Remuneration:

• €89,399 - €92,379 if in Netherlands

• USD $128,487 - $133,206 if in United States

• GBP £79,230 - £82,277 if in United Kingdom

If the successful candidate is outside of Singapore, NL, UK, or USA, the salary and benefits will be adjusted based on local market equivalencies.

About Us

The Sunrise Project is a global network of independent organizations united by a common mission: scaling social movements to drive the global transition beyond fossil fuels. We've developed a unique model that combines strategic grant-making with campaigning, supporting interconnected organizations to create powerful change aligned with our mission.

Sunrise Inc. is a proud member of The Sunrise Project network. Our organizational culture is dynamic and adaptable. We're committed to supporting our team members to thrive as we tackle the urgent challenge of climate change. We believe that a diversity of experiences and perspectives strengthens our strategies, teams, and movements.

Sunrise Inc. takes the broadest possible view of diversity and encourages First Nations people, people of colour, people living outside of cities, people living with disabilities, neurodiverse, and LGBTQIA+ people to apply. We are continually working on becoming a better workplace for everyone.  Find out more here.

About the Program

The Sunrise Organising Lab (SOL) is a program of The Sunrise Project that works to build a more powerful and effective movement to shift finance out of fossil fuels and into clean energy. We do this by focusing on three key areas: strategy design and iteration across our campaigns and with our partners; partnerships and regranting to ensure we’re scaling organisations and ecosystems to win; and powerbuilding and constituency organising to bring in new, needed groups to shift key stakeholders while also growing the number and types of voices in our movement.

About The Role

This is a new, senior level role who will make our partnerships and grantmaking more strategic. This position will serve as key oversight of partnerships, regranting, reporting on our ecosystem, and leading key cross-team grants to ensure our grantmaking is aligned with strategy, our partnership principles, and that we’re supporting our partners, teams, and network to succeed. 

The Sunrise Project’s Global Finance team is focused on supporting and nurturing strategic networks of NGOs, civil society organizations, and other groups to design and run campaigns that shift finance out of fossil fuels. Some of these partners are grounded in grassroots communities on the frontlines of fossil fuel expansion or the clean energy build out; some are core constituencies in shifting politics to secure policies; others are elite decision makers in companies who can shift power away from fossil fuels or towards renewable energy. This role will ensure we’re developing collaborative partnerships; making strategic grants, and understanding the ecosystems and networks we’re working with.

This role will work with the entire Global Finance team to lead our partnership and grantmaking practices to ensure they’re in line with our principles; strategies, and our overall mission. This will include leading the redesign of and training on Global Finance practices working with and understanding our partners and making grants; leading on key cross program grants; building out movement metrics; and producing reports that show the ecosystems and networks we’re funding and the gaps within them. 

We support networks of organisations to work together to achieve outcomes that would not be possible by individual organisations acting alone. We expect all roles at Sunrise to actively support the capacity building of these networks and partner organisations. 

About You

You’ll need to be a skilled leader and grantmaker, with experience in making grants, fundraising, and/or raising funds for a group or NGO yourself. You understand the complexities of power and money in the context of strategy and winning. This means you’ll need to be a campaigner or organizer yourself, with a commitment to winning outcomes on climate finance and justice. 

You’re analytical and intuitive, excited about digging into the data of reports and metrics so we know what we’re building and measuring but also of understanding the dynamics of social settings, with high emotional awareness. 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead on work across the Global Finance team to ensure strategic partnerships and grants. Co-design, oversee and manage the updated grantmaking process and practices, ensuring smooth transitions and designing deep connections between grantmaking and strategy development.

• Design and implement needed trainings, support spaces, resources and materials for all of Global Finance to support grantmaking shifts, including creating and implementing shared principles and practices to ensure we’re making grants aligned with project strategy, partner capacity, and ecosystem gaps including winddowns and exits. 

• Collaborate with senior leadership on finessing and implementing  movement metrics that measure building and leveraging power and implement these across the Global Finance team.

• Train the Global Finance team to implement and socialise movement metrics and strategic partnerships practices  including measuring current strategic capacities, understanding partner’s future growth goals on areas, etc.

• Lead reporting and analysis, including implementation support of a program wide CRM and producing reports for the SOL team, funders, and other stakeholders as needed.

• Steer regranting for finance core partners and support other cross program grantmaking as needed. Offer resources and guidance to enhance partner capacities and identify potential collaboration across other projects and programs.

• Implement updated SOL grantmaking criteria; and improve grant processes in collaboration with multiple Sunrise teams.

• Support fundraising, working with other funders and regranters, and identifying potential movement funders as needed. 

• Aligns own work and OKR’s with Sunrise’s mission and values. 

Required skills and experience    

• At least 7 years experience in grantmaking in a philanthropic space (funder and/or regranter) and/or direct and substantial experience fundraising for an NGO

• Advanced level experience in developing trainings, resources, and supporting people to use them

• Strong understanding of strategic grant-making 

• Embodied ability to build relationships based on trust, consistent communication, address tension, work through challenges across teams, and support partners and teams to succeed 

• Proven experience in technical outputs, including demonstrated experience in data management, report pulling, list management, data cleaning, and reporting. Direct experience in HubSpot or similar CRM preferred.

• Experience training stakeholders of all levels in grantmaking and/or campaign concepts 

• Demonstrated strong project management skills and balancing changing priorities

• Proven experience collaborating with people across different backgrounds and locations 

• Capacity to translate reports into consumable information 

• Understanding of how social movements operate to make change

Job requirements

• You must have full working rights in the country in which you will be working. The Sunrise Project is unable to sponsor applicants for employment visas.

• Employment background checks are required.

• Previous employment reference checks will be required for successful applicants

• Attend local in person partner actions.

• Intermittent travel with advanced notice may be/is required.

• COVID-19 vaccinations may apply in accordance with local legislation and/or Sunrise policy.

How Sunrise supports its staff

The Sunrise Project is committed to creating a workplace that supports our staff to do their best work and develop professionally. Sunrise has the following in place to help us achieve that, noting pro rata will apply for part time staff and/or temporarily appointed-fixed term staff.  The successful candidate will be hired via a Professional Employment Organisation (PEO) on behalf of the Sunrise Project, so conditions of employment may vary.  

• Statutory benefits and entitlements of the country in which you are employed.

• Sunrise may provide additional benefits, where in-country entitlements are less than our standard package, where applicable including:

  • Paid Parental Leave that is gender-neutral & inclusive of all types of families, incl. Parental Return To Work & Keeping In Touch Program

  • Life Leave (up to 40 days p.a. for significant personal reasons)

  • Public Holiday + Cultural Leave

  • Workspace Benefits incl: Macbook & accessories, initial $2,000* for home workspace & IT equipment + $800* every 2 years + up to $75/mth phone/data/internet (equivalent local currency) .

  • Shared office support

Additionally we offer:

• Flexible Working Policy

• VIDA - An AI tool to support your health and wellbeing

• Regular all-org and team meetings & retreats

• Learning & Development Program incl. a professional development budget for every staff member

• Coaching & manager support with regular 1:1 meetings

• Annual performance & development reviews with 360 feedback

• A co-developed work plan to ensure clarity on your role & key responsibilities

• We provide our staff with a voice on issues that concern them via consultation, caucuses, working groups, and surveys.