• Leading and developing a high-performing fundraising team (approx. 5+), with a focus on coaching, performance management, and ensuring role clarity • Building a team culture grounded in accountability, analytical rigor, and continuous improvement • Providing strategic direction, quality assurance, and thought partnership on major proposals, pitch decks, and donor-facing materials • Establishing high-quality standards, templates, and review processes across the team • Owning and expanding a portfolio of high-value institutional, corporate, foundation, and HNW partners • Developing pipelines and closing multimillion-dollar, multi-year funding opportunities • Building trusted relationships with senior decision-makers and influential networks • Bringing creativity and strategic insight to partnership design, helping shift donor priorities toward cash as a preferred aid modality • Leading end-to-end partnership lifecycles — from discovery and market mapping to pitching, negotiation, and close • Acting as a senior external representative of GiveDirectly at conferences, donor forums, high-level events, and strategic convenings • Building and nurturing relationships across philanthropy, development, humanitarian response, climate, tech, and HNW networks • Collaborating with Country Directors and operational leaders to design compelling, evidence-driven program proposals • Aligning internal stakeholders (operations, finance, policy, research) for complex, multi-country funding opportunities • Enhancing forecasting, pipeline management, and partnership systems to support strategic decision-making • Strengthening cross-team knowledge sharing, proposal libraries, and partnership processes • Helping shape GiveDirectly’s long-term partnership roadmap, including major “big bet” opportunities