Director of Development

St. Anne Catholic Church and School, in Bristol VA, is seeking a Director of Development.

Summary/Purpose

The Director of Development will oversee all fundraising and development efforts at St. Anne Catholic Church and School. This position will have a major impact on the short-term and long-term growth of the parish and school by successfully executing efforts related to annual giving, planned giving, major giving, endowment building, and capital campaigns. Finally, this position will have a key responsibility of cultivating relationships with constituents of both the parish and school to build greater engagement and generosity in our shared contributor environment.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with church parishioners, existing school families, past school families (whose children no longer are of age), alumni, major donors, and community members
• Identifies and tracks major gift donors and other funding sources to support parish and school ministries.
• Builds, cultivates, and maintains qualified prospect lists of donors. Addresses all prospect/donor correspondence timely and appropriately.
• Plans, coordinates, and implements all aspects of a growth-oriented Annual Appeals (Annual Funds). Creates, writes, coordinates, and supervises the management of Appeal materials, mailings, website communications and miscellaneous literature distributions related to fundraising efforts in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Promotes planned giving, especially bequests with the aim of growing endowment assets for the parish and school.
• Collaborates with appropriate parish and school staff members to properly manage the administration of gifts of income and other assets.
• Organizes fundraising events for parish and school
• Plans and strategizes all parish and school capital campaigns. Serves as the main point of contact with outside fundraising consultants on capital campaigns in the case an outside consultant is hired.
• Researches and applies for grants for parish and school programs.
• Works and collaborates with parish and school staff members as well as Catholic Diocese of Richmond development staff members on fundraising initiatives as necessary.
• Develops and implements a parish year-round stewardship plan with the primary goals of building greater engagement and generosity to the parish.
• Manages the administration functions of the development office.
• Assess the experience, skills, and abilities of full community members for building up the Body of Christ in the church and school, and help them be good stewards of their own contributable resources.
• Works with existing giving societies and adds new ones, as appropriate.
• Performs other related development work as assigned.