Remote Strategic Partnerships Lead: Canada Donor Growth

Ipas; United States; Remote; USD 86,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Ipas is seeking a Strategic Partnership Manager to strengthen resource mobilization and the partnership portfolio in Canada. The role focuses on identifying, cultivating, and expanding a pipeline of institutional funders, foundations, corporate partners, and strategic collaborators aligned with Ipas's mission.

The manager will support business development, engage priority donors, and craft donor-facing materials, including proposals, budgets, and partnership strategies, while advancing

Qualifications

• Ten+ years of work experience managing programs and projects with increasing complexity and responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience in business development, fundraising, and/or proposal development for NGOs or mission-driven organizations.
• Strong understanding of institutional donor environments, including bilateral and multilateral agencies, foundations, and partnership or consortium approaches.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and French.
• Ability to manage multiple deadlines, coordinate across teams, and deliver high-quality products with minimal supervision.
• Proven record of developing competitive proposals and donor-facing products, including complex budgets and results frameworks or log frames.
• Subject-matter expertise in sexual and reproductive health and rights, and reproductive justice, including international work.
• Deep commitment to reproductive justice, human rights, abortion rights, gender equity, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Commitment to shared leadership and inclusive, non-hierarchical collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Map priority foundations, institutional funders, corporate partners, and strategic collaborators aligned with Ipas's mission.
• Analyze funder priorities, eligibility, timelines, award sizes, indirect cost expectations, and compliance.
• Identify and track RFIs/Cs, invitations, and relationship-led opportunities; maintain a pipeline tracker.
• Support go/no-go decisions with fit assessments, competitiveness analysis, and risk review.
• Develop donor engagement plans with objectives, messages, and decision-makers.
• Draft capability statements, one-pagers, slides, budgets, and boilerplate language.
• Build intelligence on trends and opportunities in Canada for the Ipas Network.
• Coordinate external communications with the Communications Node; contribute to website and newsletters.
• Prepare talking points and agendas for external meetings; assist with follow-ups.
• Advise on partnership strategy including lead vs sub-award roles and consortium structures.
• Report fundraising results with the Development Service Node and participate in annual cycles.
• Support donor-facing submissions including expressions of interest and full proposals.
• Develop and review narratives for compliance and responsiveness to donor criteria.
• Coordinate budgets and budget narratives with finance for donor rules.
• Provide feedback and participate in review meetings to finalize revisions.

Skills

Program management

Fundraising

Proposal development

Donor engagement

English & French communication

Multi-stakeholder coordination

Budgeting & finance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Job description

Ipas is seeking a Strategic Partnership Manager to strengthen resource mobilization and the partnership portfolio in Canada. The role focuses on identifying, cultivating, and expanding a pipeline of institutional funders, foundations, corporate partners, and strategic collaborators aligned with Ipas's mission.

The manager will support business development, engage priority donors, and craft donor-facing materials, including proposals, budgets, and partnership strategies, while advancing