Textile Exchange

• In partnership with CIO, design and execute a comprehensive fundraising strategy for the Climate and Nature Impact work. • Primary fundraising mechanisms: Government and institutional grants • Philanthropic grants and gifts from foundations with endowments, or individuals • Corporate Sponsorships • Funding Mechanisms to Address Economic Barriers at Tier 4: In partnership with CIO, CEO, and Senior Leadership Team, explore and execute opportunities to partner with existing grant funding mechanisms to fill current gaps in funding opportunities for tier 4 production systems. • Manage external partners to inform fundraising strategy. • In partnership with CIO, CEO, and Senior Leadership Team, develop a longer-term strategy for investment mechanisms to support collective action and address barriers at tier 4, ensuring alignment with Textile Exchange’s 5-year strategy, engagement model, and theory of change. • This includes familiarity with blended finance, catalytic capital, and transition finance approaches. • Cultivate and steward relationships with a portfolio of mission-aligned donors, foundations, and corporate partners. • Partner with the CEO, Chief Impact Officer, and senior leaders internally and externally to grow and diversify the organization’s philanthropic funding base. • Track grant cycles, deadlines, and deliverables using CRM (Salesforce) and project management tools. • Manage stewardship activities, donor briefings, and engagement events. • Draft, edit, and submit letters of inquiry, grant applications, and donor reports - this is a hands-on role, not solely a management role. • Prepare compelling grant proposals, donor materials, and impact reports, tailored to diverse funder audiences. • Collaborate with program teams to gather relevant data, outcomes, and stories for fundraising materials. • Monitor and evaluate progress against grant deliverables and impact metrics, ensuring transparency and accountability to funders. • Manage grant compliance and budget reporting requirements for institutional funders, including financial reporting and narrative deliverables. • Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture that supports innovation, accountability, and professional growth. • Contribute to organizational vision and decision-making, providing fundraising perspectives to inform strategic planning. • Support the CIO in Board engagement and fundraising initiatives. • Promote alignment and integration with other departments.

• Provide essential support to Textile Exchange Legal Counsel • Legal compliance and tracking, managing state and charitable registrations, and helping identify compliance risks • Identify opportunities for improvement and greater efficiency • Ensure the Legal team leverages technology and innovation • Promote continuous improvement and training • Develop an effective know-how system to capture and propagate knowledge • Document preparation, review, tracking deadlines, and maintaining digital records • Support CLM data governance to ensure data consistency, compliance, and accuracy across systems • Monitor and maintain data integrity and resolve quality issues • Maintain contract and other legal templates • Track contracts through the contract lifecycle • Conduct legal research and assist with managing legal matters • Submit invoices and assist with tracking legal expenses

• Provide leadership and oversight to the Standards and Policies sub-team • Ensure decision making related to work of the Standards and Policies sub-team is informed and balanced • Lead the design, structure, and functionality of the Standard System document suite • Oversee the effective design, performance, and continuous improvement of internal quality management systems and external compliance systems • Identify opportunities to enhance system design, workflows, governance, and document quality

• Accountable for robust assurance and traceability as part of an integrated standards system that is credible, scalable, and future-ready. • Accountable for digital tools and systems that effectively advance the standards system by supporting transparency, regulatory alignment, market confidence, and measurable impact across complex global supply chains. • Own the ongoing evolution of assurance and traceability within the standards system, ensuring that policies, processes, data, and governance function together in an integrated way. • Oversee the Assurance team, responsible for certification body management, monitoring and assessment, and all other certification activities. • Oversee the Traceability and Supply Chain Data teams, responsible for development and management of digital tools supporting Textile Exchange standards. • Proactively evolve the relevant models and systems to strengthen the integrity of the standards system, balancing credibility, usability, cost, and innovation amid regulatory change, technological advancement, and shifting market expectations, ensuring long-term strategic success. • Develop strategies to strengthen proactive monitoring and response to complaints or inquiries related to certification body performance or user conformity across the system • In partnership with the standards leadership team, define and advance Textile Exchange’s strategic approach to traceability, including interoperability, scalability, and alignment with emerging regulatory and market expectations. • Ensure appropriate risk management within certification activities, including appropriate organizational transparency, responsiveness, and confidence. • Guide prioritization decisions where trade-offs exist between rigor, scalability, cost, and adoption. • Represent Textile Exchange externally as a thought leader on assurance and traceability, with certification bodies, the ISEAL community, peer standards bodies, users, and strategic partners.