Development Director - New Orleans

The Development Director is an essential part of the Posse New Orleans development effort. The Development Director is responsible for working with the site director along with Posse’s national development team to meet annual revenue goals. The Development Director, in coordination with the site director and national development team will plan, manage, and coordinate the site’s development efforts including building new strategies for expanded funding, identifying, cultivating and soliciting donors, writing proposals and reports with accompanying budgets, thank you letters and other correspondence, planning events, soliciting corporate donations for events, and ensuring all necessary documents for grants management and audit purposes are properly filed.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

• Work with Associate Vice President of Development to create and implement annual development plan and strategy to raise an annual budget of approximately $3 million.
• Develop a pipeline of prospects for cultivation and solicitation and arrange meetings for site director and self with prospects.
• Cultivate and steward relationships with select corporate & foundation staff, and individual donors.
• Maintain portfolios of fundraising prospects and donors.
• Assist site director with advisory board meetings and other related activities.

Other responsibilities include :

We are looking for someone who is collaborative, innovative, hard working and thrives in a fast paced environment. The successful candidate will have these qualities / qualifications :

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Open until filled

No phone calls please.