Managing Director, Institutional, Global, and Corporate Philanthropy

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

125d • $230,000 - $250,000

About The Position

NRDC is a non-profit environmental advocacy organization. We use law, science, and the support of 3.1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure the rights of all people to clean air, clean water, and healthy communities. NRDC was founded in 1970 and our people helped write some of America's bedrock environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and many of the implementing regulations. Today, our team of more than 700 lawyers, scientists, economists, policy advocates, communications experts, and others work across the United States and the globe from our offices in Beijing; Chicago; New Delhi; New York; San Francisco; Santa Monica; and Washington, D.C. NRDC is seeking a Managing Director, Institutional, Global and Corporate Philanthropy to work with the Development Team in any of our U.S. based offices.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree required, masters degree in business, policy, or applicable degree preferred.
• 15 years’ experience in professional philanthropy with at least 6-8 years of direct experience leading an institutional and/or corporate philanthropy fundraising team for organizations with a $100m+/year operating budget.
• At least 10 years of senior management/organizational leadership experience is required.
• Proven track record of securing significant grants from foundations and corporations.
• Direct experience with Salesforce preferred.

Nice To Haves

• Overseas fundraising and environmental NGO experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that the team meets or exceeds its budgeted and growing fundraising goal, the baseline of which is over $45M for FY26.
• Work closely with NRDC leadership, Advocacy staff and the IGCP team to develop integrated strategic fundraising annual plans for priority work.
• Develop strategies for engaging NRDC’s President and CEO and other leadership staff to solicit grants from major U.S. and overseas foundations and corporations.
• Grow the prospect pipeline for institutional funders by identifying new prospects as well as maximizing revenue from existing funders.
• Develop and execute on innovative plans for new avenues of overseas funding with a focus on EU countries and the United Kingdom.
• Provide strategic leadership to the Senior Director of Global Foundation Strategies, Director of US Foundation Strategies, Senior Director of Foundation Prospecting and Stewardship Strategy and a team Coordinator.
• Oversee the Foundations team in projecting, tracking, and reforecasting grants included in the team’s annual revenue budget.
• Collaborate with all Development stakeholders including writers, Grant Management, Principal and Major Gifts, Donor System and more.
• Integrate, advise, and collaborate, where appropriate, on Principal Gifts and Foundations prospects.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Excellent benefits
• Supportive working environment
• Salary range is $230,000 to $250,000
• Hybrid work model with 8 days in the office per month

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees