Philanthropy Manager, Prospect Research and Relationship

Job Title: Prospect Research and Relationship Manager

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Remote Terms: Full Time Reports to: Director of Philanthropy, Corporate Giving and Impact Partnerships Posting End Date: Monday, July 6, 2026

About Us:

The American Forest Foundation (AFF) unlocks the power of family forests as a climate solution while helping thousands of landowners care for their land and improve forest health. Through its Family Forest Carbon Program, AFF expands access to the voluntary carbon market for family forest owners from all walks of life while producing high quality forest carbon credits to help companies reach their net zero goals. The organization’s strategic direction seeks to enable family forests to capture and store one billion tonnes of carbon by 2050.

We do not do this alone. AFF works across a broad coalition of conservation partners, corporations, and policymakers to equip family forest owners with financial and technical support to implement sustainable forest management practices on their lands and activate their forests as a critical tool in the fight against climate change. AFF is in a mode of complex problem solving and rapid iteration. All teams at AFF are working to discover solutions to the planet’s most pressing climate issues through developing and iterating viable and scalable models for impact.

AFF is driven by values of our shared purpose, measurable and verifiable results, and learning for continuous improvement to tackle big conservation challenges.

About the Role:

The Prospect Research and Relationships Manager plays a key role in supporting the American Forest Foundation’s fundraising efforts by helping to identify and assess new and existing prospects, including collecting and verifying biographical, professional, financial and philanthropic information, as well as relationship mapping. This key role then ensures the department can utilize the research to provide insights and recommendations which will guide how prospects are approached and engaged, strengthening overall fundraising efforts.

The Prospect Research and Relationships Manager will be responsible for helping to execute an events strategy related to managing corporate, foundation and government funders and provide recommendations for moves management and engaging with those audiences at key events. This is a remote position that reports to the Director of Corporate Giving and Impact Philanthropy. The manager works closely with all members of the philanthropy team and climate funding team and coordinates closely with the marketing and communications team to maintain and advance high-quality funder relationships.