Global Water Center

Director of Advancement

Remote

The Director of Advancement will lead Global Water Center’s next phase of fundraising growth by expanding and diversifying a still-emerging donor base. Reporting to the CEO, this leader will personally cultivate major donor relationships while building the strategy, systems, and board engagement rhythms needed for long-term scale. This is a builder opportunity for a strategic fundraiser who can translate strong relational access and sector credibility into sustainable growth.

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Why We Love This Opportunity

I love the innately collaborative nature of the work of Global Water Center: to equip leaders to create sustainable solutions to impact the lives of 2.2 billion people living without access to safely managed water. You’ll be a part of a growing organization, partnering with a passionate and remarkably talented team of people. This is a special opportunity to help shape the organization’s core sustainability strategy to meaningfully impact the global water crisis.

A great match for this position would be:

Relational & Emotional Intelligence – Builds trust quickly and reads people and team dynamics with discernment. Deeply listens and navigates legacy relationships with wisdom and diplomacy. Moves fluidly across audiences with authenticity and integrity.
Agile Driver – Moves ideas, relationships, and opportunities forward with speed and discernment in a fast-evolving environment. Brings clarity, momentum, and follow-through amid ambiguity, shifting priorities, and cross-functional complexity.
Humble Confidence – Confidence without ego. Demonstrates the courage to make bold asks, hold independent perspective, and lead with conviction while remaining deeply collaborative and committed to shared outcomes.
Executive Communicator – Translates vision into compelling communication across every setting. Uses written, verbal, donor, board, and day-to-day communication to strengthen alignment and build trust.
Strategic Advancement Builder – Creates clarity from ambiguity, building focused strategy & structure that enable sustainable growth. Proven major donor success, including five, six, seven-figure asks, and translates donor opportunity into disciplined pipeline momentum, scalable systems, and enduring partnerships.

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About This Organization

Global Water Center (GWC) was founded in 2020 by Molly and George Greene III, in partnership with Water Mission. Molly and George are also the founders of Water Mission, a Christian engineering nonprofit focused on designing and implementing safe water systems. Through his work with Water Mission, George recognized that ending the global water crisis would require more than direct project implementation.

GWC was established to address this gap, with a distinct mission and organizational focus centered on supporting the broader water sector rather than implementing projects directly. GWC has since grown into an independent organization dedicated to strengthening the capacity of organizations and governments working on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH).

Over the past three years, GWC has experienced significant growth in both programs and recognition within the sector. Its work focuses on three core areas:

Online and in‑person courses that provide practical, applied resources for water sector professionals
Technical assistance to nonprofits and governments
Integrated capacity development programs that combine training and technical support at the systems level, particularly in partnership with governments

Through this work, GWC has become increasingly recognized for both technical excellence and its role as a collaborative, sector‑wide support organization.

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Remote Position – US Based

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