Senior Manager of WASH Partnerships

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Manager of WASH Partnerships based in United States. This role focuses on building and stewarding institutional partnerships that advance sustainable water, sanitation, and hygiene services globally. You will manage a portfolio of institutional donors and prospects while supporting the development of a strong and diversified funding pipeline. The position combines relationship management, grant development, donor stewardship, sector engagement, and organizational thought leadership. You will work across programs, finance, communications, and leadership teams to develop compelling proposals and strengthen long-term partnerships. You will also represent the organization across the global WASH sector, identifying opportunities for collaboration, learning, and visibility. This is an opportunity to contribute directly to both sustainable funding and meaningful progress in global water and sanitation access. Accountabilities - Manage a portfolio of institutional funding partners and prospects, serving as the primary relationship manager for assigned accounts and cultivating strong, long-term partnerships. - Support the institutional funding pipeline by identifying, qualifying, cultivating, and stewarding prospective donors whose priorities align with organizational strategy. - Coordinate grant proposal development across departments, ensuring submissions are timely, high-quality, well-positioned, and aligned with donor requirements and organizational priorities. - Develop and contribute to donor engagement and stewardship strategies that strengthen relationships and create opportunities for future funding. - Maintain accurate information on grant opportunities, commitments, and projected revenue to support organizational forecasting, fundraising planning, and decision-making.

- Conduct research on donors, foundations, institutions, and prospective partners to identify new funding and collaboration opportunities within the WASH sector. - Review grant reports and support compliance with donor requirements throughout the full grant lifecycle. - Collaborate with program, finance, communications, and leadership teams to ensure proposals, agreements, reporting, and partnership activities meet both organizational and donor expectations. - Maintain accurate grant, donor, and partnership information within CRM and project management systems. - Build and maintain relationships with peer organizations, research institutions, foundations, professional networks, and other stakeholders across the global WASH ecosystem. - Represent the organization at WASH conferences, webinars, sector events, collaborative initiatives, and other external engagements. - Identify and develop strategic partnerships that strengthen both programmatic impact and fundraising opportunities. - Contribute to thought leadership through publications, presentations, blogs, external content, and other sector-facing materials that communicate evidence, learning, and impact. - Coordinate with communications, programs, and technical teams to translate organizational research, evidence, and learning into compelling external narratives. - Support presentations and briefing materials for donor meetings, sector events, and partnership engagements. - Promote the sharing of research, best practices, lessons learned, and programmatic insights across relevant networks and contribute to organizational knowledge management. - Participate in organizational planning, fundraising discussions, departmental initiatives, and internal process improvement efforts related to grants management and partnership development. - Mentor junior team members or interns when assigned and contribute to broader organizational priorities as needed.