Work at Green America and make the world a better place.
Our staff teams work together to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. We have a positive and collaborative organizational culture and great benefits. We value justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Learn more about our current openings.
Our Background & Impact
Our organization was founded in 1982 as Co-Op America. You’re applying to an organization with a long history of victories. We also have a 4.3 rating on Glassdoor and are a four-star charity with Charity Navigator too!
We're curbing the climate crisis and getting the largest corporations to switch to clean energy. We're protecting millions of people in the workplace and pushing for safe and healthy working conditions for ALL workers. We're helping people find healthy, safe products from the most innovative green businesses and financial institutions. And we're reinventing the way food is grown with regenerative agriculture that absorbs carbon and saves our soil!
Green America Employee Benefits
Our benefits help create a strong, effective, empathetic, diverse workforce. For example, pay transparency helps decrease the gender and racial wage gaps. Remote work opportunities can also foster a more diverse workforce overall. Our weekly, in-house tech sessions keep our skills up to date. And our four-day workweek supports a better work-life balance.
Benefits include:
- Being part of a dynamic, innovative team to build the green economy for all people
- Salary transparency
- Participatory workplace in which staff have a voice in key organizational issues
- Four-day workweeks, Monday-Thursday
- Remote work option
- Socially & environmental responsible retirement plan options
- Pre-tax Metro benefit card (savings on local DC transportation)
- Medical, dental, disability insurance, Flex Spending Account (FSA)
- Paid vacation, sick and dependent care leave
- Paid parental and long-term care-giver leave
Highlights from our Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Statement
Our work focuses on economic systems because our national and global economies systemically disadvantage people of color, Indigenous peoples, ethnic and religious minorities, women, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and other minoritized communities worldwide.
Today’s economic systems privilege the wealthy and powerful at the expense of natural systems and workers worldwide.
At Green America, your work will contribute to a world where all people have enough, where all communities are healthy and safe, and where the abundance of the Earth is preserved for generations to come.
Each of our staff members contribute to a healthy, supportive, socially-just work culture, and every position at the organization has a role in advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI) at Green America.
Equal Opportunity Statement
Green America is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination regarding: actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, breastfeeding, or reproductive health disorders), age (18 years of age or older), marital status (including domestic partnership and parenthood), personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, genetic information, disability, matriculation, political affiliation, citizenship status, credit information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. Harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic is included as a form of discrimination and is strictly prohibited.
Applying to Green America
Applying is easy and streamlined. Just check out the open positions below and email the requested materials to the hiring manager listed.
Available Positions
Part-Time Senior Grants Manager
- Position Description: Part-time (20 hours per week) manager of active foundation grants
- Supervisor: Director of Development & Organizational Advancement
- Benefits Summary: Excellent benefits including health care, dental, cooperative work environment, and flexible work week
- Start Date: Spring 2025
- Job Location: Remote
- Compensation: $45,000-50,000
Organizational Background
Green America harnesses economic power – the strength of consumers, investors, businesses, and the marketplace – to create a socially just and environmentally sustainable society. Our niche is economic action, and we work to shift our economy to one that works for all people and our planet. Our economic strategies deploy solutions to our society’s most pressing problems – from climate change to social injustices.
We direct our efforts within three strategic hubs: 1) our Consumer & Corporate Engagement Programs where we activate individual consumers and investors to create change within corporations and economic systems; 2) our Green Business Network which was the first network of businesses in the US focusing on the triple bottom line of people, planet, and profit; and 3) our Center for Sustainability Solutions which brings together diverse groups of stakeholders along supply chains to solve the complex sustainability problems that no individual business, organization, or leader can solve alone.
Job Role and Responsibilities
We seek an experienced development professional to work closely with members of the Development and Programs Teams to renew and increase funding from active foundation supporters. The part-time Senior Grants Manager will join the Development Team, which includes Director of Development & Organizational Advancement, Director of Major Gifts, Donor Engagement Manager, and Director of Fund Development. The Executive Co-Directors and President & CEO are extended team members, as they play key fundraising roles.
Primary responsibilities include:
- Manage our portfolio of 25-30 active grants, meeting all reporting and proposal deadlines and stewarding these key supporters for ongoing and increased support.
- Develop a deep understanding of Green America’s mission and programs to develop compelling proposals and reports for general and programmatic support.
- Write and produce all reports and renewal proposals for active foundations, with guidance from key team members on our Corporate & Consumer Engagement, Green Business Network, and Communications teams.
- Maintain a detailed calendar and timelines for tasks to meet all grant deadlines.
- Help coordinate program update meetings with foundation staff (in-person or video chat).
- Complete grant acknowledgement and thank you letters.
- Coordinate personalized quarterly publication mailings and tailored email updates to all active foundations.
- Keep each foundation apprised of Green America’s victories and accomplishments within their respective funding areas.
- Develop/Maintain strong, positive relationships with active foundation supporters.
- Coordinate all of this work with the Director Fund Development, Director of Grants and Partnerships for the Center, and Director of Development.
- Maintain record of all interactions and deadlines in Raisers Edge.
QUALIFICATIONS
Qualified candidates should have the following skills and education:
- Bachelor’s or advanced degree
- At least 5 years of experience and demonstrated success in foundation fundraising
- Exceptional writing skills and experience in producing successful grant proposals, grant reports, and letters of inquiry
- Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to meet tight deadlines
- Exemplary communications skills, interpersonal skills, and professionalism
- Ability to build long-term relationships with key stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to use a CRM to manage fundraising efforts, and track actions and deadlines (experience with Raiser’s Edge a plus)
- Proven ability to effectively work in coordination with other team leaders
- Strong intrinsic interest in issues directly related to Green America’s mission
- Ability to obtain a deep understanding of Green America’s program areas and communicate this to funders
- Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) certification a plus.
If interested please send a cover letter, resume, and writing sample to Kathy Harget, Director of Development & Organizational Advancement: kharget@greenamerica.org.
