Description

Strategic Leadership:

• Collaborate with the CEO, Leadership Team, Board of Directors, and staff to define, plan, and implement the agency's vision, direction, and strategy.
• Lead the strategic management of all fundraising initiatives, with an emphasis on major, individual, and planned giving.
• Drive the recruitment of new corporate and workplace partnerships, leveraging the President/CEO as needed.
• Ensure the Engagement team effectively prospects new partners and stewards current partners and investors.
• Provide strategic input for short- and long-term organizational planning.
• Identify and address development and recruitment challenges.
• Develop and implement comprehensive development, marketing, and recruitment plan.
• Stay informed about developments in philanthropy, current trends, policies, and issues.
• Develop a balanced funding mix of donors and solicitation tactics.
• Regularly evaluate the effectiveness and performance of engagement initiatives.

Team Leadership:

• Oversee and manage all fundraising, recruitment, marketing, and communications activities.
• Lead fund development, recruitment, and communications planning, including strategies, tactics, goals, benchmarks, and evaluation.
• Ensure sound fiscal oversight and reporting of revenue and expenses.
• Foster a collaborative, energetic, and inspiring leadership style that creates a supportive and authentic work environment for staff and volunteers.
• Identify, recruit, oversee, coach, and mentor direct reports in fundraising, recruitment, administration, and marketing/communications.
• Invest in the success of the team through regular individual, team, and department meetings; professional development; and performance and accountability measurement.

Inspiring Partnership and Investment:

• Design and implement a relationship-based, volunteer and donor-centric fundraising and recruitment program to meet the growing needs of the organization.
• Maintain a personal portfolio of relationships, actively managing and soliciting donors through the fundraising cycle.
• Develop and implement planned giving strategies in partnership with the Mission Officer.
• Assist the CEO, Board of Directors, and other fundraising volunteers and staff in identifying, cultivating, and soliciting gifts.
• Ensure the design, active management, and success of special events, cultivation and recognition programs, data management, and donor research and reporting.

Requirements

Required Qualifications and Requirements:

• Must possess a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree, and five to ten years of successful fund development or sales experience Development or sales management experience preferred
• Superior verbal and written communication skills; an effective listener and presenter
• High energy, results oriented
• Must have viable transportation, valid drivers’ license 

Skills and Experience:

• Demonstrates honesty and transparency, is not afraid to admit mistakes
• Demonstrates a “Can Do” attitude and views setbacks as opportunities to grow
• Must be willing to work 40 hours each workweek and be available at peak work periods for additional work hours
• Strategic, creative, progressive thinker
• Foster continuous communication
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to influence and persuade key stakeholders
• Strong degree of integrity. Highly ethical approach to all aspects of assigned responsibilities.
• Strong executive presence; professional with personal confidence and maturity.
• Demonstrated ability to participate in and develop teams.
• Strategic, creative, progressive thinker
• Well organized, strong on the follow-through
• Innovative, creative and strong interest in executing new strategies to exceed revenue goals
• A supportive leader of organizational change
• Must be willing and able to work evenings and weekends
• Must be willing and able to travel when necessary