Manager, Government Partnerships

• Work with the government partnerships team on managing existing government partnerships and developing new ones, including supporting fundraising, proposal development, grant writing, contracting, reporting, relationship management, and event organization.
• Lead initiative-level partner engagement with 3-5 government partners, including relationship management, partner calls, and oversight of reporting.
• Manage the proposal development process from start to finish, including writing, work planning, budget development, responding to due diligence, and contract negotiations for new business development opportunities with government funders.
• Support tracking the effectiveness of key government partnerships across Acumen, ensuring consistent approaches and identifying areas for deeper strategic engagement.

This role supports Acumen's mission to solve problems of poverty and build a world based on dignity by engaging government partners to advance funding for social enterprises addressing global challenges of climate and poverty, positively impacting vulnerable and low-income people.

• Minimum of 8-10 years of relevant experience in fundraising, account, or project management, ideally working with bilateral or multilateral donors, with grant writing and budgeting experience essential.
• Sector-level expertise in climate, private sector development, and entrepreneurship is desirable, including sectors like agriculture and energy access.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with operational skills such as problem-solving and project management, including the ability to work independently and deliver projects proactively within deadlines.
• Strong written and oral communication skills, highly collaborative, motivated, self-starter, with exceptional relationship and interpersonal skills, and authorized to work in the US or UK.

The salary range for this role in New York is $86,400-$103,000 plus a performance-based bonus. Acumen has a hybrid work arrangement in New York or London, with equal pay determined through comparison to a cohort of employees in the market at the same level of accountability.

Acumen's mission is to solve problems of poverty and build a world based on dignity by investing patient capital in businesses whose products and services help vulnerable and low-income people transform their own lives, having positively impacted 585+ million lives through investments in innovative companies across Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States.