in programs, finance, grants & contracts and marketing & communications.
• Liaise with the Impact Communications team to draft concept notes, LOIs, grant proposals and reports.
• Establish and maintain a quick and steady pace of communications and track progress utilizing our customer relationship management system (BBEC).
• Provide quality management of existing donor commitments.
• Submit accurate and timely reports to donors.

Collaborate with SFP colleagues to help steward select existing foundation donors (20%)

• Support senior members of the SFP team in the cultivation and stewardship of large-scale foundation donors (i.e., gathering and developing materials to submit to donors, assisting in proposal development or reporting, joining donor calls or serving as secondary solicitor as assigned).

Independently lead on new business opportunities (15%)

• Identify new foundation prospects and develop strategies to seek support for Save the Children’s global and domestic programs.

Special projects (5%)

• Perform special projects and represent the SFP team on topics related to the strategic efforts of the unit.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, plus at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Project management experience with proven ability to work across a large, multi-faceted team
• Demonstrated ability to develop and steward strong partnerships with significant client-facing experience
• Demonstrated organization skills with keen attention to detail; proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Adaptive to change
• Self-starter with problem solving mentality
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite, Zoom, and Teams
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with individuals and teams at all levels, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated commitment to fostering and maintaining an environment of diversity, inclusion, and belonging.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with corporations and/or in a non-profit fundraising role
• Experience managing product donations and knowledge of key players and industry trends
• Demonstrated ability to write and communicate persuasively, clearly, and concisely, to synthesize information from multiple sources into a single, effective fundraising document
• Experience using Blackbaud CRM and/or Salesforce
• Knowledge of poverty issues within the United States and globally

Compensation

Save the Children is offering the following salary ranges for this position, dependent on candidate location:

• Geo 1 - NY Metro, DC, and other locations with labor costs significantly above national average: Target Salary for this position is $84,150 – $94,050 base salary
• Geo 2 - Locations around the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $76,500 – $85,500 base salary
• Geo 3 - Locations significantly below the US National Labor Cost Average: Target Salary for this position is $68,850 – $76,950 base salary

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, base salary of internal peers, business sector, and geographic location. Employee may be eligible for an incentive program. Save the Children also offers paid vacation, accrued at least 12 days a year, depending on paygrade and length of service, paid safety and wellness leave of at least 1 day per month worked for a full time employee which is pro rata reduced for employees working less than a full time schedule, and at least 10 paid holidays a year. Employees may be eligible for additional bonus compensation. Save the Children US also offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, a retirement savings plan with employer contribution, family leave, paid parental/adoption leave of 60 days, commuter benefits, paid caregiver leave days, 1 paid volunteer day a year, paid critical child illness leave days, dress for your day, and much more.

Why you should join the Save the Children Team…

Save the Children US offers outstanding benefits that include health, dental, vision and life insurances, short-term and long-term disability coverage, an Employee Assistance Program, 403(b), generous vacation, personal sick leave, family leave, parental/adoption leave, commuter benefits, dress for your day, and much more.

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About Save the Children

No matter your role when you join Save the Children, each and every day you will challenge yourself to devote your skills, talent and expertise to changing the world for kids. It’s an ambitious goal, and a meaningful one no matter how you see yourself professionally: an accountant, a writer, a data analyst, a teacher, a driver, a designer, or any one of the hundreds of dozens of roles we’re looking to fill every day.

You see, Save the Children believes every child deserves a future. In the United States and around the world, we give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. We do whatever it takes for children – every day and in times of crisis – transforming their lives and the future we share.

Our work for children and their families requires that we commit—at every opportunity—to work together to identify and dismantle persistent systemic and structural racism, inequality, and any other forms of discrimination in this country and beyond. As an anti-racist organization, Save the Children will not tolerate discrimination in any form—in our employment practices, amongst our staff, in our leadership or toward the people we serve. We stand in solidarity with all people to fight for equal rights, justice, inclusion, and belonging.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, ancestry, sexual orientation, national origin, age, handicap, disability, marital status, or status as a veteran. Save the Children complies with all applicable laws.

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse. In addition, it is Save the Children’s policy to create and proactively maintain an environment that aims to prevent and deter any actions and omissions, whether deliberate or inadvertent, that place children at the risk of any kind of child abuse. All our representatives are expected to conduct themselves in a manner consistent with this commitment and obligation.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.