The Role
Manage a portfolio of foundation grants across the full lifecycle: cultivate and steward funder relationships, produce high-quality proposals and reports, coordinate Program and Finance teams and Group Development, and identify opportunities to increase and diversify funding.
Summary Generated by Built In
Join ClientEarth Americas’ growing team!
We are hiring a Grants Manager who will be part of a vibrant and expanding legal and supporting team of 25 that uses multiple leverage points to integrate climate-related risks and externalities into the laws that govern businesses and economic systems. We are looking for someone with the ability to build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with funders while identifying opportunities to increase funding and secure new sources of income.
We are hiring a Grants Manager who will be part of a vibrant and expanding legal and supporting team of 25 that uses multiple leverage points to integrate climate-related risks and externalities into the laws that govern businesses and economic systems. We are looking for someone with the ability to build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with funders while identifying opportunities to increase funding and secure new sources of income.
ClientEarth is an international environmental legal organization that works on the full suite of environmental issues globally. ClientEarth Americas is an independent 501(c)(3) organization that works in strategic partnership with ClientEarth Group, a UK-headquartered international group of entities.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Please note that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of grants from key foundations ensuring existing funder relationships are maximized through effective grant management and excellent stewardship. Ensure grantors are aware of project progress, challenges and impact across the full lifecycle, from award through implementation to renewal.
- Produce high quality reports and proposals for existing grantors, coordinating input from ClientEarth Americas Program and Finance teams and ClientEarth Group Development teams to ensure accuracy and alignment with funding priorities.
- Work closely with the ClientEarth Group Global Head of Grants, Grants Management Lead, and wider Group Development Department Leadership on the grantor portfolio to ensure effective, streamlined cultivation of prospects and income generation.
See the job description for a full list of duties for this role.
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- Significant and demonstrable experience working in a fundraising, grant management or project management role for a non-profit, private or public entity (essential)
- Significant experience managing a large and complex funding portfolio, responding to competing deadlines and managing multiple tasks and priorities (essential)
- Experience leading the development of grant proposals and reports, including effectively obtaining input from relevant internal/external stakeholders (essential)
- Significant experience drafting complex proposals for foundations or other types of philanthropic donors and securing multi-year, six and seven-figure grants (essential)
See the job description for a full list of duties for this role.
Note to candidates: We know that long lists of criteria can be daunting and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. If you feel you meet at least some of the essential criteria, we still encourage you to apply.
Note to candidates: We know that long lists of criteria can be daunting and that some candidates will not apply for a role unless they feel they are 100% qualified. If you feel you meet at least some of the essential criteria, we still encourage you to apply.
Job Benefits
Further Information
ClientEarth provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, color, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law.
ClientEarth provides 25 days of accrual-based vacation days per calendar year for full-time employees plus official US federal and state holidays. In addition to vacation days and holidays, we are also closed between Christmas day and New Year’s Day. Our flexible working policy allows our Los Angeles team the choice to decide to work from home up to 60% of the time. We provide technology to enable home working and reimbursement of up to $300 to cover additional equipment needed to ensure that you have an ergonomically sound work space.
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About
We are a non-profit using the power of the law to bring about end-to-end systemic change: informing, implementing and enforcing the law, drafting and advising decision-makers on policy, building legal expertise, and ensuring citizens’ access to the laws that defend them.We take governments to court – and win. We force polluting industries to shut down. We protect irreplaceable forests and vulnerable species. We empower people and NGOs with the legal rights to bring forward environmental battles of their own. Using the law means that we create real, long-lasting and embedded change.We’re working to secure a lasting civilisation in which people and nature thrive together. We work in partnership across borders, systems and sectors, ingeniously using the law to protect life on Earth.
Skills Required
- Significant experience in fundraising, grant management, or project management for non-profit, private, or public entities
- Experience managing large, complex funding portfolios and competing deadlines
- Experience leading development of grant proposals and reports, coordinating internal and external stakeholders
- Experience drafting complex proposals and securing multi-year six- and seven-figure grants
- Ability to build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with funders and identify new funding opportunities
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The Company
What We Do
ClientEarth is an environmental charity and organisation of activist lawyers dedicated to protecting life on Earth. They use the power of the law to create systemic change, addressing pressing environmental challenges by informing, implementing, and enforcing the law.
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