Director – Raising Child Care Fund

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Remote; EUR 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Raising Child Care Fund is seeking a senior leader to guide strategy and day-to-day operations, advance fundraising, and strengthen its philanthropic constituency. You will shape grantmaking priorities, build trusted partnerships with grantees and funders, and translate priorities into funding decisions.

The role requires deep knowledge of grassroots organizing, advocacy, and public policy, with a track record of securing philanthropic support and guiding complex partnerships across movements.

Qualifikationen

• Significant leadership experience navigating complex organizations, partnerships, or movements.
• Deep understanding of grassroots organizing, power building, advocacy, and public policy.
• Experience in child care or a related field or movement; relevant adjacent experience is also considered.
• Demonstrated success cultivating philanthropic relationships and securing significant private funding.
• Ability to make a compelling investment case and build relationships with funders across issue areas and priorities.
• Strong coalition leadership and relational skills.
• Experience building trust and collaborating with funders, organizers, advocates, community leaders, and other partners.
• Experience with grantmaking, pooled funds, philanthropic collaboratives, and/or collaborative governance.
• Understanding of equitable approaches to resourcing state and community organizations.
• Strategic leadership experience in complex, evolving environments.

Aufgaben

• Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership for the Raising Child Care Fund.
• Lead fundraising and strengthen RCCF's philanthropic constituency.
• Lead RCCF's grantmaking strategy, including geographic priorities, organizing capacity, and equitable investment.
• Cultivate trusted relationships with grantee partners and collaborate with national, state, and local partners.
• Ensure grantee perspectives inform strategy and grantmaking.
• Develop and execute a fundraising strategy for financial sustainability and expanded funder support.
• Cultivate and steward current and prospective funder relationships.
• Develop funding opportunities and proposals and oversee reporting and funder commitments.
• Lead funder engagement and education on grassroots organizing, power building, and equitable grantmaking.
• Steward RCCF's budget and financial resources with ECFC Executive Director, TSNE fiscal staff, and the evolving governance structure.
• Translate strategic priorities into funding and grantmaking decisions.
• Bridge philanthropy and grassroots movements to enable learning, collaboration, and aligned action.
• Shape communications and storytelling that elevate grantee work and demonstrate the impact of sustained investment.
• Build partnerships with local, state, and national movement and advocacy organizations.
• Contribute RCCF's experience to ECFC's broader work through member learning, consultation, convenings, and field representation.
• Travel approximately 10-15% for funder and partner meetings, conferences, convenings, and other activities.

Kenntnisse

Strategic Leadership

Grassroots Organizing

Philanthropic Relationship Cultivation

Grantmaking Experience

Coalition Leadership

Jobbeschreibung

• Provide strategic and day-to-day leadership for the Raising Child Care Fund
• Lead fundraising and strengthen RCCF's philanthropic constituency
• Lead RCCF's grantmaking strategy, including geographic priorities, organizing capacity, and equitable investment
• Cultivate trusted relationships with grantee partners and collaborate with national, state, and local partners
• Ensure grantee perspectives inform strategy and grantmaking
• Develop and execute a fundraising strategy for financial sustainability and expanded funder support
• Cultivate and steward current and prospective funder relationships
• Develop funding opportunities and proposals and oversee reporting and funder commitments
• Lead funder engagement and education on grassroots organizing, power building, and equitable grantmaking
• Steward RCCF's budget and financial resources with ECFC Executive Director, TSNE fiscal staff, and the evolving governance structure
• Translate strategic priorities into funding and grantmaking decisions
• Lead RCCF staff and consultants by setting priorities, assessing capacity needs, and shaping team resources
• Bridge philanthropy and grassroots movements to enable learning, collaboration, and aligned action
• Shape communications and storytelling that elevate grantee work and demonstrate the impact of sustained organizing investment
• Build partnerships with local, state, and national movement and advocacy organizations
• Contribute RCCF's experience to ECFC's broader work through member learning, consultation, convenings, and field representation
• Travel approximately 10-15% for funder and partner meetings, conferences, convenings, and other activities

Requirements

• Significant leadership experience navigating complex organizations, partnerships, or movements
• Deep understanding of grassroots organizing, power building, advocacy, and public policy
• Experience in child care or a related field or movement; relevant adjacent experience is also considered
• Demonstrated success cultivating philanthropic relationships and securing significant private funding for advocacy, organizing, policy, or movement-building work
• Ability to make a compelling investment case and build relationships with funders across issue areas and priorities
• Strong coalition leadership and relational skills
• Experience building trust and collaborating with funders, organizers, advocates, community leaders, and other partners
• Experience with grantmaking, pooled funds, philanthropic collaboratives, and/or collaborative governance
• Understanding of equitable approaches to resourcing state and community organizations
• Strategic leadership experience in complex, evolving environments
• Ability to navigate uncertainty, make sound decisions, guide stakeholders through change, and translate strategy into action
• Strong communication and storytelling skills
• Ability to synthesize learning across partners and communicate with diverse audiences
• Commitment to ECFC and RCCF's mission and values, including racial equity, shared power, transparency, learning, and respect for community expertise
• Ability to maintain a home office conducive to productive work and virtual meetings
• Ability to work most hours between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, with regular availability between noon and 5:00 p.m. ET
• Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

Core Competencies

Demonstrates strategic leadership in fundraising and grantmaking, with a strong focus on grassroots organizing, equitable investment, and building philanthropic relationships. Capable of navigating complex partnerships and translating strategic priorities into actionable funding decisions.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Strategic Leadership
• Grassroots Organizing
• Philanthropic Relationship Cultivation
• Grantmaking Experience
• Coalition Leadership

Hard Skills

• Fundraising Strategy Development
• Grant Proposal Development
• Budget Stewardship
• Equitable Grantmaking
• Funder Engagement

Soft Skills

• Strong Communication Skills
• Relationship Building
• Collaboration
• Trust Building
• Storytelling

Industry Keywords

• Child Care
• Advocacy
• Public Policy
• Community Organizations
• Philanthropic Collaboratives