Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator

May 22

Center for Environmental Health
Oakland, CA

Anticipated Start Date: 6/1/25

Description

As our Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator, you will support the Philanthropic Partnerships team in tracking, cultivating, and maintaining relationships with funders through writing and coordinating LOIs, proposals, and reports, managing grant-related systems, and conducting prospect research to secure resources that support our mission.

The Philanthropic Partnerships Coordinator will support the entire Philanthropic Partnerships team with a focus on writing drafts of and routing materials such as grants, major gift profiles, and annual appeals. You will also maintain the projects and schedules of the team, ensuring deadlines of projects, grants, and individual donor goals are met.

You will create and track calendars and project plans. Your work will bolster meaningful public health advocacy and consumer protection cases that deeply impact people and the environment. CEH fights because we believe everyone has the right to a healthy environment and consumer products that are free of toxic chemicals. We are committed to catalyzing solutions, driving public awareness, developing standards, crafting policies, and litigating toward systemic change in the world. This is an opportunity to make a tangible difference.

Why You’ll Love Working Here Culture and Values: We foster a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work environment. Our commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice is at the core of everything we do.

Professional Growth: We offer robust opportunities for professional and leadership development, including training and mentorship programs.

Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible work arrangements, including hybrid work.

Responsibilities

Write Letters of Inquiry (LOIs), proposals, reports, fundraising appeals, donor profiles, and other communications. Coordinate document reviews with relevant staff and integrate edits from various stakeholders to produce persuasive proposals and reports. Create and maintain a narrative boilerplate to be used throughout the year that is vetted by program staff.
Assist in the creation of proposal budgets and expenditure reports. Partner with program staff to gather needed proposal and report data, and be a thought partner for staff on how to optimize data systems for reporting.
Assist in the facilitation kickoffs and note-taking at meetings, program officer meeting prep calls, foundation strategy meetings, and grant debrief calls by helping set agendas, taking notes, and ensuring feedback is incorporated into future grant processes. Identify foundation, corporate, and government grant prospects, and corporate sponsorships, and conduct prospect research (i.e., Foundation Search).
Monitor prospect pipeline to ensure that CEH is pursuing new funders, moves management is happening on time, and that we are meeting set budgeted goals for new grants. Maintain grant deliverables systems and annual fund deliverables in Salesforce and Asana for timely submissions and meetings.
Input funder correspondence, prospect research, meeting notes, and other moves management activities into Salesforce. Create new fields, reports, and dashboards in Salesforce to track and analyze our fundraising efforts. Ensure accurate reporting and data integrity.
Assist with the cultivation of institutional contacts (including strategy, correspondence, and meetings) in collaboration with staff. Accurately track grant agreements, payments, and acknowledgments for all institutional grants. Track and route individual donor appeals. As well as major gift appeals. Assist in planning and organization of events.
Manage and organize electronic grant files. Support the Philanthropic Partnerships team with other projects as needed, such as supporting major gifts, events, and organizational support.

Requirements

What We Are Looking For:

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent and 1-2 years of working experience or equivalent educational experience. At least 1 year of internship or job experience in nonprofit grant writing and/or fundraising.
Some database experience preferred (experience with Salesforce or similar donor database a plus).
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. Strong editing skills.
Meticulous attention to detail and expert time-management skills. Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and meet overlapping deadlines.
Ability to work independently and strength in multi-tasking, goal setting, and workload prioritization.
Ability to create project plans and keep plans on track with all stakeholders in the project.
Excellent interpersonal skills with a demonstrated successful track record as a proactive self-starter and a flexible team-player who adapts well to change.
Ability to thrive in a team environment and work collaboratively.
Proficiency with Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and Google Suite. Ability to travel regularly, including to CEH headquarters in Oakland, CA, up to 30% annually.

Salary Range and Employee Benefits

Comprehensive Benefits: Our competitive benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, 401k match, generous paid time off, and more.

Salary: We offer competitive salaries, excellent benefits, and a supportive working environment. The salary range for this position is $60,000 per year. Salary is based on a nonprofit scale and is commensurate with skills and experience. Internal equity will be reviewed and considered to determine a final offer. Our offices are open, and we are operating in a hybrid model.

CEH is an equal opportunity employer. As an organization committed to diversity and the perspective of all voices, it considers applicants equally of race, gender, gender identity or expression, color, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, age, ability, personal appearance, family responsibilities, or national origin. Join Us: Be part of an organization where your work truly matters. Apply now and contribute to our mission to reduce exposure to toxic chemicals in our air, water, soil, food, and the products we use every day.

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About the Organization

The Center for Environmental Health (“CEH”) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that protects people from toxic chemicals and promotes business practices that are safe for public health and the environment. We stop corporations from exposing people to toxic chemicals, collaborate with responsible businesses and industry leaders, and are committed to inclusive, community-led solutions that address environmental injustices in low-income communities of color.

Workplace

CEH is an organization of committed, science-driven advocates who work together to keep short-sighted business interests from harming people in the name of profit. We are proud of our work and achieve big wins for people’s health. The organizational culture is one of entrepreneurism and thoughtfully assessed risk taking. CEH believes that to protect the health of all people, we must address the disproportionate health effects of toxic chemicals caused by systemic racism and other social injustices.

The movement to eliminate dangerous chemicals must move forward in partnership with Environmental Justice, Reproductive Justice, and other related movements working to address the pressing social justice issues of our day. CEH’s headquarters are in Oakland, and we have staff located in North Carolina’s Triangle Area, Chicago, the Los Angeles area, and Seattle. This position is located in the Oakland office, but we are open to candidates from other locations. All staff are working remotely currently due to the pandemic.

Commitment to JEDI

At CEH, striving for justice, diversity, equity and inclusion (“JEDI”) for all is critical to our mission and values. We know that having a team that is diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, ability, sexual orientation, age, background, and opinions — and fostering inclusion among that team — is core to achieving our organizational goals. CEH strives to recruit talent from a diverse pool of candidates and ensure that those professionals it hires are sufficiently supported so that they flourish.

The organization wants everyone to not only have a seat at the table, but to know that their presence and input makes the organization stronger.

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