Principal, LatAm

ABOUT LUMINATE

Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that technology serves our needs and wellbeing. The foundation is focused on supporting a broad movement - advocates, creatives, innovators, survivors of digital harm and many others, with a deep focus on the global majority - to reimagine technology in service of social justice and human rights. 

Visit out Careers page to know more about our process and Benefits at Luminate. 

ROLE PURPOSE

The Funding Lead is a senior, region-specific role responsible for shaping and delivering Luminate’s funding strategy in practice and articulating the region’s ecosystem value proposition in ways that are credible to partners and funders.

The role exists to direct significant resources towards the highest-impact opportunities, steward critical relationships, exercise power-aware stewardship of money and influence, and ensure that learning from the field informs organisational strategy and partnership development.

Over time, the role is expected to shift effort away from operational workflow administration and towards strategy, discernment, ecosystem stewardship and senior relationships, enabled by strong coordination and automation.

HOW TO APPLY 

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Our screening process requires candidates to respond to a few questions that provide perspective on how your skills would relate to the day-to-day job. Submissions will be anonymised, randomised and reviewed by a panel of reviewers from the hiring team. If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to the next steps, which includes formal interviews and meeting select members of the team.    

Applications are due by 19 July 2026  at 11:59pm (BRT).

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

(Percentages indicate approximate allocation of effort)

Strategic portfolio design and prioritisation (30%):

• Shapes regional funding strategy, sets priorities, and ensures coherence between individual grants and broader strategic objectives.

Complex proposal leadership and decision-making (25%):

• Leads the development and assessment of high-value, high-risk, or strategically significant proposals, exercising senior judgement.

Senior relationship and ecosystem stewardship (20%):

• Manages senior-level grantee and funder relationships, represents Luminate externally, and explores opportunities for collaboration and co-funding.
• Acts as an ecosystem steward: convenes or match-makes where useful; builds shared learning; and supports coordinated responses to external events/opportunities in the region.

Organisational learning and strategy input (15%):

• Synthesises insights from the regional portfolio to inform global strategy, learning agendas, and organisational decision-making.
• Ensures field insights are fed back to inform strategy development and continuous improvement.

Process oversight and quality assurance (10%):

• Provides oversight of grant-making quality, consistency, and integrity across the region.
• Sets and enforces minimum regional standards for due diligence, documentation and decision logs; role-models disciplined adherence to governance while proposing process improvements through the correct channels.
• Champions automation and clear hand-offs (e.g. grant-management system workflows) so that strategic staff time is protected for discernment and relationships.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION YOU SHOULD KNOW    

Luminate believes that diversity and inclusion make us more successful in our work, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, age, sex, religion, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, gender identity or expression.