Development Manager

Job Function

The City Bar Justice Center seeks a mission-driven Development Manager to take a leading role driving the fundraising operations and data management that sustain the Justice Center’s work, including overseeing our donor database, leading fundraising campaigns and events, and supporting donor cultivation and communications.

Qualifications, Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
• A minimum of 4 years of nonprofit fundraising, events, communications, partnership management, or other directly relevant experience
• Strong organizational and project management skills, capacity to be self-directed, and exceptional attention to detail, including data entry, reporting, and data hygiene
• Proven ability to effectively manage multiple projects and time-sensitive deadlines simultaneously
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively with a diverse team of colleagues, board members, donors, and stakeholders
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 and experience with fundraising CRM platforms and other data and technology tools used in nonprofit development. Capacity to appropriately assess and leverage AI and other technologies to support this function’s efficiency and effectiveness
• Ability to work a hybrid schedule requiring regular in-person presence at the Justice Center’s midtown Manhattan offices, with occasional evening or weekend availability for events or other time sensitive tasks
• Demonstrated commitment to public interest work and equal access to justice

Qualifications

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. We are not able to sponsor visas for this position.
• This position will have a hybrid work schedule, requiring regular in-person office presence in midtown Manhattan, with occasional evening or weekend availability for events or other time sensitive tasks.
• The annualized salary for this role is $65,000–$85,000 depending on experience. We provide a competitive benefits package including generous paid time off (vacation, personal, sick time, holidays including office closure during the last week of the calendar year through New Year’s Day, day off for volunteer work, extra time off in summer), choice of medical plans, dental, vision, eligible for 401K when employment begins (with discretionary employer match up to 3% after 1 year), life insurance, commuter benefits program, Employee Assistance Program, short-term/long-term disability insurance, free New York City Bar Association membership and CLE programs, employee discounts, and more!