Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership to define annual fundraising priorities, goals, and an executable development plan.
• Build and manage a major gifts and foundation pipeline from prospect research and outreach through cultivation, solicitation, closing, and stewardship.
• Lead donor meeting preparation and follow-up, including briefing notes, proposals, impact summaries, and clearly defined next steps.
• Develop stewardship cadences that help retain, deepen, and grow donor support over time.
• Support gift processing and donor documentation practices consistent with nonprofit standards and donor intent.
• Own and execute a donor communications calendar and write high-quality content directly.
• Draft donor emails, campaign appeals, stewardship updates, talking points, and meeting follow-up communications.
• Create polished one-pagers, impact summaries, short decks, and other materials that strengthen donor and partner conversations.
• Support PHP’s external presence across priority channels, including LinkedIn and website content, with an emphasis on credibility, clarity, and fundraising relevance.
• Select, implement, or strengthen a CRM and maintain high-quality donor data, interaction notes, and next actions.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in development, fundraising, philanthropy, or a similarly high-accountability mission-driven environment.
• Demonstrated success with major gifts and/or foundation relationships, including moving opportunities forward and helping close gifts.
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to produce polished donor-facing communications quickly and independently.
• Strong organizational discipline and comfort building systems, workflows, and reporting structures from the ground up.
• Experience working in or alongside a CRM and maintaining clean, actionable donor records.
• Professional judgment, warmth, and confidence in donor-facing settings.
• Familiarity with 501(c)(3) fundraising norms, stewardship expectations, and donor intent considerations.

Preferred

• Experience in global health, healthcare quality improvement, or technology-enabled social impact.
• Experience in a small nonprofit or entrepreneurial environment where priorities move quickly and ownership is high.
• Exposure to foundation fundraising, donor strategy, and external communications in the Bay Area or broader global health ecosystem.
• Experience building repeatable fundraising processes, stewardship programs, or communications templates.