Vice President of Development & Communications

Job Description

Job Description

Vice President of Development & Communications

Alaska Community Foundation | Full-Time, Exempt | Leadership Team

Lead philanthropy. Strengthen relationships. Help shape Alaska’s future.

Alaska Community Foundation (ACF) is seeking an experienced, strategic, and relationship-driven Vice President of Development & Communications to lead the Foundation’s fundraising, donor engagement, and communications.

Reporting to the President & CEO and serving on the Leadership Team, this is a key executive role with the opportunity to expand charitable giving across Alaska, strengthen relationships with donors and professional advisors, and elevate ACF’s visibility and impact statewide.

What You’ll Do

• Lead ACF’s fundraising strategy, including major gifts, planned giving, donor-advised funds, endowments, donor stewardship, and asset growth.
• Build and manage relationships with high-capacity donors, families, businesses, foundations, and philanthropic partners.
• Develop partnerships with attorneys, CPAs, financial planners, and investment professionals to expand planned giving and donor referrals.
• Set the strategic direction for communications, brand positioning, media relations, storytelling, and donor communications.
• Partner with the President & CEO as a senior spokesperson and advisor on fundraising, community engagement, public positioning, and issues communications.
• Support ACF’s statewide Affiliates in strengthening local fundraising and growing community endowments.
• Lead and mentor the Director of Development and Director of Communications, holding both functions accountable for results and building a collaborative, high-performing team.
• Establish goals and measurable outcomes for fundraising, communications, new funds, gifts, and charitable asset growth, including the For Alaska. Forever. Fund.

What We’re Looking For

The successful candidate will be an accomplished development leader who can combine relationship building, fundraising strategy, executive leadership, and strong communications judgment.

Qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree required; CFRE or CAP® a plus.
• 10+ years of progressively responsible development experience, including major and planned gifts and direct work with high-capacity donors.
• 5+ years leading a development program or team.
• Demonstrated success cultivating and securing major and planned gifts and building long-term donor relationships.
• Experience with strategic communications, marketing, public relations, or senior oversight of these functions.
• Experience leading managers and cross-functional teams and managing budgets, goals, and organizational priorities.
• Knowledge of planned giving, nonprofit fundraising, and 501(c)(3) organizations.
• Strong interpersonal, networking, communication, and strategic leadership skills.
• A genuine knowledge of and commitment to Alaska, its communities and cultures, and ACF’s mission; established relationships across the state preferred.

Why This Role Matters

This is an opportunity to help shape the future of philanthropy in Alaska. The Vice President will connect donors with opportunities to make a lasting difference, grow charitable resources benefiting communities across the state, and help tell the story of ACF’s impact.

Interested in helping grow the power of philanthropy across Alaska? We’d love to hear from you!

Location: Anchorage, Alaska

Salary range: $165,000–$185,000, plus benefits