Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) - Board of Directors
About The Position
Engineers Without Borders USA (EWB-USA) is seeking new members for its Board of Directors for terms beginning in 2027. EWB-USA partners with communities to build essential infrastructure like clean water systems, bridges, and solar energy, and has delivered over 350 projects since 2002. The organization is currently scaling its Purposeful Partnership Model, which emphasizes community leadership, local leadership, long-term sustainability, and measurable impact. The board is looking for leaders who can help drive philanthropic growth, open doors to capital and partnerships, and mobilize networks to advance EWB-USA's mission. Board members are expected to make a significant personal philanthropic commitment and actively engage their networks to support the organization.
Requirements
- Strength in philanthropic fundraising and major donor networks: experience activating five and six-figure gifts, running capital campaigns, or working closely with foundations and high-net-worth donors.
- Strength in senior executive leadership: C-suite or VP-level experience with a track record of organizational growth.
- Led at a senior level.
- Demonstrated ability to mobilize financial support for a cause.
- Willingness to make a personally meaningful philanthropic commitment.
- Willingness to actively engage networks in support of EWB-USA’s mission.
- Ability to open doors to capital, partnerships, and new audiences.
Nice To Haves
- Perspectives from outside the engineering sector.
- Perspectives from communities that are underrepresented in leadership of global development organizations.
Responsibilities
- Ambassadorship and fundraising: Make a personally meaningful annual philanthropic commitment to EWB-USA.
- Actively engage personal and professional networks to introduce EWB-USA to prospective donors, partners, and supporters.
- Represent EWB-USA publicly and serve as a champion for the organization’s mission and impact.
- Participate in donor cultivation and stewardship activities.
- Governance: Attend and actively participate in quarterly Board meetings.
- Serve on at least one Board Committee, contributing between meetings.
- Provide strategic oversight of organizational policies, finances, and operating plans.
- Exercise fiduciary responsibility and oversight of organizational risk.
Benefits
- Opportunity to join a working board that takes governance seriously.
- Opportunity to be part of an exciting chapter in the organization's history.
- Opportunity to make a difference in building a better world.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
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