What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Advancement Officer position at Immigrant Learning Center (The ILC)?
The Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) will lead and elevate The ILC's overall fundraising efforts, growing the program especially among individual, corporate, and foundation donors.
Description
Chief Advancement Officer | The Immigrant Learning Center | Malden, MA
About The Immigrant Learning Center
The Immigrant Learning Center (The ILC) was founded in 1992 by Diane Portnoy. Her vision to open a free school where adult immigrants can learn English stemmed from her own immigrant experience as the daughter of Polish Holocaust survivors, and later, her role as a public-school teacher, where she saw students struggle to learn the language. Under her leadership, The ILC grew from three classrooms serving 60 students a year to a nationally recognized education center that now serves hundreds of students at a time.
The Immigrant Learning Center is a not-for-profit organization that gives immigrant and refugee adults a voice. It offers programs designed to help immigrants and refugees become economically self-sufficient and socially and civically engaged. Classes are offered free of charge, year-round to students who range from those with little or no formal education to those with advanced degrees in their native languages. Today, The ILC has a waitlist of nearly 2,000 people hoping to enroll in classes and public education programming.
About the Position :
The Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) will lead and elevate The ILC's overall fundraising efforts, growing the program especially among individual, corporate, and foundation donors. This position is responsible for developing and implementing strategies to build a robust, diversified revenue stream. The CAO will personally build and manage a portfolio of individual Major Gift Donors ($10,000 ).
The CAO will also work closely with the Executive Director, senior leadership, and members of the Board to identify, cultivate, and solicit donors; introduce prospects to the organization; and build an organizational culture that recognizes the value of philanthropy. This position manages a two-person development team and serves as a supervisor and mentor for this staff.
The ideal candidate will bring an innovative, entrepreneurial approach to building the program, experience and best practices, and a genuine enthusiasm for outreach and engagement with donors and prospects.
Key Responsibilities :
- Fundraising and Portfolio Management :
- Build and manage the individual giving program, including a major gift portfolio focused on establishing a rigorous moves management system to advance results.
- Create strategies for all aspects of annual and major giving : identifying and qualifying prospects, cultivating and soliciting, and providing excellent stewardship to donors.
- Identify new potential in corporate giving, foundation giving, events, and other fundraising tools, and implement new strategies, evaluating results.
- Staff Management :
- Lead two-person development team, manage the team to successfully meet annual portfolio goals.
- Work closely with the Executive Director and Board to develop and implement donor relationship strategies and solicitation.
- Organizational Leadership :
- Attend events where The ILC's donor population is present.
- Work with the Director of Communications in enhancing donor recognition in all communication strategies.
- Help develop annual budgets, revenue goals, and donor engagement activities.
- Help develop new strategies and protocols for giving programs to re-engage current donors and attract new prospects.
- Ensure maintenance of accurate and complete donor and gift records; be able to share regular reports on all donor activities.
Key Qualifications :
Compensation :
The annual compensation range for this position begins at $150,000, commensurate with experience.
All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
To express interest, please submit your cover letter and resume in confidence here.
For more information, please visit www.developmentguild.com.
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Salary : $150,000