World Learning seeks a Senior Associate, Private Grants, based in Washington, D.C., to contribute to identifying, cultivating, and closing grants with foundations and corporations that share World Learning’s mission to train and empower the world’s next generation of civil society leaders. The Senior Associate will be an excellent, efficient writer who will collect data on and write grant reports for existing grant-funded projects, conduct prospect research on and write grant applications to new funders, and help manage both internal and external relationships that advance World Learning’s private grant pipeline. The right candidate will be curious to learn about and help conceptualize international development and exchange programs, and will have a bias towards making ideas into concrete action plans, budgets, and proposals. This position offers an opportunity for the right candidate to advance towards maintaining a client portfolio independently.
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For more than 85 years, World Learning has worked to create a more peaceful, sustainable, and just world. Our education, development, and exchange programs help people find their voices, connect with their communities, and strengthen the institutions that form the backbone of a democratic society. With our support, these emerging leaders tackle critical global issues like poverty, conflict, and inequality.
As a thriving international nonprofit organization with impact in 150 countries, World Learning works across six major program areas. We’re hard at work improving global education to ensure schools and teachers have the tools they need to support students — including English language instruction through our TESOL teacher training. We encourage civic engagement in communities around the world, and we strengthen institutions so that they can best serve their constituencies. Our workforce development programs help people cultivate the hard and soft skills they need to succeed. And we offer people-to-people exchanges for people of all ages who seek professional and academic enrichment.
All World Learning programs are grounded in five key approaches: experiential learning, leadership development, inclusive practices, innovation, and grants management. We believe in partnering with local experts, organizations, and institutions to find solutions that will truly work for each community. Together, we create the foundations for a better tomorrow.
World Learning is a member of the World Learning Inc. family, which also includes The Experiment in International Living and School for International Training.