The Rainforest Alliance is creating a more sustainable world by using social and market forces to protect nature and improve the lives of farmers and forest communities.
To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes.
Our alliance spans 70 countries and includes farmers and forest communities, companies, governments, civil society, and millions of individuals.
Together we work to protect forests and biodiversity, take action on climate, and promote the rights and improve the livelihoods of rural people.
As an international nonprofit organization with more than 30 years of experience in sustainability transformation, we understand that the social and economic well-being of rural communities is tightly connected to ecosystem health.
This knowledge has shaped our rigorous programs to advance sustainable land-use and commodity production.
At the Rainforest Alliance we combat climate change, protect forests and biodiversity, promote human rights, and improve livelihoods.
The enormity of the social and environmental challenges we are facing requires working together in a broad alliance.
This is why we bring farmers, forest communities, companies, and consumers together to change the way the world produces, sources, and consumes.
**Why**
To protect nature and improve lives it's becoming increasingly urgent that we approach the way we use our land and produce food and other products in more sustainable ways.
For this to succeed we need to fundamentally change the way that businesses operate and source, and the choices we all make as consumers.
**How**
Our growing global alliance aims to transform our relationship with our natural resources and each other, to create a better future for people and nature together.
**The Rainforest Alliance encourages diversity and inclusion across the global organization.
With this commitment to diversity, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ages, disability and any other protected group.
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**Position summary**:
Working as part of an international team of fundraising professionals, the Manager, Institutional Relations, South America is responsible for fundraising with institutional donors (multilateral and bilateral agencies, corporate and private foundations) for RA priorities in the region.
The Manager will coordinate with regional teams to manage the fundraising portfolio, leading and/or facilitating donor prospecting, cultivation, stewardship, and reporting.
Locally based in one of three priority countries (Peru, Colombia, Brazil), this role is part of both the Latin America regional team and the global Institutional Relations team, and will report to the Director, Strategic Partnerships and Community Forestry Enterprises (CFEs), LATAM with a matrixed reporting line to the Senior Manager, Institutional Relations.
This role will coordinate closely with a Manager, Institutional Relations, Mesoamerica region to align funding strategies for Latin America, and work in partnership with the Global IR team.
S/he will proactively lead institutional fundraising in South America, coordinating with the global IR team and program colleagues to ensure that regional fundraising targets are met.
This includes linking global and regional priorities and funding strategies, building and monitoring a funding pipeline, facilitating or leading engagement with donors and partners, creating persuasive messages and materials for communications, and assisting with the development and submission of proposals and reports.
Maintaining a strategic portfolio of institutional donors and donor prospects, s/he will develop and regularly update a region-wide engagement plan, ensuring timely follow-up actions, and helping to further strengthen relationships with key institutional donor and partner contacts in the region.
The incumbent will work closely with senior program staff to develop compelling proposals, build creative funding partnerships, and support reporting and donor stewardship.
S/he will engage staff from across the organization, such as programs, global compliance, markets, themes and sectors, and finance staff in the development of detailed funding proposals at the six
- and seven-figure level.
S/he will be expected to directly cultivate potential new funder relationships and pursue creative solutions to leverage new partnerships with donors and companies, cultivating an understanding of RA's strategic priorities and programmatic capabilities with relevant donors.
**Responsibilities**:
- The Rainforest Alliance's Core Values are Impact, Change, Collaboration, Openness and Trust and as such they form the basis of the behaviours we demonstrate.
- Write, adapt, and edit proposals, concept notes, impactful project ide