• Oversee the campaign workplan and calendar, ensuring activities remain on track.
• Lead bi-weekly Climate: Possible Development Team Working Group Meetings; including agenda development, member engagement, and follow-up on action items.
• Manage monthly Climate: Possible Leadership Committee Meetings; including input from team leaders, agenda development, and follow-up on action items.
• Coordinate quarterly updates and reporting for Goal 4 of Mercy Corps’ Climate Smart Commitment.
• Continuously identify and implement improvements to the management and operations of the campaign in the most efficient, effective, and equitable ways possible.

• Support the finalization of the annual climate donor report; including overseeing project management, supporting report design (as needed), and ensuring dissemination to donors, prospects, and MC teams.
• Manage a system to track and report the impact and reach of climate programs, based on a set of harmonized results measures (including restricted and flexible grants), and ensure Development Team grants are in compliance.
• Develop and manage anchor donor engagement, including bi-annual impact updates and leadership briefings.

• Oversee the Climate: Possible Pooled Fund initiatives; including allocation and financial management of fund and awards, tracking initiatives and support/ check-ins as needed, and identifying donor engagement opportunities.
• Support the Senior Directors of Corporate and Foundation Partnerships and the Office of the Chief Climate Officer in launching a second round of Climate: Possible Pooled Fund initiatives, as needed.
• Maintain and update a suite of strategic climate solutions in collaboration with Regional and Country Teams, TRaQ, and Relationship Managers, to utilize in pursuit of private fundraising opportunities; this includes revisiting the suite quarterly with Regional Teams and provide ongoing process support to Regional Teams and Relationship Managers.
• Contribute to the creation and refinement of new and existing campaign assets based on the development of strategic climate solutions and gaps identified in consultation with Relationship Managers and Deputies.
• Ensure progress of a Climate: Possible ‘Advisory’ Group in partnership with the Chief Development Officer and Chief Climate Officer; including support of the overall strategy and individual members’ engagement plans.

• Manage quarterly Climate: Possible Fundraiser Meetings; including developing the agenda, coordinating contributions from individual team members, developing the deck and/or supporting materials, and following up with post-meeting action items.
• Develop and distribute the bi-monthly Climate: Possible Development Team newsletter; including tracking content over time, soliciting input from team members, and engaging team members on improvements.
• Support quarterly ‘Climate Connect’ technical engagements with TRaQ, program, and research teams to strengthen Development Team technical knowledge, as needed.
• Facilitate communications to Mercy Corps leadership about Climate: Possible, as requested by the Chief Development Officer.
• Collaborate with the Development Team and other Mercy Corps teams to seek out and implement ways to enhance internal accessibility and knowledge-sharing of the campaign.

• Regularly review Climate: Possible revenue and pipeline dashboard, addressing issues with Development Operations, as needed.
• Support accurate campaign pipeline management, in coordination with the Director of Fundraising Strategy & Services and Development Operations, as needed.
• Track cumulative Climate: Possible KPIs, in partnership with Team Leads and Development Operations.

Reports Directly To: Senior Director, Foundation Partnerships

Works Directly With: Senior Directors of Corporate and Foundation Partnerships, Strategic Partnerships and Philanthropy, and MCinE Development, Director of Fundraising Strategy & Services, and VIP of High Impact Philanthropy; key stakeholders in Development, including the Communications and Operations teams; the Office of the Chief Climate Officer; Technical Resources and Quality (TRaQ); Regional Program Teams, including Regional leaderships, Program Officers, Country Directors, Technical Advisors; and Finance.

Accountability to Participants and Stakeholders
Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts toward accountability, specifically to our program participants, community partners, other stakeholders, and to international standards guiding international relief and development work. We are committed to actively engaging communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

Minimum Qualifications & Transferable Skills

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) and 5+ years of progressive experience in increasingly responsible roles with program and/or fundraising teams.
• Proven ability to effectively manage projects while prioritizing competing priorities.
• Excellent project and work management skills, including the ability to organize tasks, establish priorities, and follow through in a timely manner.
• Understanding of climate adaptation, international aid, and development required.
• Experience in fundraising campaigns is a plus.
• Proficiency in English (spoken, written, and reading) is required. Fluency in an additional language, such as French, Spanish, or Arabic, is a plus.
• Excellent writing, editing, and communication skills are required, with a proven ability to “translate” technical language into compelling content.
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills.
• Strong problem-solving, interpersonal, and intercultural skills.
• Experience developing and executing strategies within diverse, international, and distributed teams is highly desirable.
• Intermediate or higher proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Teams, SharePoint, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.