Director of Development

Job Title

Strengthen organizational capacity to achieve the Club's mission through the planning and execution of resource development strategies, maintaining and expanding relationships with individual donors and corporate partners, increasing awareness of the Club's mission and impact, and monitoring progress against goals. Working closely with the Assistant Executive Director, CEO and Board of Directors to cultivate and solicit contributions through individuals, corporations, foundations, and government agencies. Assists and supports Club public relations and marketing efforts.

Responsibilities

Key roles include:

• Developing and executing a comprehensive resource development plan to bring in revenue from individual donors, corporations, foundations, government, events, and planned gifts.
• Working with the Assistant Executive Director and CEO in the annual budget development and implementing strategies to meet and exceed budget goals, with an emphasis on individuals giving.
• Designing a program to identify, cultivate, and solicit major individual, corporate and foundation prospects.
• Developing and communicating a compelling Case for Support, Club Impact reports, and other donor engagement pieces to drive Club support.
• Coordinating appeal letters, thank you letters and Club information correspondence to donors and supporters.
• Coordinating and supervising Club fundraising events.
• Writing grant proposals for foundation and corporate support, and managing the grant portfolio to ensure timely submittal of grant applications, reports, and cultivation/engagement/recognition of corporate and foundation donors.
• Managing the donor database to track fundraising income, compile reports, and utilize for cultivation, solicitation, and recognition of donors.
• Managing the stewardship plan including donor recognition strategies and events.
• Ensuring consistent and meaningful RD Committee Meetings.

Qualifications

Skills and knowledge required include:

• Five plus years of resource and business development experience in areas of donor relations, major gift solicitations, grant writing, capital and major gift campaigns.
• Community engagement and marketing expertise.
• Proven ability to raise substantial sums of money and meeting agreed upon financial targets.
• Demonstrated ability to manage budgets and control fundraising expenses.
• Willingness to be part of a team, work well with others, and positively represent the Club in the community.
• Excellent written, verbal, and technological communication skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Budgeting and computer skills, including knowledge of database operations and spreadsheet software.

Physical requirements include:

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is frequently required to walk, sit and stand; talk or hear; use hands to finger; handle or feel objects, tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; and may be infrequently required to run. The employee must remain physically fit enough to keep children safe in an emergency.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Hand-eye coordination is necessary to perform certain duties. The noise level in the work environment can range from quiet to moderate in office settings to moderate and usually loud in recreation and play settings when children are present.