Director of Advancement

Global Water Center • North Charleston, SC

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About The Position

The Director of Advancement will lead Global Water Center’s next phase of fundraising growth by expanding and diversifying a still-emerging donor base. Reporting to the CEO, this leader will personally cultivate major donor relationships while building the strategy, systems, and board engagement rhythms needed for long-term scale. This is a builder opportunity for a strategic fundraiser who can translate strong relational access and sector credibility into sustainable growth. The work of Global Water Center is to equip leaders to create sustainable solutions to impact the lives of 2.2 billion people living without access to safely managed water. You’ll be a part of a growing organization, partnering with a passionate and remarkably talented team of people. This is a special opportunity to help shape the organization’s core sustainability strategy to meaningfully impact the global water crisis.

Requirements

• Relational & Emotional Intelligence – Builds trust quickly and reads people and team dynamics with discernment.
• Deeply listens and navigates founder dynamics, legacy relationships, and the tension between GWC/WM with wisdom and diplomacy.
• Moves fluidly across audiences with authenticity and integrity.
• Agile Driver – Moves ideas, relationships, and opportunities forward with speed and discernment in a fast-evolving environment.
• Brings clarity, momentum, and follow-through amid ambiguity, shifting priorities, and cross-functional complexity.
• Humble Confidence – Confidence without ego.
• Demonstrates the courage to make bold asks, hold independent perspective, and lead with conviction while remaining deeply collaborative and committed to shared outcomes.
• Executive Communicator – Translates vision into compelling communication across every setting.
• Uses written, verbal, donor, board, and day-to-day communication to strengthen alignment and build trust.
• Strategic Advancement Builder – Creates clarity from ambiguity, building focused strategy & structure that enable sustainable growth.
• Proven major donor success, including five, six, seven-figure asks

Responsibilities

• Personally cultivate major donor relationships
• Build the strategy, systems, and board engagement rhythms needed for long-term scale
• Translate strong relational access and sector credibility into sustainable growth
• Create clarity from ambiguity, building focused strategy & structure that enable sustainable growth
• Translate donor opportunity into disciplined pipeline momentum, scalable systems, and enduring partnerships

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed