Senior Manager, Institutional Giving

About the role

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) and its affiliated 501(c)(4) organization, Care in Action, seek a relationship-driven, systems-oriented Senior Manager, Institutional Giving to play a central role in advancing our institutional fundraising strategy.

Responsibilities

• Manage an assigned portfolio of institutional funders and prospects across entities, including private foundations and government agencies, ensuring timely and accurate reporting, proposal submissions, and stewardship.
• Draft and edit fundraising materials, including proposals, reports, and other funder-facing communications, translating program work into clear, compelling narratives.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of an annual engagement calendar to support strategic, coordinated outreach across portfolios.
• Collaborate with key programmatic leaders and support their engagement with funders, including preparing materials and tracking interactions.
• Conduct regular, aggressive prospecting for assigned portfolio, ensuring that research is tracked within team systems, and top leads move into the cultivation pipeline and are successfully converted into new funding.
• With guidance from development teammates, strategically leverage NDWA and Care in Action programmatic leaders to initiate and build relationships with prospective funders.
• Manage work of government grants consultant. Collaborate with additional external consultants or vendors on a project basis (e.g., proposals, reports, prospect research).

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of nonprofit development or equivalent experience, and proven success managing an institutional giving portfolio, ideally in a movement or social justice context.
• Government grants management experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in 501(c)(4) or PAC fundraising contexts is a plus.
• Knowledge of or willingness to learn about philanthropic trends and donor behavior in the institutional giving landscape.
• Exceptional written and strong verbal communication skills, including experience leading the development of complex grant proposals, reports, and funder materials.
• Strategic thinker with strong systems orientation and meticulous attention to detail — able to design, adopt, and refine processes for key development functions.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt.
• Alignment with NDWA’s vision and values, including a commitment to economic, racial, and gender justice.
• Familiarity with the domestic worker sector and issues facing domestic workers and other low-wage workers.
• Ability to work and collaborate with diverse staff in person, remotely, and as part of a high-performing team in a fast-paced, experimental organization.
• Strong organizational and creative problem-solving skills.
• Deep understanding of fundraising data systems and analytics; Salesforce experience strongly preferred.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite.
• Spanish proficiency is a plus.
• Able to travel if needed.