Strategic Foundation & Grant Advisor – Behavioral Health / Philanthropic Partnerships - Remote
Behavioral Health Innovations is a mission-driven organization focused on expanding access to evidence-based behavioral health assessment tools. We are looking for a part-time Strategic Foundation & Grant Advisor who has existing relationships with charitable foundations, philanthropic organizations, grant-making institutions, nonprofit funders, or public/private behavioral health funding networks.
This is not a full-time role. It is a flexible advisory and relationship-development opportunity for someone who is already connected in the foundation, philanthropy, nonprofit, behavioral health, trauma, child welfare, education, or public health funding space.
About the Opportunity
The advisor would help identify and open doors to foundations, grant programs, philanthropic funders, and nonprofit partners that may be interested in supporting broader access to behavioral health assessment tools, trauma screening, child and adolescent mental health programs, and related clinical resources.
The ideal candidate understands how nonprofit and philanthropic funding conversations happen, knows who the relevant decision-makers are, and can help us build credible relationships with funders, foundations, and partner organizations.
Key Responsibilities
• Introduce BHI leadership to charitable foundations, philanthropic organizations, grant-making bodies, and nonprofit funding partners.
• Help identify grant opportunities aligned with trauma assessment, youth mental health, child welfare, behavioral health, public health, and evidence-based clinical tools.
• Advise on how to position BHI’s mission, platform, and assessment access model for funders and nonprofit stakeholders.
• Support relationship-building with foundation officers, nonprofit executives, public health leaders, and behavioral health funding networks.
• Provide strategic guidance on partnership structures, grant readiness, and potential funding pathways.
• Help evaluate which opportunities are worth pursuing and which are unlikely to be a fit.
Ideal Background
We are especially interested in people who have one or more of the following:
• Existing relationships with charitable foundations, grant-making organizations, family foundations, community foundations, or philanthropic networks.
• Experience in nonprofit fundraising, grant strategy, foundation relations, behavioral health funding, public health funding, or social impact partnerships.
• A network in child welfare, youth trauma, behavioral health, mental health, education, juvenile justice, public health, or related fields.
• Prior experience helping organizations secure foundation support, grant funding, sponsorships, or strategic nonprofit partnerships.
• Ability to make warm introductions to relevant funders or decision-makers.
Compensation Structure
This is intended to be a flexible, performance-oriented advisory role rather than a salaried full-time position. Compensation may include referral fees, success-based advisory compensation, project-based payments, or other mutually agreed structures tied to qualified introductions, funded opportunities, or strategic partnerships.
The exact arrangement will depend on the advisor’s background, network, and level of involvement.
Who This Is a Good Fit For
This may be a strong fit for a former nonprofit executive, foundation relations professional, grant strategist, philanthropic advisor, behavioral health consultant, retired foundation officer, public health partnership advisor, or someone with a strong network in mission-driven funding.
We are not looking for someone to simply submit cold grant applications. We are looking for someone who can help us understand the funding landscape, build the right relationships, and connect with organizations that care about expanding access to high-quality behavioral health tools.
How to Apply
Please send a brief note outlining your relevant foundation, grant, nonprofit, philanthropic, or behavioral health funding relationships, along with any examples of organizations or funding areas where you believe you could help open conversations.
Application Question(s):
• Please share your personal email.
• What would make a commission-based referral opportunity worthwhile for you?
• Do you have relevant foundation, grant, nonprofit, philanthropic, or behavioral health funding relationships?
• Are you interested in a flexible commission structure?
• We are not looking for someone to simply submit cold grant applications. We are looking for someone who can help us understand the funding landscape, build the right relationships, and connect with organizations that care about expanding access to high-quality behavioral health tools. Are you ok with this?
Work Location: Remote