Emergency Response Fundraising Senior Manager/ Director at GiveDirectly

What you’ll do:

Emergency Activation & Real-Time Fundraising

• Lead donor outreach in the critical first 48 hours of an emergency, crafting compelling messages and coordinating fast, targeted engagement.
• Prioritize and tailor outreach based on the geography, nature of the crisis, and donor fit — knowing which funders to approach and how.
• Collaborate with program and comms teams to build real-time fundraising narratives grounded in operational data.
• Maintain and continuously improve a fundraising playbook outlining standard operating procedures for all phases of crisis response — including pre-crisis pipeline engagement, first-48-hour donor outreach, activation messaging, and post-crisis reporting and stewardship.

Pre-Positioned Funding & Pipeline Development

Develop and manage a pipeline of pre-positioned funding mechanisms, with the goal of:

• Securing GiveDirectly’s inclusion on vetted donor rosters for rapid response (e.g. pre-approved partners lists, standing framework agreements, pooled funding windows); and
• Building GiveDirectly’s own flexible contingency fund to enable immediate deployment of cash in high-risk or forecasted crises.
• Scope and pursue funding aligned with early action, anticipatory response, and climate adaptation — including opportunities from bilateral/multilateral agencies, corporations, foundations, and high-net-worth individuals.
• Analyze donor behavior and market trends to create lead lists of prospective donors for high likelihood emergency response geographies. Dynamically prioritize and re-prioritize high ROI opportunities.
• Identify and communicate market changes and emerging opportunities internally to inform GiveDirectly’s international rapid response roadmap. 
• Proactively track donor strategies, policy shifts, and upcoming cycles to position GiveDirectly for sustained emergency readiness.

Writing & Donor Communications

• Draft high-quality fundraising materials, including appeals, proposals, decks, situation briefs, and impact reports.
• Translate complex programmatic and operational insights into clear, compelling narratives for donor audiences.
• Prepare briefing materials for senior leadership ahead of high-stakes donor conversations.

Donor Stewardship and Conversion

• Ensure timely, transparent, and impactful reporting for all emergency-related grants.
• Track donor interactions, deadlines, and reporting in Salesforce and internal tools.
• Partner with other fundraising team members to grow donor relationships beyond IRR into broader programming.

What you’ll bring:

• Exceptional alignment with GiveDirectly Values and active demonstration of our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
• Language Requirement: English
• Language Preferences: French, Portuguese
• Have strong experience in humanitarian fundraising — ideally with institutional, corporation, foundation, and HNWI donors.
• Know the humanitarian funding landscape: who gives, when, and how, and how to craft the right pitch at the right time.
• Are tenacious problem solvers who get things done.
• Bring excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially for high-stakes and external-facing materials, with a continuous desire to improve those skills
• Communicate exceptionally well under pressure — both in writing and in real-time with senior stakeholders.
• Are strong project managers and ruthless prioritizers, comfortable self-structuring workstreams across multiple priorities and stakeholders
• Thrive in fast-paced environments with ambiguous problems and proactively identify areas for improvement and innovation
• Are energized by GiveDirectly’s mission and the opportunity to catalyze step-change organizational growth and impact for recipients
• Are equally comfortable navigating relationships and working directly with senior leaders and executive assistants
• Have 4+ years of experience in fundraising, partnerships, or program development in a mission-driven or high-performance setting.). 
• Are strongly aligned with our values, and who actively demonstrate our core competencies: emotional intelligence, problem solving, project management, follow-through, and fostering inclusivity. We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.
• Experience living and working in humanitarian response contexts preferred
• Experience with Canva or other design tools and Salesforce or similar CRM systems preferred