Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CARE is a humanitarian organization seeking a Senior Writer, Resource Development to create strategic, donor-centered communications supporting transformational philanthropy. The role develops proposals, stewardship reports, donor briefings, campaign materials, executive communications, and rapid-response content while collaborating with fundraisers, country offices, technical experts, marketing teams, and leadership.
Responsibilities
- Develop donor investment cases from concept through final submission (grants, unrestricted and restricted funding proposals, pooled fund, campaigns, and cross-sector investment opportunities
- Translate complex program strategies into compelling donor narratives that are easy to understand and bring a world view of key macro trends to influence narratives
- Partner with multiple relationship managers to tailor messaging to donor interests
- Collaborate with country offices and technical teams to identify funding opportunities and translate programmatic work into compelling donor content
- Ensure all materials reflect donor strategy, organizational priorities and brand standards
- Donor stewardship reports
- Write executive briefings for donor webinar briefings
- Serve as editor for Impact Magazine including development editorial content, layout, coordinating interviews and working on photography with marketing team
- Develop messaging for bi-annual donor campaigns focused on key priorities
- Support executive donor engagement with email development, video scripts and website updates
- Ensure consistency of voice across donor communications
- Support AI management workflows
- Produce emergency proposals and appeals under compressed timelines
- Develop rapid-response donor updates
- Support innovation in fundraising communications
- Strengthen writing capacity across country offices
- Contribute to knowledge management hub
- Attend collaborative team meetings
Skills
- This role requires exceptional writing, editorial judgment, strategic thinking, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, emotionally compelling, and donor-ready content
- The ideal candidate has experience operating in a fast-paced environment, can balance multiple priorities, respond quickly during humanitarian emergencies, and consistently delivers work that reflects CARE's voice, values, and fundraising priorities
Benefits
- This role can be fully remote, based wherever CARE is registered in the US.
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