About the Climate Justice Resilience Fund
The Climate Justice Resilience Fund (CJRF) is a participatory climate justice fund that channels resources from larger climate funders to community-led climate justice initiatives that address the impacts and root causes of the climate crisis and sustain life, and inform and inspire funders to reshape the climate funding ecosystem.
CJRF supports women, youth, and Indigenous peoples to build and share their own solutions to climate change, and we make grants in three regions: the Bay of Bengal, East Africa, and the Arctic. We also have a modest global portfolio that supports scaling through cross-regional learning, replication, and global advocacy.
The CJRF governing board members are activists, practitioners, and leaders from across regions and movements who share a commitment to climate justice, participatory governance, and equitable philanthropy.
Grant Database Consultancy
In preparation for making grants under a new strategy, CJRF is looking for a temporary, time-bound consultant to support the identification, setting up, and training of a grant database. This process will entail:
• Understanding staff needs and priorities for a grant database
• Identifying database options, and detailing and communicating pros / cons of each option to staff
• Supporting staff to identify an appropriate database and testing the database to ensure it is fit for purpose
• Set up the database, including uploading some historical grant data to the database
• Training staff to use the database
CJRF currently has approximately 100 grants that are either complete or currently active that would need to be accommodated in the grant database, and CJRF has specific elements we’re looking for the database to include for future grantmaking.
This is a fully remote assignment that could be performed by an individual or team working from anywhere in the world. CJRF welcomes a diversity of applicants.
The selected consultant will be expected to have approximately weekly voice contact with CJRF staff. The staff most closely associated with this project are located in the GMT and GMT -4 time zones. Applicants should have access to adequate internet bandwidth to facilitate communication and should be comfortable working with these time zones.
Priority Areas of Experience
We are looking for a consultant with the following areas of expertise and experience:
• Strong knowledge of databases to make and manage grants
• Experience identifying database needs and matching these with recommendations
• Experience working with mid-sized intermediaries (annual budget in the USD 10-15 million range)
• Knowledge of Salesforce, as it’s a system CJRF has access to and used in the past
We are looking for someone who also:
• Is able to schedule calls at times that cross time zones (mostly EST and GMT, but possibly others)
• Can comfortably engage with multiple staff members
• Is available for this project between August and November 2026
• Comfortable working in English
CJRF and the selected consultant will agree on deliverables and a detailed scope of work during the inception phase of the consultancy.
Timeline & Compensation
We are looking to initiate the contract by August 1, 2026 and conclude this project by November 30, 2026.
The contract will be held by CJRF’s fiscal sponsor, the New Venture Fund. The contract will be for up to USD 35,000.
Application Process
By 5 pm GMT on Friday, July 10, 2026 please submit the following to kanchen.shakya@cjrfund.org with the subject line “Grant database consultancy”:
• A short proposal (2 pages max) explaining your qualifications and how you would approach this consultancy
• A proposed budget and short articulation of how you would spend it, including approximate time on tasks (2 pages max)
• A brief CV or resumé (2 pages max)
• List of past/present clients (1 page max)
CJRF will notify candidates of next steps by July 20, 2026.
