Affiliate Resource Mobilization Manager

Job Title: Affiliate Resource Mobilization Manager

Employee Type: Permanent Full-Time

Reports to: Senior Organizing Director

Hours per week: 40

Salary: $81,689 - $85,421, depending on experience, with competitive benefits package

Location: Remote

BACKGROUND:

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) is the leading national voice for dignity, respect, and recognition for domestic workers in the United States. NDWA was founded in 2007 by organizers and worker leaders in six cities representing nannies, house cleaners, and care workers, and now represents an alliance of more than 76 organizations across 22 states and 395,000 domestic workers nationally.

We envision a society where domestic work is valued as essential to our collective well-being, domestic workers are leaders in shaping the care sector, and domestic work jobs are good, economically secure jobs.

For over 15 years, we’ve worked to advance our mission by making domestic work visible. We’ve worked to pass policies that enable rights and higher wages for domestic workers across the country, changed public awareness and opinion about the dignity and value of care work, and built the capacity and leadership of domestic workers to organize and advocate for their rights.

We see the next era of our organization as an opportunity to move domestic work from newfound visibility towards transformation, and we’re ready to elevate care workers to the essential workers of the 21st-century economy.

We’re a multi-racial, multi-lingual organization building a powerful movement rooted in the human rights, dignity, and equality of domestic workers, care workers, immigrant women, and women of color.

Position Description

The National Domestic Workers Alliance (www.domesticworkers.org) organizes domestic workers in the United States for respect, recognition, and labor rights. We work to raise standards for domestic workers by winning legislative and budgetary campaigns at the municipal, state, and national levels; pushing for regulatory changes and ensuring enforcement of domestic worker rights; through culture change work; and by elevating domestic workers as key leaders in building a powerful movement for social and economic justice. The Alliance formed in 2007 at the US Social Forum and currently represents 70 local affiliate organizations and local NDWA-run chapters, and a growing number of domestic workers in our national membership association.

The Affiliate Resource Mobilization Manager is responsible for building the capacity of NDWA’s local affiliates, which are independent nonprofit organizations that lead local domestic worker campaigns and basebuilding, and form the foundation of the national movement. This will include training and advising on fundraising strategy and communications, developing templates and resources for affiliate staff, and conducting research on potential funders and donors. They will also advance NDWA’s organizational goal of supporting the growth and sustainability of our affiliates by managing our $3M+ regranting program.

The Affiliate Resource Mobilization Manager is part of the field team, which supports our local and national domestic worker base-building and organizing work. They are supervised by the Senior Organizing Director. They work in close partnership with the NDWA Development team to ensure fundraising efforts are complementary and strategically aligned, as well as with our affiliate organizations. They take a lead role in project managing our regranting program, including managing Requests for Proposals, reviewing affiliate grant applications, coordinating various stakeholders for the program, and ensuring timely grant disbursements and related reporting.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate for this role is a strong writer and communicator, in both English and Spanish, who has knowledge of both grassroots organizing and fundraising strategies. They are a diligent project manager, able to manage multiple programs and timelines, and adapt systems for a variety of audiences and institutions.

Job Responsibilities

Affiliate Capacity-Building in Fundraising

• Design and deliver trainings to develop fundraising skills for NDWA affiliates
• Provide 1:1 coaching to affiliate staff on fundraising strategies and other support for organizational sustainability
• Identify and implement tools to support fundraising and communications, including donor tracking
• Create templates for grant proposals, case statements, and other development resources to assist affiliates with effective fundraising
• Conduct research on foundation and/or individual donor prospects for affiliates
• Provide guidance to individual affiliate organizations on how to identify new funding sources, cultivate and sustain donor relationships, build donor stewardship, and develop solicitation strategies

NDWA Regrant Program Management

• Manage the RFP process for NDWA’s annual affiliate regrants, including updating and disseminating RFPs, receiving proposals, and communicating with affiliates about RFPs.
• Review, synthesize, and generate summaries of affiliate grant proposals for NDWA Board, staff, and funder review.
• Schedule and participate in interviews with affiliates and take notes about their proposals and work.
• Convene NDWA staff and Board committees to review, evaluate, and decide on regrant amounts and scope.
• Coordinate the generation of regrant agreements with the NDWA legal team, and disbursement of grant funds with the finance team, ensuring disbursements are made according to set timelines, with regular communication and transparency to affiliates.
• Monitor and document grantmaking processes, forms, templates, reports, and data to ensure full compliance with internal controls and legal requirements.
• Create, send, and review grant reporting tools with affiliates via email, surveys, and phone calls; provide technical assistance on grant reporting as needed.
• Synthesize reports, providing analysis on key learnings and feedback.

Field and Development Team Support

• Consult and collaborate with the NDWA Development team in a regular and structured way to ensure fundraising efforts are complementary, align on strategy, and share best practices and learnings.
• Support the NDWA Development team’s reporting and proposal writing (content generation) on field and local work.
• Support overall capacity-building programs for affiliates provided by the field team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Minimum 5 years of non-profit experience with 3 years in fundraising
• Understanding of labor or community organizing strategies
• Experience developing and executing fundraising strategies for grassroots organizations
• Strong project management skills, proficiency with project management tools, ability to set priorities and adhere to timelines with meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to develop and adapt systems that work for a variety of constituents and organizational forms
• Experience with training and facilitation
• Strong interpersonal and communication (verbal & written) skills
• Ability to work independently and with groups of diverse individuals in respectful, equitable, and inclusive ways
• Bilingual English/Spanish speaker
• Familiarity with organizing strategies with low-wage workers and knowledge of the domestic worker sector preferred
• Familiarity with nonprofit databases (e.g., EveryAction, Salesforce) a major plus