Job Title: Senior Manager, Institutional Giving

Employee Type: Permanent FTE

Reports To: Senior Director, Institutional Giving

Department: Development

Entity: NDWA and Care in Action

Hours per Week: 40

Salary: $89,116 - $93,186

Work Location: Remote

Start Date: April 1, 2026

BACKGROUND:

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the leading national voice for dignity, respect, and recognition for domestic workers in the United States. NDWA was founded in 2007 by organizers and worker leaders in six cities representing nannies, house cleaners, and care workers, and now represents an alliance of more than 76 organizations across 22 states and 395,000 domestic workers nationally.

We envision a society where domestic work is valued as essential to our collective well-being, domestic workers are leaders in shaping the care sector, and domestic work jobs are good, economically secure jobs.

For over 15 years, we’ve worked to advance our mission by making domestic work visible. We’ve worked to pass policies that enable rights and higher wages for domestic workers across the country, changed public awareness and opinion about the dignity and value of care work, and built the capacity and leadership of domestic workers to organize and advocate for their rights.

We see the next era of our organization as an opportunity to move domestic work from newfound visibility towards transformation, and we’re ready to elevate care workers to the essential workers of the 21st-century economy.

We’re a multi-racial, multi-lingual organization building a powerful movement rooted in the human rights, dignity, and equality of domestic workers, care workers, immigrant women, and women of color.

POSITION SUMMARY:

NDWA and its affiliated 501(c)(4) organization, Care in Action, seek a relationship-driven, systems-oriented Senior Manager, Institutional Giving to play a central role in advancing our institutional fundraising strategy. Reporting to the Senior Director, Institutional Giving, this position is responsible for stewarding and growing a portfolio of institutional funders investing in NDWA and Care in Action’s core strategies, including organizing and policy advocacy.

With strategic oversight from the Senior Director, the Senior Development Manager owns the full fundraising lifecycle for their portfolio — from prospecting and cultivation through solicitation, reporting, and long-term stewardship — with a focus on growing multi-year support as the nonprofit sector navigates an increasingly challenging funding landscape. This role leads the development of compelling proposals, reports, and other funder-facing materials, translating nuanced and far-reaching programs into clear, persuasive narratives that align organizational priorities with funder interests.

The Senior Development Manager works closely with program leaders to represent our movement’s work to institutional funders, including helping prepare program staff for funder meetings and briefings. This role also contributes to team-wide efforts to strengthen core development operations, helping to build and sustain the systems and processes needed to advance long-term sustainability goals.

This position offers the opportunity to engage deeply in movement fundraising across a broad range of programs, while working in a mission-driven environment as part of a high-performing, collaborative team.

PRIMARY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

Funder Engagement and Stewardship (60%)

• Manage an assigned portfolio of institutional funders and prospects across entities, including private foundations and government agencies, ensuring timely and accurate reporting, proposal submissions, and stewardship.

• Draft and edit fundraising materials, including proposals, reports, and other funder-facing communications, translating program work into clear, compelling narratives.

• Contribute to the development and implementation of an annual engagement calendar to support strategic, coordinated outreach across portfolios.

• Collaborate with key programmatic leaders and support their engagement with funders, including preparing materials and tracking interactions.

Prospecting and Cultivation (15%)

• Conduct regular, aggressive prospecting for assigned portfolio, ensuring that research is tracked within team systems, and top leads move into the cultivation pipeline and are successfully converted into new funding.

• With guidance from development teammates, strategically leverage NDWA and Care in Action programmatic leaders to initiate and build relationships with prospective funders.

Staff and Consultant Management (10%)

• Manage work of government grants consultant.

• Collaborate with additional external consultants or vendors on a project basis (e.g., proposals, reports, prospect research).

Data Analysis, Systems, and Other Duties (15%)

• Support the adoption and fine-tuning of new systems for functions such as tracking prospecting, funder engagement, grant management, and revenue reporting as our broader team works to strengthen development operations at NDWA and Care in Action. Support reconciliation and financial forecasting processes.

• Assist with other duties as needed

• Participate in staff meetings, staff study, and staff retreats.

• Attend supervision meetings and complete work plans and reports in a timely manner.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 3-5 years of nonprofit development or equivalent experience, and proven success managing an institutional giving portfolio, ideally in a movement or social justice context.

• Government grants management experience strongly preferred. Experience in 501(c)(4) or PAC fundraising contexts is a plus.

• Knowledge of or willingness to learn about philanthropic trends and donor behavior in the institutional giving landscape.

• Exceptional written and strong verbal communication skills, including experience leading the development of complex grant proposals, reports, and funder materials.

• Strategic thinker with strong systems orientation and meticulous attention to detail — able to design, adopt, and refine processes for key development functions.

• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and adapt.

• Alignment with NDWA’s vision and values, including a commitment to economic, racial, and gender justice.

• Familiarity with the domestic worker sector and issues facing domestic workers and other low-wage workers.

• Ability to work and collaborate with diverse staff in person, remotely, and as part of a high-performing team in a fast-paced, experimental organization.

• Strong organizational and creative problem-solving skills.

• Deep understanding of fundraising data systems and analytics; Salesforce experience strongly preferred.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite.

• Spanish proficiency is a plus.

• Able to travel if needed.

How to Apply: Please apply directly to the job posting with a cover letter, resume, and two samples of recent development writing, preferably for an institutional funder audience. Applications will only be accepted electronically, and solicitations to individual staff are unlikely to be responded to.

NDWA provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

NDWA offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including 100% employer-paid health coverage for employees and their spouse/domestic partner and family members working 30 or more hours per week, as well as a generous paid time off policy.

NDWA is a union employer; this position is a (bargaining unit position).

NDWA participates in the E-Verify program and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.