Head of Philanthropy | PATH
Remote work model - flexible to any location in the U.S.

Organization Overview
PATH is a global nonprofit working to advance health equity so that people, communities, and health systems can thrive. As PATH approaches its 50th anniversary, its PATH 2030 strategy is helping build on decades of trusted partnerships, scientific and technical expertise, and country-level experience to focus work where the organization can make the greatest difference. Across vaccines, diagnostics, devices, medicines, digital and data tools, and health system innovation, PATH helps move promising ideas into practical solutions that reach people and communities wherever they live.

Every day, millions of people go without the care they need – because lifesaving solutions never reach them, or because the right solutions don’t yet exist.

Scientific innovation continues, but breakthroughs too often fail to reach the people who need them most because they are not adapted to real-world contexts, sustainably financed, or integrated into health systems.

At the same time, countries face rising burdens of infectious and chronic disease, climate-related threats, and growing pressure on health systems – and communities continue to suffer illnesses that could be prevented or treated.

Closing this gap is not just a technical challenge. It is a human one.

Progress depends on innovation becoming care that people can access and trust. PATH helps make that possible.

Context for Recruitment & Role Summary
PATH is entering an important new chapter. As the organization approaches its 50th anniversary, the PATH 2030 strategy is sharpening a focus on the places where PATH's partnerships, technical expertise, and country platforms can make the greatest difference. Philanthropy will be central to that next chapter – helping PATH mobilize more catalytic and flexible resources for practical, high-impact solutions to urgent global health challenges.

The Head of Philanthropy will lead this next phase of individual and family giving. This role is about more than closing gifts. It is about building trusted relationships with donors who share PATH's commitment to health equity, while helping shape a philanthropy function that is relationship-centered, strategic, and closely connected to PATH's priorities.

Reporting to the Chief Global Health Programs Officer, this leader will work closely with executive leadership, program and regional teams, marketing and communications, and the Board to align philanthropic investment with PATH's evolving strategic priorities and the organization's most important impactful opportunities. The Head of Philanthropy leads a team of approximately six and shapes the team's structure, priorities, and ways of working to deliver the philanthropy strategy, with a dedicated program budget.

Candidate Profile

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive experience in major gifts, principal gifts, or high-net-worth fundraising, with a record of leading transformational asks and closing multiple seven-figure gifts
• A strong record of building or significantly strengthening a development function, including team leadership, systems improvement, and culture-setting.
• Fluency in the individual and family philanthropy landscape, including family offices, donor-advised funds, legacy giving structures, and impact-oriented giving.
• Command of the data side of modern fundraising: prospect research and wealth screening, moves management, CRM discipline, and the analytics needed to build and defend a pipeline forecast.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with technical and scientific colleagues and to translate complex R&D, product development, and health systems work into rigorous investment cases; scientific or technical literacy – the judgment to know which expertise to bring into a donor conversation and when – is essential.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the presence to represent PATH credibly with sophisticated donors.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed organizations and the judgment to navigate relationships, priorities, and institutional dynamics with diplomacy.
• A genuine commitment to global health equity and the ability to represent PATH’s mission and strategy with authenticity.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in global health, international development, science, public health, or another field where donor trust depends on evidence, transparency, and strong technical credibility.
• Experience with anniversary campaigns, special initiatives, pooled funds, flexible funding vehicles, or other campaign-like fundraising efforts.
• Existing relationships in Seattle, New York, the Bay Area, or other philanthropic networks relevant to PATH’s current and future donor base.

Equal Opportunity Employer
PATH is dedicated to building an inclusive workforce where diversity is valued. PATH is an equal opportunity employer. Every qualified applicant will be considered for employment. PATH does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, caste, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, age, national origin, marital status, disability status, political ideology, military or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Compensation
PATH offers its employees a competitive salary and generous benefits. For candidates based in the U.S., the annual salary range for this position is $230,000-$260,000. The final salary is based on a variety of objective factors.

PATH provides a comprehensive benefit package that includes 15 vacation, 11 holiday, 2 personal, and 12 sick days per year; medical and dental plans; life insurance; and disability and retirement benefits. For more details click here.

Download the full position description via the following link:
https://www.dsgco.com/search/23495-path

PATH has retained the DSG Fundraising & Advancement Practice of DSG | Global to assist in this confidential search process. Inquiries, nominations, and applications (current resumes and cover letters) may be submitted via either of the following links or directed to the leader of the search team:

DSG Global Talent Profile

PATH Careers (Workday)

Gerard F. Cattie, Jr.
Global Managing Partner and Practice Founder, DSG Fundraising & Advancement
[email protected] | 212.542.2587