Senior Resource Acquisition Manager

Position description

Senior Resource Acquisition Manager

Position type: Full-time, Salaried, Exempt

Location: Flexible (remote); Must be located and eligible to work in the U.S.

Salary range: $82,400-92,700

Closing date: February 13, 2026

Candidates will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The position will remain open until we have a sufficient pool of diverse candidates who meet the job requirements, at which point we may pause the review of new applications before the stated deadline. Please understand that you may not be contacted for several weeks after you apply.

Ideal start date: 2-4 weeks after offer

About the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

CDP began in 2010 with the goal of pioneering the practice of strategic disaster philanthropy. Since then, it has grown in its ambition, envisioning a world where the impact of disasters is minimized through thoughtful, equitable and responsive recovery for all. CDP has a $40 million budget and a team of more than 30 staff members working remotely across the U.S.

CDP is a trusted partner, expert and authoritative resource helping hundreds of individuals, foundations and corporations boost the impact of philanthropic giving in response to disaster and humanitarian crises by supporting equitable recovery and addressing root causes of vulnerabilities worldwide.

In 2024, CDP awarded approximately $16 million through 78 grants to grantee partners worldwide, demonstrated thought leadership through webinars, blog posts, featured speaking engagements and other events, and served 20+ philanthropic partners through consulting efforts.

• In 2020, CDP was a featured nonprofit for the 14th Annual CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.
• CDP has earned Charity Navigator’s Four-Star Charity rating, Candid’s Platinum Transparency seal and is a Better Business Bureau Accredited Charity.

As an organization grounded in racial and intersectional equity, our team members are deeply committed to strengthening communities most vulnerable to disasters because of systemic inequities. We are guided by our values of integrity, boldness and innovation, humility and empathy in all we do in pursuit of our mission.

Bottom line: We aspire to walk the talk of anti-racism and to treat each other and our partners in ways that inspire trust, creativity, learning and care.

Be a part of our fast-growing team that offers countless ways to help communities thrive. Join us!

Responsibilities & duties

The senior resource acquisition manager will report to the vice president of strategy and innovation and will play a critical role in supporting CDP’s mission through guiding business development for cross-departmental, complex, restricted grants. This role is responsible for identifying, cultivating, and securing these more complex programmatic philanthropic funding opportunities**,** including large grants focused on disaster philanthropy, corporate partnerships and strategic investments for catalytic innovations at the intersection of disaster and philanthropic giving. This role blends high-level relationship building, proposal strategy and internal process leadership and coordination to expand the organization’s revenue portfolio and ensure strong alignment between external opportunities and programmatic priorities.

This position is ideal for a strategic business development professional who thrives in small-team environments and can independently lead sophisticated proposal development and grant capture processes. This role will be essential in realizing the CDP’s core goals of:

• Increasing revenue to fund and deliver on CDP’s mission.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with institutional funders interested in more sophisticated programmatic partnerships with CDP.
• Expanding CDP’s restricted grants capture capacity across departments to accelerate innovation and cross-team efforts.

As a fully remote workforce, CDP prioritizes employee engagement and relationship building in service of a collaborative culture rooted in equity. To this end, in-person team retreats are scheduled throughout the year in different regions of the U.S. This role will be expected to attend 2-3 retreats per year, which average 3-5 days of travel.

The successful candidate will display the following traits:

You are an energetic, persuasive and collaborative thinker and executor of business development planning and processes. You provide new and actionable recommendations for CDP on grant opportunities beyond current private funding relationships.

You think strategically to make sense of complex issues and can adapt ideas and communication to a wide variety of potential client/donor audiences, including simplifying language for digestibility to non-experts. You are an excellent business development process manager with high-level strategic skills to build internal capacity, systems and protocols and to grow this exciting portfolio of work with clarity and ambition.

You are a servant leader who fosters an open and highly equitable environment for colleagues and — as relevant — direct reports. As a member of the strategy and innovation team, you communicate effectively with members of the team and other internal and external stakeholders, conveying your ideas and proposals in a way that is easy to understand and inspires action. You are a consummate and curious professional, assertive without being domineering, and can execute with excellence on both discrete and ongoing deliverables. You share a commitment to the values intrinsic to CDP’s mission and strategy.

Primary responsibilities include:

Strategic funding analysis & ppportunity pipeline development

• Identify and track emerging funding trends relevant to CDP’s mission.
• Lead early “capture” strategy for complex opportunities; engage in funder research, competitive analysis, partnership positioning and opportunity forecasting.
• Work within strategy and innovation and across teams to identify and develop strategically aligned win themes and corresponding proposals for relevant RFPs or unsolicited pitches.
• In collaboration with the development team, identify, build and manage a high-value pipeline of prospective funders and funding opportunities, including foundations, corporate giving programs and high-net-worth philanthropists for specific grant capture based on existing or new strategic priorities across CDP.
• Prioritize opportunities in collaboration with relevant ET members, based on CDP strategic plan and priorities, organizational readiness, and comparative advantage.
• Maintain an accurate and real-time “Opportunity” pipeline in RENXT for all active restricted grant pursuits, ensuring close date, ask amount and “Stage” (e.g., Qualification, Proposal Submitted) are current for monthly revenue forecasting.

Proposal development & writing

• Lead and/or coordinate the development of go/no-go processes, concept notes, pitch papers, client SoWs and full proposals for multi-year, multi-stakeholder or innovation-oriented funding opportunities.
• Translate cross-team concepts and ideas into clear, compelling narratives, measurable outcomes and investment cases, tailored to donors for solicited and unsolicited proposals.
• Support director of innovation and special projects and special projects manager with catalytic innovation designs and pitches.
• Support director of advisory services and expert advisory services manager with client-facing, “fee for service” business development, including cost analyses, creation of scopes of work (SoWs) and budgets, as needed and as available.
• Support fund management & coalition building team in coalition-related acquisition as well as innovative grantmaking fund acquisition.
• Collaborate with finance team on budget development for restricted grant opportunities.
• Develop proposal outlines, calendars and compliance checklists and shepherd processes with colleagues engaged in opportunities.
• Ensure all submissions are aligned with funder requirements and organizational standards.

Funder Relationship Management

• In conjunction and alignment with the development team and other CDP staff, cultivate relationships with institutional and family foundation program officers, philanthropic advisors, corporate social impact leads, and other key stakeholders
• As directed, conduct outreach meetings, represent the organization in briefings and facilitate engagement between CDP staff and funders.
• Document all substantive funder interactions (emails, briefings, and “go/no-go” decisions) in RENXT to preserve institutional memory and support post-award transitions.
• Participate in cross-team prospect strategy meetings to facilitate relationship engagement and optimized revenue generation.
• Support post-award activities, including execution on grant administration deliverables, reporting, impact storytelling and funder communications.

Build out Restricted Resource Acquisition Model and Processes

• Partner with VPs and directors to align funding opportunities with strategic priorities and operational capacity.
• In collaboration with finance, development and other teams, develop and disseminate resource acquisition protocols, procedures, systems and business tools that promote CDP capacity to capture restricted grants.
• Help create and execute internal pre-award processes for opportunity assessment, proposal development, and as needed for post-award management.
• Identify and implement process improvements for pre-award and as needed for post-award, working cross functionally across teams and also within SI.
• Contribute to revenue forecasting, annual development planning, and performance measurement.

Required qualifications and skills

• 7–10 years (or equivalent) of progressively responsible experience demonstrated through expertise in resource acquisition, business development and strategic partnerships within nonprofits, philanthropy, or adjacent fields.
• Experience in disaster-related resource acquisition, particularly within philanthropic sector.
• Demonstrated success securing significant private-sector funding (e.g., six- or seven-figure grants/partnerships) across multiple philanthropic funder types.
• Strong experience building and leading complex proposal development processes.
• Excellent writing, communication, and storytelling skills that can effectively persuade key decision-makers to take recommended actions.
• Superior project management and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and a strong sense of personal responsibility for work.
• Familiarity with donor databases/CRMs and pipeline management best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to make decisions with wide latitude and work independently in a small, fast-paced, mission-driven team.

Preferred qualifications and skills

• Experience with multi-stakeholder initiatives, cross-sector partnerships and collective impact models.
• Experience with corporate philanthropy and/or DAF industry is a plus.
• Ability to inspire and guide others, foster innovation and cultivate a collaborative and accountable work environment.

We welcome and encourage applicants with non-traditional career paths. If you don’t meet the qualifications outlined here, please apply and tell us how your experiences would equip you for the job.

Application instructions

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