Building the Fire Fund Strategist

Solidaire Network; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid health premiums

401k with 10% contribution

37 holidays per year + 20 vacation + 9

Sick days and gender affirmation leave

Job summary

Solidaire Network seeks a Building the Fire Fund Strategist to advance movement-building and liberatory grantmaking on the Philanthropic Transformation team. This role focuses on accompaniment, deep collaboration with frontline partners, and real-world strategy implementation within the left in the United States.

The position emphasizes relationship-building with grantee partners, funders, and movement leaders, supporting a 10-year strategy that centers transformational change.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating with donor organizers and grassroots partners.
• Experience facilitating liberatory grantmaking and funding collaborations.
• Ability to organize convenings and program goals with movement partners.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain trusting, consistent relationships with BFF grantee partners, Advisory Council members, and allied funders.
• Support learning exchanges that strengthen capacity for principled struggle and transformative conflict resolution.
• Resource safety, wellness, healing, and resilience needs of grassroots organizers and movement builders.
• Bolster funding to regional movement-led vehicles, especially in the South and Midwest, at the intersections of climate, gender, and racial justice.
• Invest in movement communications, organizing infrastructure, and leadership development, including that of movement elders.
• Coordinate with movement partners respectfully, responsively, and in line with liberatory accompaniment practices.
• Maintain excellent records and data to ensure grantmaking compliance and learning.
• Co-develop and implement annual BFF program goals.
• Steward the Building the Fire Fund Advisory Council and support the development of an Indigenous women-led national reproductive justice entity.
• Organize convenings, produce materials, and coordinate partner engagement.
• Propose consultants and budget adjustments as needed.
• Apply and share insights on movement trends and political landscapes.
• Collaborate across Solidaire teams to foster community between donors and movement partners.
• Contribute to organizational learning and culture building.
• Attend convenings, conferences, and staff retreats as required.

Skills

Movement building

Grantmaking

Strategic collaboration

Accompaniment

Job description

Solidaire Network is excited to announce an opening for a Building the Fire Fund (BFF) Strategist. The BFF Strategist will join our Philanthropic Transformation (PT) team, which currently includes four talented team members advancing innovative strategies to liberate wealth and accompany movements contesting for power. The Strategist works closely with Solidaire’s donor organizers and other team members to advance and achieve the movement objectives laid out in our 10-year strategy—a roadmap to liberate wealth for movements to build lasting left power in the United States.

While the Strategist supports our broader movement alignment efforts, this role focuses deeply on accompaniment, movement building, and strategy implementation alongside frontline partners. The Strategist collaborates with the Philanthropic Transformation team and Solidaire’s Donor Organizing and Political Education Team to implement the movement objectives laid out in our 10-year strategy. The Strategist focuses on strengthening relationships and coordination within the left through funding, investing in, and participating in movement infrastructure while skillfully accompanying and learning from movement experimentation, protection, imagination, and transformation. This role includes accompanying BFF movement organizations and leaders, stewarding liberatory grantmaking and resource leveraging, and collaboratively guiding the goals and vision of the BFF in partnership with movement leaders and advisors

Building the Fire Fund Strategist Essential Functions

Accompaniment & Movement Building

• Build and maintain trusting, consistent relationships with BFF grantee partners, Advisory Council members, and allied funders.
• Support learning exchanges that strengthen capacity for principled struggle and transformative conflict resolution.
• Resource the safety, wellness, healing, and resilience needs of grassroots organizers and movement builders.
• Bolster funding to regional movement-led vehicles, especially in the South and Midwest, at the intersections of climate, gender, and racial justice.
• Invest in movement communications, organizing infrastructure, and leadership development, including that of movement elders.

Libratory Grantmaking & Resource Leveraging

• Support the design and facilitation of liberatory grantmaking processes in alignment with the Building the Fire Fund Advisory Council’s strategy and Solidaire’s values.
• Coordinate with movement partners respectfully, responsively, and in line with liberatory accompaniment practices.
• Maintain excellent records and data to ensure grantmaking compliance and learning.

Strategic Stewardship & Collaboration

• Co-develop and implement annual BFF program goals.
• Steward the Building the Fire Fund Advisory Council and support the development of an Indigenous women-led national reproductive justice entity.
• Organize convenings, produce materials, and coordinate partner engagement.
• Propose consultants and budget adjustments as needed.

Learning & Experimentation

• Apply and share insights on movement trends and political landscapes.
• Collaborate across Solidaire teams to foster community between donors and movement partners.
• Contribute to organizational learning and culture building.
• Attend convenings, conferences, and staff retreats as required.

This is a full-time, exempt position in Salary Band C ($120,000 - $160,000), depending on experience. Solidaire prioritizes staff well-being, health, and sustainability.

Benefits include:

• Fully paid health premiums for employees and family members.
• Employer-sponsored 401k with a 10% salary contribution.
• Generous time off: 37 holidays per year (including a summer and winter break), 20 vacation days, 9 sick days, and gender affirmation leave.
• Flexible work schedule.
• Fully remote within the United States.