Senior Associate, Grassroots Philanthropy & Campaigns

Location based in: United States (DC, MD, NY, NJ, VA) - remote workingSalary: USD $53,840 - $74,165 Location-based in line with IPPF’s regional compensation structure.Report to: Global Head of Individual Philanthropy

About the Role:

The Senior Associate’s primary responsibilities will be to expand our existing community fundraising efforts and build a comprehensive model (launching in Spring 2025) that includes individual and group third-party fundraisers, Peer-to-Peer efforts with colleges and universities, cause marketing partnerships and collaborations with IPPF’s Member Associations (MAs) and Partners for joint fundraising and communications initiatives. The Senior Associate will also support efforts to expand and diversify IPPF’s external audiences and collaborate on multi-channel marketing and digital campaigns, and donor communications.

To support the next stage of the Individual Philanthropy program’s fundraising and engagement growth, IPPF is recruiting a Senior Associate, Grassroots Philanthropy & Campaigns. This is a newly-created revenue-generating position whose work will contribute to the further diversification of IPP’s fundraising streams and broaden our community of advocates and activists who support SRHRJ.

What you'll do:

• Support the co-design and implementation of a Community Fundraising scheme, including efforts with peer-to-peer (Colleges & Universities in the US and internationally), third-party individual and group fundraisers and events, and cause marketing partnerships.
• Serve as the primary contact and relationship manager for all peer-to-peer and third-party fundraising relationships, activities, and enquiries.
• Identify and cultivate new community philanthropy resource partners, organizations, and SRHR champions for potential collaborations, specifically opportunities for cause marketing partnerships.
• Coordinate the creation and dissemination of all grassroots fundraising toolkits, creative assets, as well as processes and procedures.
• Coordinate and support partnership initiatives with various IPPF Member Associations, such as fundraising and awareness campaigns. Partner with IPPF’s Marketing & Campaigns agency and the Solidarity for Voice & Change team’s creation of internal and external communications, including email content for fundraising campaigns, donor communications and social media.
• Collaborate and provide input to broaden core messaging and multi-channel communications, lead generation efforts, and campaigns to expand to new, younger and more diverse audiences.

What we're looking for:

Your Experience

• One to two years of direct experience in a philanthropy program, including work with
• community fundraising and knowledge of best practices.
• Familiarity and experience with grassroots and peer-to-peer fundraising platforms (e.g., Givebutter or GoFundMe) and constituent database, like EveryAction.

Your Skills

• Developed listening and influencing skills.
• Strong writing skills.
• Relationship builder, including acting as an organizational representative.
• Data-driven, using data/analytics to improve strategy and decision-making.
• Cultivator and collaborator.
• Goal-orientated with a focus on building trust and credibility internally and externally.
• IT literate with an understanding of digital marketing and CRM systems

 Your Ethos

• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
• Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
• An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice, including safe abortion.
• Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of workers’ rights and access to health care in sex work

Why Join Us?

IPPF offers meaningful work, an inspiring environment, professional growth, and the chance to make a lasting impact on the lives of individuals and communities around the world. Working for IPPF offers a compelling value proposition.

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About IPPF:
 

International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) is a global sexual and reproductive health service provider and one of the leading advocates for universal access to sexual, reproductive health and rights (SRHR) for all. We are a worldwide movement of 149 national organisations working with and for communities and individuals and, together, have delivered more than 1 billion cumulative services over the last 6 years.  
 

We are now looking for people to join us and make our Come Together–Strategy 2028, a reality. Revolutionising IPPF, placing it in a stronger position to support SRHR for those who are left out, locked out or left behind. Come Together commits IPPF to shaping laws, policies and norms through feminist action and international solidarity; and to strengthen the federation adding new drive for real and lasting impact.
 

Action is urgent. We have delivered. We have stood for justice and equality. We commit to more daring and feminist action that secures choices about our bodies, sexual lives, and well-being. Everyone should enjoy a pleasure-filled and healthy sex life and a life free from violence, shame or criminalisation. We know love is love. And we come together in support of women, youth, and people who are marginalised and excluded. Through the care we deliver, the actions we take, and the solidarity we foster.    IPPF is an equal-opportunity employer. As a leading global human rights organisation focused on equality, empowerment, ending discrimination, and poverty eradication, we internally reflect social justice principles. We, as IPPF, strongly oppose racism in all its forms and resolutely go for a cultural change that will shift the existing imbalances in power and process.  
 

We are a multi-cultural, multi-lingual, intergenerational and diverse work environment.  Applications are particularly encouraged from women, people living with HIV, people living with disability and people with diverse SOGIESC.  
 

IPPF is committed to the safety and protection of children, young people and vulnerable adults and our safer recruitment and selection procedures reflect this commitment.  We expect all employees, volunteers, contractors and partners to share this commitment, and anyone employed by IPPF agrees to sign up to our Code of Conduct and Safeguarding (Children and Vulnerable Adults) Policy.   IPPF has been made aware of various fraudulent vacancy announcements circulated via e-mail from websites falsely stating that they are issued by or in association with IPPF.  These correspondences, which may seek to obtain money from the recipients of such correspondence, are fraudulent, and IPPF does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview, meeting, processing, training or any other fees).