Required

• Track record of success in seeking, obtaining, and renewing multi-year 6- and 7-figure grants from private foundations
• Demonstrated experience managing the full grant-cycle of multiple institutional donors
• Outstanding verbal communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to understand needs, connect opportunities, and prioritize capacities
• Strong English-language writing and editing skills
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, including the ability to collaborate on proposal development and writing projects in a multicultural environment across time zones
• Strong project management and organizational skills, particularly the ability to shepherd a collaborative deliverable to meet a deadline and to work independently on its completion
• Demonstrated knowledge of funder prospecting practices, grantmaking and reporting cycles, proposal writing, and administration
• Understanding of detailed and multi programmatic budgeting
• Commitment to environmental, climate, and social justice and deep mission alignment with GAIA

Desired

• Experience working within an international/multicultural organization
• Experience furthering diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in fund development
• Experience implementing streamlined systems, processes, and organizational structures to support increased revenue and transaction volume
• Spanish language skills

Required

• 5-7 years of professional experience in non-profit human resources.
• Familiarity with people management principles and a proven track record of innovating to improve beyond best practices.
• Excellent organizational, coaching, and leadership skills. Experience creating strong relationships with remote team members, and/or building team culture in a virtual setting, and demonstrated ability to lead and support teams across gender, race, class, sexual orientation, nationality, and other identities.
• Track record of identifying opportunities and taking action to build inclusion and equity into organizational strategy, culture, employee engagement, and professional development. Strong insight into dynamics around oppression and identity, power, and privilege in professional settings, including international inequities.
• Strong project manager, highly organized and detail-oriented, capable of balancing and prioritizing concurrent projects and deadlines. Experience using technical and online systems for coordination.
• Demonstrated experience creating and improving organizational structures, processes, and systems.
• Strong interpersonal skills and self-awareness, commitment to growth and skill-building, comfort-seeking out feedback to identify personal blind spots.
• Outstanding verbal and written skills in the following: communication, emotional intelligence, conflict resolution, and interpersonal relationships and dynamics.
• Experience working with and supporting grassroots organizations and their members.
• Flexibility and positive attitude, excitement about responsive network-centric work.
• Deep mission alignment with GAIA.

Desired

• Experience working in one or more of the movement sectors GAIA works in or is adjacent to, including environmental and climate justice, worker rights and just transition, zero waste and circular economy, anti-racism and anti-imperialism, or gender and other social justice movements.
• Experience working or living outside of the U.S., and/or working with international teams.
• Experience working with finance staff and/or accountants to manage a program or organizational budget, and spreadsheet skills.
• Experience with major donor and/or foundation fundraising.
• Substantial experience working or volunteering for grassroots organizing or advocacy campaigns.
• Other language skills (especially Spanish, or secondarily Portuguese, Chinese, or French).
• Existing familiarity with GAIA and/or our members.
• Lives in or near the San Francisco Bay Area.