Development Director

Application Deadline 

Review of applications will begin Monday, February 10, 2025. Applications will be accepted until 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, February 9, 2025. Anticipated start date will be February or March 2025. 

Position Description

Breach Collective (“Breach”) is seeking a development and fundraising professional who is available to start in early Spring 2025. The Development Director is a part-time, salaried, exempt position, with the possibility of going full time in the future. This position is hybrid/remote optional, with offices located in Eugene and Portland. Candidates based in Oregon or with a strong understanding of the funding landscape in Oregon are preferred. 

The Development Director will develop and lead all fundraising initiatives, programs, and events. The Development Director will maintain relationships with existing donors, develop relationships with donor prospects, and solicit gifts at all levels. The Development Director will also lead and execute the identification, cultivation, solicitation, acknowledgement, and stewardship of all levels of institutional and individual donors, including proposal and report writing (in collaboration with staff), as well as planned giving and social media fundraising strategies. The successful candidate will also be responsible for tracking grants and collaborating with staff to set fundraising budgets.  Since Breach is a growing organization, the Development Director will be able shape fundraising programs and is encouraged to propose programs and strategies not highlighted in this job description.     

The Development Director will be a member of the bargaining unit represented by Communications Workers of America Local 7901.

Organization Description

Breach is a unionized (with Communications Workers of American Local 7901), worker self-directed non-profit organization. The Breach team is nimble, with the capacity and expertise to support movements at varying stages of development with divergent approaches to making an impact. Our mission is to build power within the climate and labor movements through organizing, legal advocacy, education, and storytelling.

Breach applies a mix of grassroots organizing, targeted legal advocacy, and strategic communications in order to maximize the success of local campaigns and build movement power. We strive to center frontline voices and impacted communities, and to embody internally the values we advocate for in movement spaces.

Breach’s programs are primarily focused on Oregon and the broader Pacific Northwest. We also have strong relationships with several national and international partners. 

Currently, our work is centered around: 

• Fossil fuel resistance, including natural gas
• A just energy transition, including building electrification
• Labor movement building
• Movement education
• Internal anti-oppression work

The Development Director's work will include

Fundraising and donor retention (45%)

• Develop and implement an individual and large donor strategy
• Lead the execution of donor engagement 
• Lead and oversee fundraisers and events
• Collaborate with communications staff on fundraising campaigns
• Identify and foster key relationships with individuals, organizations, and businesses 

Grants (40%)

• Maintain grant calendar
• Prospect new grantmaking foundations
• Oversee grant applications, in collaboration with project leads and other staff members 
• Develop and nurture relationships with program officers

Internal organizational duties   (15%)

• Collaborate with Director of Operations on budget for fundraising
• Engage board members in fundraising
• Attending regular staff meetings 
• Maintain and expand organizational profiles

Desired Qualifications and Experience

• Investment in the climate and labor movements 
• Experience planning fundraising events
• Experience writing letters of inquiry, grants, and grant reports
• Familiarity with Oregon’s foundation landscape
• A knack for building partnerships and relationships with supporters and businesses
• Strong writing and editing skills and an ability to convey complex topics with clarity and brevity
• Experience with decentralized decision-making and conflict resolution
• Ability to work independently and be a team player within a nonhierarchical staff, including direct communication skills and ability to take accountability 

Breach is committed to dismantling systems of oppression that exist across our society, including in nonprofit workplaces. Our organization is explicitly designed to be worker self-directed, and we acknowledge that it requires a consistent and intentional practice of de-programming and pushing back against traditional and informal power dynamics in order to uphold our values. Along with all other staff, the Development Director will participate in our ongoing and evolving internal anti-oppression work, as appropriate .

Breach Collective values lived experience, professional experience, and educational experience as equal. Applicants are encouraged to apply even if they do not meet all of the listed desired qualifications and experience. Black, Indigenous, people of color, women, queer, transgender, and two spirit people are encouraged to apply.

Salary Benefits

The intended starting salary range for this part-time (0.75 FTE, 24 hours per week) position is $54,120 - $60,885. There is a possibility for this to become a full time position in the future. This position will be a member of Breach’s bargaining unit. Benefits include the following:

• Excellent, fully covered healthcare insurance for you and dependents, including dental and vision, as well as life insurance and an FSA
• Up to 37.5 days of vacation each year 
• Unlimited sick pay
• 17 paid holidays
• Week-long paid winter office closure
• Generous family, restorative, and bereavement leave 
• Monthly stipends for home office ($100), internet and phone bills ($50 each), and wellness ($50)
• An annual education reimbursement ($1,000)
• One-off reimbursements for computer and office purchases (up to $1,250 and $1,500 respectively)
• 401k with employer contribution 

Application Materials

To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, writing sample, and contact information for three references as a single PDF to jobs@breachcollective.org by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, February 9, 2025.