Remote Senior Fundraising Lead

New Left Accelerator; United States; On-site; USD 61,000 - 72,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life

Health FSA

Paid time off

Professional development stipend

Working from home stipend

Retirement plan with matching

Job summary

New Left Accelerator (NLA) seeks a Senior Fundraising Manager to provide temporary, hands-on fundraising coordination, grant proposals, and reporting for its c3 and c4 entities. You will track data in Airtable, prepare executive materials, and support the Executive Director with development plans and donor communications.

The role partners with leadership to prioritize funding needs, craft compelling funder narratives, and manage end-of-year campaigns.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of relevant fundraising experience, including significant responsibility for foundation fundraising and grant management.
• Strong understanding of and commitment to social justice and movement-building work.
• Experience developing accurate grant proposals, reports, and funder-facing materials using existing organizational language and program information.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, particularly grant proposals, reports, and funder communications.
• Strong project management skills and ability to independently drive work from start to finish.
• Exceptional attention to detail, including comfort working with fundraising data, budgets, and tracking systems.
• Experience partnering closely with executive leadership and coordinating input across program, finance, and operations teams.
• Ability to translate complex programs, strategies, and impact into clear, persuasive narratives for varied audiences.
• Experience with Airtable or similar fundraising/project-management systems preferred.
• Existing relationships with institutional funders are a plus, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Draft, edit, and finalize grant and major-donor proposals, letters of inquiry, and renewal requests for both the c3 and c4 entities.
• Ensure grant proposals and reporting are completed by the required deadlines.
• Coordinate with the Finance & Operations team to ensure grant proposal budgets reflect the grant narrative.
• Maintain the Airtable to track and monitor grant proposals, deadlines, reports, and relevant documentation.
• Draft fundraising priorities each quarter for the Executive Director, and adjust priorities as circumstances change.
• Document NLA and TCS fundraising goals, commitments, received funds, and funding gaps across both entities.
• Maintain fundraising data and tracking systems, including accurate and timely updates in Airtable.
• Support the Executive Director with developing plans and proposals to address identified funding gaps.
• Stay updated with the program team to keep up to date on the work and priorities that inform our fundraising strategy.
• Work with Executive Director to design and run the end-of-year campaign.
• Facilitate and lead the weekly Fundraising meetings.
• Support the Executive Director in planning public appearances, including funder conferences, PSO events, and in-house funder invitations.
• Prepare briefing materials, talking points, meeting schedules, and funder-facing materials for priority conferences and funder engagements.
• Prepare funder-facing messaging materials including fundraising collateral
• Prepare written prospect research profiles on current and prospective funders.
• Set agendas and prepare follow-up materials for donor meetings and funder briefings, looping in the team as needed.
• Maintain the conference calendar, track relevant fundraising and sector events, and recommend attendance based on funder relationships and prospecting opportunities.
• Manage tracking and donor acknowledgment for individual donors
• Write the annual impact report and other funder-facing narrative documents.
• Write thank-you and acknowledgment language and follow through to ensure gifts are acknowledged promptly, coordinating with the team where needed to get them out the door.

Skills

Grant writing

Fundraising

Project management

Communication

Stakeholder coordination

Data tracking

Tools

Airtable

Job description

New Left Accelerator (NLA) seeks a Senior Fundraising Manager to provide temporary, hands-on fundraising coordination, grant proposals, and reporting for its c3 and c4 entities. You will track data in Airtable, prepare executive materials, and support the Executive Director with development plans and donor communications.

The role partners with leadership to prioritize funding needs, craft compelling funder narratives, and manage end-of-year campaigns.