Senior Strategic Partnerships Officer

Women’s World Banking; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Paid time off

Mental Health Weeks

401(k) with employer match

Professional development opportunities

Flexible work options

Job summary

Women’s World Banking in New York, NY seeks a Senior Strategic Partnerships Officer to expand major gifts and individual philanthropy in partnership with the CEO. This is a strategic, relationship-driven role focused on growing resources to advance economic opportunity for women worldwide.

You'll manage a portfolio of major donor prospects, craft compelling proposals, and engage with senior leaders, family offices, foundations, and influential philanthropists.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of fundraising, business development, private wealth, strategic partnerships, consulting, client relationship management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success building senior-level relationships and translating them into measurable fundraising, business development, partnership, or revenue outcomes.
• Experience managing a portfolio of donors, prospects, clients, investors, accounts, or other strategic relationships.
• Executive presence, sound judgment, and the ability to engage credibly with senior executives, philanthropists, board members, and other influential stakeholders.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills, including the ability to develop compelling proposals, briefings, correspondence, and engagement strategies on behalf of senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Own and grow a portfolio of major donor prospects and supporters, developing and executing strategies that identify new opportunities, deepen engagement, and convert relationships into philanthropic investment.
• Build and advance a pipeline of individual donors, family offices, philanthropic advisors, foundations, corporate leaders, and other high-potential supporters aligned with Women's World Banking's mission and fundraising priorities.
• Develop and execute cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies that strengthen donor relationships and support fundraising goals.
• Evaluate portfolio performance, identify emerging opportunities, and recommend strategic adjustments to maximize fundraising results.
• Maintain relationship intelligence and portfolio data that support effective decision-making, forecasting, and fundraising strategy.

Skills

Fundraising

Relationship building

Donor cultivation

Executive presence

Strategic partnerships

Proposal writing

Portfolio management

Communication skills

Job description

Title: Senior Strategic Partnerships Officer

Classification: Full-time

Location: New York, NY

Start Date: Immediate

Salary range is for candidates based in the New York City Metropolitan area. Outside of the NYC metro, we differentiate salaries based on location.

It is customary for entry-level candidates to join Women’s World Banking at the lower half of the range to leave room for candidates to grow, expand, and develop in the role. It is common for starting salaries to fall in the mid-point of the range for more experienced candidates. We negotiate actual salaries with final candidates based on their exact location, experience in similar roles, and expertise related to the qualifications.

Women's World Banking is seeking an entrepreneurial, relationship-oriented fundraising professional to partner directly with President & CEO Mary Ellen Iskenderian in expanding the organization's major gifts and individual philanthropy program.

This is not a traditional development role. You'll bring the relationship discipline, stewardship instincts, and mission fluency of a major gifts officer, fused with the hunter mentality, deal-closing energy, and door-opening hustle of a business development leader. Partnering directly with the CEO, you'll transform relationships, introductions, speaking engagements, board connections, and strategic networks into philanthropic partnerships that advance economic opportunity for millions of women around the world.

The role carries responsibility for managing and advancing a portfolio of major donor prospects and supporters while serving as a trusted strategic partner to the CEO. Both elements of the role offer a unique opportunity to engage philanthropists, family offices, foundations, corporate leaders, and influential changemakers while helping grow philanthropic support for Women's World Banking's mission to advance economic opportunity for millions of women around the world. Working in partnership with the CEO, this role contributes directly to annual fundraising objectives of approximately $10 million through strategic relationship development, donor cultivation, and philanthropic partnership building.

Why This Role Is Different

At Women's World Banking, fundraising is central to advancing our mission of economic empowerment for women globally.

In this role, you will:

• Partner directly with the CEO as a strategic thought partner and fundraising collaborator.
• Build relationships with philanthropists, family offices, foundations, and influential leaders around the world.
• Help shape and grow a pipeline of funding and general operating support, including a major gifts and individual giving program at a critical moment of organizational growth.
• Gain exposure to senior leadership, Board members, donors, and global stakeholders.
• Enjoy significant autonomy, ownership, and visibility while helping secure the resources needed to transform women's lives.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own and grow a portfolio of major donor prospects and supporters, developing and executing strategies that identify new opportunities, deepen engagement, and convert relationships into philanthropic investment.
• Build and advance a pipeline of individual donors, family offices, philanthropic advisors, foundations, corporate leaders, and other high-potential supporters aligned with Women's World Banking's mission and fundraising priorities.
• Develop and execute cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies that strengthen donor relationships and support fundraising goals.
• Evaluate portfolio performance, identify emerging opportunities, and recommend strategic adjustments to maximize fundraising results.
• Maintain relationship intelligence and portfolio data that support effective decision-making, forecasting, and fundraising strategy.

CEO Partnership & Strategic Engagement

• Serve as a strategic fundraising partner to the CEO, developing and executing engagement strategies for high-priority prospects, donors, and strategic relationships.
• Translate the CEO's network, visibility, and influence into philanthropic opportunities through targeted outreach, relationship mapping, introductions, events, speaking engagements, and other strategic engagement channels.
• Drive end-to-end stewardship of priority relationships, moving prospects seamlessly from initial engagement through investment and ongoing partnership.
• Provide strategic briefings, communications, proposals, and recommendations that equip the CEO to maximize donor and prospect interactions.
• Partner closely with Development colleagues to deliver a coordinated and exceptional donor experience across the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship lifecycle.
• Support the continued evolution of the Women's World Banking Leaders Circle as a strategic platform for donor engagement, influence, and philanthropy.

Required Qualifications

We recognize that successful candidates may come from a variety of backgrounds, including fundraising, business development, private wealth, strategic partnerships, consulting, or relationship management. What matters most is a track record of building trusted relationships, creating opportunities, and driving successful outcomes with senior stakeholders.

You bring:

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in fundraising, business development, private wealth, strategic partnerships, consulting, client relationship management, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success building senior-level relationships and translating them into measurable fundraising, business development, partnership, or revenue outcomes.
• Experience managing a portfolio of donors, prospects, clients, investors, accounts, or other strategic relationships.
• Executive presence, sound judgment, and the ability to engage credibly with senior executives, philanthropists, board members, and other influential stakeholders.
• Strong communication and relationship management skills, including the ability to develop compelling proposals, briefings, correspondence, and engagement strategies on behalf of senior leaders.
• A genuine pull toward Women’s World Banking’s mission: economic empowerment for women, financial inclusion, and international development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Existing relationships within philanthropy, family offices, private wealth, corporate social impact, or related networks that you’re excited to put to work..
• Experience supporting a CEO, President, Board member, or other senior executive in managing external relationships and strategic partnerships.
• Experience securing, influencing, or advancing major gifts, strategic partnerships, or other complex stakeholder relationships.
• Experience with Salesforce or a comparable CRM platform.
• Familiarity with international development, gender equity, financial inclusion, or related sectors.

Measure of Success

Within the First 75 Days

• Develop a strong understanding of the CEO's fundraising priorities, relationship network, funding targets, and expectations for donor and prospect engagement.
• Develop an understanding of Women's World Banking's mission, strategic priorities, programs, impact, and value proposition.
• Build productive working relationships with the CEO, Executive Assistant, Development leadership, Board members, and other colleagues involved in donor cultivation and stewardship.
• Assess existing CEO-linked donor and prospect activity and establish a prioritized individual giving and major gifts pipeline with clear engagement strategies and introduction pathways.
• Demonstrate early progress in generating and advancing opportunities through prospect research, outreach, relationship development, portfolio management, and CEO engagement support.

We offer comprehensive benefits including:

• Competitive salary & top tier benefits
• 15+ paid time off days in addition to paid sick days and holidays
• Company closes for two paid Mental Health and Rejuvenation Weeks per year (July & December)
• 401(k) with employer match / pension contributions where applicable
• Company paid professional development opportunities
• Flexible work options available, including work from home options (outside of fieldwork)

About Women's World Banking

We believe in being a force for the greater good, devoted to accelerating and growing the financial inclusion of women. With rapidly changing markets, influenced by technology and social behavioral expectations, we are embarking on a new chapter to transform the way we design and implement solutions.

For over 40 years, Women’s World Banking has partnered with financial institutions, showing them the benefit of investing in women as customers. We equip these institutions with in-depth research and data driven insights to develop financial products and educational programs. While our clients are financial service providers, our mission is to engage consumers – women who are marginalized by financial systems.

Women’s World Banking and WWB Asset Management is an equal employment opportunity for all regardless of race, color, citizenship, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, veteran or reservist status or any other category protected by federal, state or local law.