Climate Bonds Initiative
Director of Fundraising
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Director of Fundraising
Application Deadline: 1 August 2026
Department: Fundraising
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Remote
Reporting To: Chief Operating Officer
Compensation: £100,000 / year
Description
Climate Bonds is an international, investor-focused not-for-profit whose mission is to mobilise capital for climate action. It works at the nexus of science, finance and policy, and has brought science-based rigour to thematic bond markets that now exceed USD 6.5 trillion outstanding.
The organisation delivers through an integrated strategy:
- Pillar 1 – Criteria (the science-based Climate Bonds Taxonomy)
- Pillar 2 – Investors (activating financial markets)
- Pillar 3 – Policy (tilting the playing field towards climate-aligned capital)
Its strategic ambition is to mobilise USD 30 trillion in climate-aligned capital by 2030.
Climate Bonds convenes an extraordinary community of market actors. As of March 2026 the Climate Bonds Network represented more than USD 30.7 trillion committed to climate action, and the organisation engages over 3,000 stakeholders across the financial ecosystem. It has advised regulators on a large share of the sustainable-finance taxonomies now published or in development worldwide, establishing it as a trusted, independent standard-setter.
Purpose of the role — and why now
Climate Bonds is scaling its impact through a diversified funding model in which philanthropic capital anchors the mission-critical work that markets will not yet pay for — criteria and taxonomy development, policy engagement, and market-building in priority economies — while commercial revenue grows alongside it.
The Director of Fundraising provides enterprise-level leadership to secure and diversify the organisation’s income, shaping a long-term funding strategy that underpins institutional sustainability and global impact. As a key member of the senior leadership team, the Director sets the strategic direction for donor engagement, oversees the development of evidence-driven proposals, and positions the organisation as a partner of choice for major philanthropic, governmental, and institutional funders.
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How you'll contribute
- Develop and maintain a strong network of funders, acting as the primary external representative to cultivate strategic, long-term partnerships.
- Align and prioritise funding opportunities with organisational strategy, ensuring effective implementation and resource allocation.
- Accountable for meeting Fundraising targets
- Lead and manage the Fundraising Operations Team, overseeing workflows, performance, and delivery of high-quality outputs.
- Oversee programme design and development to ensure initiatives are impactful, scalable, and aligned with funder and organisational priorities.
- Produce timely, accurate reporting for internal stakeholders and external funders, ensuring transparency and compliance.
- Develop narrative and quantitative insights that demonstrate progress, learning, and value for money. Contribute to organisational impact publications, annual reports, and strategic updates.
- Oversee the refinement of internal systems and ways of working that support collaborative, efficient fundraising
- Drive organisational excellence by continuously monitoring emerging fundraising trends and championing innovative, data-driven approaches that elevate Climate Bonds’ fundraising strategy, diversify revenue streams, and strengthen long-term financial resilience.
- Displays leadership competencies in line with our Climate Bonds Career & Competency Framework at Director level.
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You should apply if you can demonstrate...
- Based in a UK/EU timezone
- Proven major-gift track record: has personally secured six- and seven-figure grants/gifts from US foundations and/or major individual donors.
- Live philanthropy network: existing warm relationships (ideally across US climate and sustainable-finance funders, program officers, family offices, DAFs and donor advisors) that can be activated quickly.
- Full-cycle major-gift craft: mastery of cultivation, solicitation, stewardship and moves management, including principal-gift asks.
- Storyteller: can translate technical climate-finance work into a compelling, credible case for support.
- Function-builder: comfortable standing up strategy, pipeline, CRM and forecasting from limited starting infrastructure.
- Desirable: climate / sustainable-finance / capital-markets fluency; experience in an international, matrixed NGO; relationships with pooled climate funds and re-granters.
- Fit: high integrity, entrepreneurial, collaborative and low-ego, able to mobilise the CEO and Board into the fundraising effort.
What's in it for you?
- 📍This role is fully remote
- 💵Salary in the region of £100,000 / year
- ⏰ We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, at times that suit you and your team.
- ✈️ Opportunities to work from another location
- ✅ Make a meaningful impact every day!
- 👨👩👧👦 Enhanced family leave policies
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