Title: Development Manager, US Climate Alliance Location: Washington, District of Columbia, 20006, United States Department: Career Opportunities Job Description: The salary range of this position is $90,000 to $100,000 ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW The U.S. Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of governors sustaining America&rsquo;s fight against climate change with bold, state-led climate action. The Alliance Secretariat helps its member states accelerate climate action by providing a broad range of technical, analytical, policy, and capacity assistance and resources. It also coordinates engagement with national and international partners to drive solutions across government in support of an ambitious, durable national climate framework. For more on the Alliance, visit www.usclimatealliance.org. JOB SUMMARY The U.S. Climate Alliance seeks a Development Manager ready to execute on the Secretariat&rsquo;s fundraising goals and activities to enable the delivery of critical capacity-building support to member states. The ideal Development Manager will be proactive, relationship-driven, and focused on implementing organization-wide goals for growing contributed revenue and strengthening philanthropic partnerships. Key responsibilities include managing day-to-day fundraising activities across a diverse portfolio of foundations and grants; writing and editing compelling grant proposals and progress reports; tracking and ensuring compliance with funder requirements, including deadlines, engagements, and submittals; prospecting new potential funders while maintaining relationships with existing funders; facilitating coordination and collaboration across Secretariat teams; and supporting leadership with the development and execution of annual fundraising plans. This role reports to the Deputy Director of Member Support and works as part of a broader team that includes Alliance states, consultants, and external partners. The position is based in Washington, DC (hybrid schedule) with consideration for remote work in the contiguous U.S. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Manage the development and submission of grant proposals - Coordinate the development of clear, concise, and impactful grant proposals that advance the Alliance&rsquo;s policy priorities and support the needs of member states, working closely with fellow Secretariat staff - Lead on writing and editing grant narratives - Support development of grant budgets and budget narratives, in coordination with the Secretariat&rsquo;s Operations team - Identify and gather all supporting materials required to be submitted alongside grant proposals (e.g., organizational materials, governance documents) - Submit grant proposals through the relevant donor portal and facilitate ongoing communication with the funder through approval and receipt of funds - Track and ensure compliance with funder requirements - Lead on tracking deadlines for grant submissions, narrative and financial reports, and relevant funder engagements - Write and edit compelling progress reports that demonstrate progress toward grant outcomes and Alliance goals, with support from fellow Secretariat staff - Ensure completion of financial reports in coordination with the Operations team - Facilitate review and approval of materials by Alliance leadership and the submission of materials to funders - Identify, research, and actively cultivate prospective funders - Conduct research and develop briefing memos on prospective funders whose strategies align with Alliance state needs - Identify near-term and long-term funding needs across Secretariat teams - Make recommendations for funder outreach and engagement - Support impactful engagements with current and prospective funders - Serve as the primary point of contact for coordinating funder meetings - Draft agendas for funder meetings to facilitate timely and productive dialogue on shared priorities and emerging topics - Develop briefing memos, slide decks, talking points, FAQ documents, and other written material as needed - Draft emails and coordinate timely outreach and follow-up - Manage day-to-date activities of the Secretariat&rsquo;s Development team - Develop agendas and manage biweekly Development team meetings, in close partnership with Alliance leadership - Regularly update the Alliance&rsquo;s CRM platform (Salesforce) with notes and action items from funder engagements - Maintain up-to-date contact lists for current and prospective funders - Develop file maintenance norms to ensure proposals, reports, budgets, and other documents are appropriately stored - Set and monitor progress toward annual fundraising plan - Work across Secretariat teams to execute on grant deliverables and priorities - Ensure that organization-wide priorities inform funder prospecting, communications with funders, and fundraising decisions - Conduct annual work-planning to identify and prioritize fundraising activities for the upcoming year, working across Secretariat teams to capture funding needs and priorities - Perform other duties as assigned SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES The Development Manager is not a supervisory role. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - Bachelor&rsquo;s degree in a relevant discipline, or commensurate professional experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to perform the essential functions of the role - 4-7 years of prior work experience in nonprofit fundraising - Demonstrated success securing major or mid-level grants from foundations strongly preferred - Familiarity with climate and clean energy issues and knowledge of key philanthropic organizations in the climate and clean energy space - Experience crafting persuasive and engaging content to clearly communicate technically complex information to diverse audiences - SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES - Exemplary written and verbal communication skills - Aptitude for independent research and analysis - Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills - Ability to write clearly, concisely, and persuasively with superior attention to detail - Ability to organize diverse workstreams to meet a variety of goals, often managing multiple projects simultaneously - Responsible, flexible, hard&acirc;€working, proactive, and committed to the Alliance&rsquo;s mission - Familiarity with donor databases (e.g. Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud) and proficiency with Microsoft Office and Airtable - Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment - WORK ENVIRONMENT The essential functions of this role will generally be performed in a typical professional office environment with routine use of standard office equipment. Employees are expected to either work on-site in accordance with the U.S. Climate Alliance&rsquo;s hybrid work policy, which currently requires regular in-office presence, or may be approved to work remotely elsewhere in the contiguous U.S., provided the employee maintains a dedicated workspace that supports confidentiality and productivity. Employees approved for remote work must ensure limited background noise and environmental distractions to effectively perform essential job functions. LOCATION While the U.S. Climate Alliance is headquartered in Washington, DC, we maintain a hybrid work schedule. Employees based in the DC area are expected to commute to the office at least two (2) days per week and may work from home three (3) days per week. We will also consider remote candidates based in the contiguous U.S. DISABILITY SPECIFICATIONS The United Nations Foundation/Better World Fund (UNF/BWF) will make reasonable accommodations in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. REQUIRED APPLICATION MATERIALS</strong> To be considered for this position, please upload both a resume and cover letter. Applications that do not include both documents will be considered incomplete and will not be reviewed. BENEFITS AND COMPENSATION For full-time, U.S. benefit eligible employees, UNF offers an excellent range of benefits, including: - a choice between two health plans through UnitedHealthcare (PPO or HDHP with HSA) - dental insurance - vision insurance - flexible spending accounts - 403b retirement savings plan with a generous matching contribution - group term and supplemental life insurance - short-term disability - long-term disability - back-up care - employee assistance program - Additionally, all benefit eligible employees have 12 paid holidays, 20 vacation days, 10 sick days, 3 personal days, and 8 weeks of family leave care. The United Nations Foundation is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

• Lead, coach, and grow a small (but growing) team of engineers delivering business-critical clinical, operational, and patient-facing systems • Establish clear goals and execution plans aligned with product and company priorities • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement • Provide direct feedback, mentorship, and career development for engineers at multiple levels • Level up the team: raise the technical and delivery bar through pairing, code review, and hands-on coaching, and grow engineers' fluency with modern, AI-native delivery practices • Hire thoughtfully to strengthen team capability and long-term scalability • Guide architectural decisions across backend services, workflows, integrations, internal tools, and patient-facing web and mobile experiences • Partner closely with senior engineers to ensure systems are reliable, scalable, secure, and maintainable • Maintain strong technical fluency across systems built with technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Node.js, React / Next.js, React Native, TypeScript, and AWS-based infrastructure • Ensure healthy CI/CD pipelines and safe deployment practices that support incremental delivery in a regulated healthcare environment • Champion small-batch, continuous delivery—small PRs, short-lived branches, feature flags, and tight feedback loops—so the team ships safely and frequently • Drive an agentic, AI-native approach to building software: lead as a manager of agents, and coach engineers to make AI developer tools (e.g., Claude Code) a core part of how they design, build, test, and review—without compromising engineering rigor • Use DORA metrics and other delivery signals to continuously raise the team's throughput and stability • Identify technical risks early and lead mitigation strategies before they impact care delivery • Oversee development of the experiences patients rely on daily (onboarding and activation, video visits, secure messaging, photo and data journaling, device and health-data integrations) and the systems that power the care team (clinical charting, scheduling, task management, care coordination, automation, and intelligent workflow enhancements) • Drive measurable improvements in the outcomes that matter for your team—engagement, activation, retention, reliability, efficiency, and clinician experience • Ensure experiences meet a high bar for accessibility (WCAG/ADA), performance, and reliability • Ensure systems handle patient data safely and operate within HIPAA and broader healthcare regulatory requirements • Support thoughtful integration of automation and AI capabilities where appropriate, always prioritizing human oversight and patient safety • Partner closely with product, design, clinical, and operations leaders to define roadmaps and deliver measurable impact • Translate complex, evolving business and clinical requirements into clear engineering plans • Provide structure and clarity in ambiguous problem spaces • Balance speed of delivery with operational reliability and long-term platform health

• Set a high bar for technical talent, customer instincts, and AI-first engineering judgment • Conduct regular 1:1s, provide technical mentorship, and invest in the career growth of each team member • Staff and oversee engagements with lines of business across your team's portfolio • Own delivery across the Prizm, Semantics, Transformation, and Delivery Services roadmaps • Work with line-of-business leaders to qualify engagements, scope work, and set expectations • Review technical architectures and code produced by your teams • Stay hands-on enough to lead technical discovery sessions, prototype solutions, and debug complex production issues • Build repeatable playbooks, starter repositories, integration templates, and an internal knowledge base • Set and uphold a high standard for AI-augmented engineering practice • Define team OKRs that tie to line-of-business outcomes and platform adoption goals • Partner with Product and Architecture to translate field insights into platform improvements • Represent the platform with senior stakeholders across lines of business

Role Description Topstep is looking for an Engineering Manager to lead a team within Trading Platform, the organization that builds and runs TopstepX. The platform spans order flow and execution, market data, and the services and integrations behind them — real-time systems thousands of funded traders rely on every day, where availability, performance, and correctness matter. This is a people-leadership role: you'll be accountable for your team's reliability, quality, and delivery, and for the health and day-to-day running of the team itself — partnering with senior engineers, other engineering leads, Product, and operations. Occasional hands-on work is welcome but isn't expected. Key Responsibilities - Run the Team: - Set direction and standards. - Set the hiring bar and run the interview process to keep the team well-staffed. - Plan capacity and shape how it operates day to day. - Lead and Develop the Team: - Run 1:1s, real-time feedback, and performance reviews. - Coach engineers toward individualized growth and address performance issues early. - Build a culture of psychological safety, transparency, agency, and high standards. - Drive Reliability and Operational Excellence: - Be accountable for the availability, performance, and resilience of the team's systems. - Ensure engineering process, on-call health, incident follow-through, and observability and tooling (APM, tracing, synthetic/health checks). - Drive Delivery: - Be accountable for the team's delivery cadence and outcomes. - Influence the roadmap to include the technical-investment and reliability work the systems need. - Partner across the Org: - Collaborate as a peer with the team's senior engineers and other engineering leads. - Work with Product, peer Engineering Managers, and operations and infrastructure partners. - Keep leadership informed on progress, risks, and trade-offs. Qualifications - 7+ years of software engineering experience, including production systems, integrations, and operations. - 2+ years of engineering management experience — hiring, setting direction, coaching, and developing engineers across levels. - A track record of delivering complex technical work at quality, balancing feature delivery against reliability and technical investment. - Experience leading teams that own production systems — on-call, incident response, and reliability. - A track record of building inclusive, collaborative cultures grounded in psychological safety, agency, and continuous learning. - Technical credibility to guide architecture and trade-off decisions for backend and distributed systems. - Hands-on background with .NET/C# and distributed systems, plus AWS and containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). - Excellent communication across technical and non-technical audiences. - A data-informed approach to team health, delivery, and reliability. - Comfortable leading through shifting priorities and balancing the team's capacity against what the business needs. Preferred - Trading, fintech, or other regulated financial environments — futures or trading-platform experience is a plus. - High-availability, low-latency, or real-time systems. - Microservices and real-time messaging (e.g., WebSocket/SignalR). - Cloud operations / infrastructure and on-call. - CI/CD tooling (e.g., Argo CD, GitHub Actions). Benefits - Seven Company-paid Holidays and generous Family Leave. Paid time off is front-loaded. - Competitive 401(k) matching, health, dental, and vision insurance is offered for full-time employees. - Vacations are encouraged with a bonus for taking 5 consecutive days. - Employee referrals are bonused. - Topstep offers a food and groceries budget and contributes towards health and wellness. New Hire Base Salary Range $190,000 - $230,000. This position is eligible for a performance-based bonus as provided by the plan terms and governing documents. The compensation offered will take into account internal compensation structure and may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. Equal Opportunity Employer Topstep is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees and applicants are valued. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Interested in the role? Apply today with your resume!