Manager, Fundraising

Location: Remote, US

About the Role

IDinsight seeks a strategic and relationship-driven Manager, Fundraising to join our global External Affairs team. This role will lead efforts to grow and diversify IDinsight's funding base by cultivating institutional funders - including foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, and corporate partners - alongside building IDinsight's emerging major gifts program, focused on high-net-worth individuals and philanthropists.

As a Manager on the External Affairs team, you will drive the full fundraising cycle: from prospecting and cultivation through solicitation, stewardship, and renewal. You will collaborate extensively across IDinsight's global teams - including regional leadership, project teams, communications, and senior management - to develop compelling funding cases, coordinate funder engagement, and ensure IDinsight's resource mobilization efforts are cohesive and aligned with organizational strategy. You will also oversee the health and strategic use of IDinsight's CRM (Salesforce), ensuring data quality and pipeline visibility to support evidence-based fundraising decisions.

This is a high-visibility role suited for someone who thrives in cross-functional environments, can navigate ambiguity, and brings both the analytical rigor and interpersonal skill to build relationships with a range of funders and internal stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Fundraising Strategy & Execution

• Institutional fundraising: Lead the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of institutional funders, including foundations, bilateral and multilateral donors, and corporate partners.
• Major gifts: Build and manage IDinsight's individual giving pipeline, developing relationships with high-net-worth individuals and philanthropists. Design and execute tailored cultivation strategies, manage a personal portfolio of major gift prospects, and develop the systems and processes to support a growing individual donor program.
• Proposal development: Draft and coordinate high-quality funding proposals, concept notes, letters of inquiry, and donor reports. Tailor IDinsight's value proposition to specific funder priorities and giving vehicles.
• Pipeline management: Maintain a robust and well-documented fundraising pipeline. Track progress toward revenue targets, surface risks early, and provide regular pipeline reporting to senior leadership.

CRM Oversight & Fundraising Operations

• CRM strategy: Oversee the strategic use of IDinsight's Salesforce instance, ensuring it effectively supports pipeline tracking, donor management, and reporting needs. Ensure data integrity, define workflows, and drive adoption across the team.
• Prospect research: Conduct and coordinate prospect research across institutional and individual donor segments. Synthesize findings into actionable briefings for senior leadership and fundraising colleagues.
• Reporting & analysis: Generate regular fundraising reports, dashboards, and analyses to inform strategy and support decision-making.

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Internal coordination: Work closely with IDinsight's regional teams, project leads, and technical staff to source compelling evidence, impact stories, and project updates for funder communications.
• Communications alignment: Collaborate with the Strategic Communications function to ensure consistent messaging across fundraising materials, public-facing content, and event engagement.
• Partnerships integration: Coordinate with Strategic Partnerships colleagues to align funder engagement with broader partnership strategy, ensuring seamless handoffs and coherent external positioning.
• Senior leadership engagement: Prepare briefing materials and support senior leaders for high-stakes funder meetings, events, and convenings.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in fundraising or development, with at least 2 years focused on major gifts, individual giving, or high-net-worth donor engagement.
• Demonstrated success in managing and closing five- and six-figure (or larger) gifts from institutional and/or individual donors.
• Experience working with or for international or globally-oriented nonprofit organizations, ideally in the global development, evidence, or social impact space.
• Strong working knowledge of Salesforce or comparable CRM platforms, with the ability to oversee data quality, reporting, and pipeline management (required).
• Exceptional written communication skills, including the ability to produce compelling proposals, donor correspondence, and strategic communications.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities across time zones.
• A collaborative, proactive, and solution-oriented approach; comfort working across cultures and in a distributed, fast-paced team environment.
• Familiarity with Slack and Google Workspace (preferred).

What We Offer

• A supportive, mission-driven team environment.
• Exposure to global development issues and high-impact work.
• Opportunities for professional growth within a fast-paced, purpose-driven organization.

Professional Development

Skill and career development are core to IDinsight's values and long-term impact strategy, and have been noted highlights of teammates' experiences. IDinsighters receive significant mentorship from IDinsight leadership, support from talented peers, and are given considerable autonomy when ready. They maintain professional development plans and are given "stretch" opportunities designed to strengthen a variety of skills. Real-time feedback is embedded in our culture and formal structure enables maximum professional growth. Additionally, teammates have access to an annual professional development stipend that they are encouraged to utilize to explore their career interests and develop their skills.

Nuts & Bolts

Location

This position is remote within the United States. The successful candidate must be authorized to work in the United States. IDinsight is not able to sponsor work authorization for this role. Given that the role requires collaboration with teams around the world, the successful candidate should be able and willing to regularly take calls outside of normal working hours to accommodate various time zones.

Start Date

The start date of this position is Q3 2026, with preference for candidates who can start immediately. We expect a minimum one-year commitment, with regular professional development conversations and the potential for a long-term career at IDinsight.

Compensation

Compensation and benefits are commensurate with the qualifications and experience IDinsight is hiring for and are competitive within the global development sector. We are especially proud of the people-focused benefits we offer, including comprehensive international health insurance with mental health coverage; paid vacation, sick, and parental leave; relocation benefits; a travel stipend; technology and work-from-home stipends; a professional development budget; and more.

Please note that, as a non-profit, we are unable to provide compensation comparable to that of leading private-sector organizations.

How to Apply

Please click the "Apply for this job online" button at the top right. Applications are rolling and are considered as they are submitted. The application asks various questions in order for us to get to know you and requires a CV and cover letter.

Please ensure that your CV includes relevant professional and personal experience as well as details on academic qualifications. CVs can range from one to two pages. Please note that headshot photographs, parental details, birth dates, marital status, and other personal information not relevant to the application do not need to be included in your CV. Additionally, we strongly encourage you to use your cover letter to highlight why you want to work for IDinsight specifically, and what has prepared you to succeed in the role you're applying for. A customized cover letter is an important part of IDinsight's recruiting process as it allows us to understand your motivations for the position, relevant skills, and clarity of writing.

More information, including details on IDinsight's hiring process and frequently asked questions, is available on IDinsight Careers. Any questions should be directed to [redacted].