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.
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.
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.