Development Manager

Essential Job Functions

• Develop and implement internal giving campaigns, including employee giving campaigns and corporate donors.
• Manage a portfolio of Individual donors that targets the exponential growth of philanthropic funds.
• Build relationships based on credibility, trust, knowledge, and an understanding of the values and priorities of prospective and current supporters.
• Collaborate with the advancement team to develop an annual fund strategy and establish goals to achieve a substantial increase in philanthropic contributions from individual and corporate donors each year.
• Produce annual appeal letters and donor acknowledgement letters that target individual and corporate donors for direct mail campaign.
• Annually expand our base of donors, with strategies to continually grow the donor pipeline over multiple years.
• Aid in researching, cultivating, and expanding agency donor base, including corporate sponsors and individuals.
• Diversify annual fund campaign to include online solicitation and email strategies.
• Aid in the implementation of the Development Plan that incorporates a range of strategies including annual appeals, major donors, grants, corporate and individual appeals, social media, and special events.
• Execute event plans to meet revenue goals.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
• Advanced degree in field related to not-for-profit management, communications or fund development preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as leader and as team member.
• Strong partnership-building and event-planning skills.
• Thorough understanding of components of diversified funding base.
• Good computer skills and knowledge of database programs.
• Good organizational and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability through experience in issue management, public relations strategies and tactics, legislative strategies and tactics, and public marketing and promotion campaign development and execution.
• Prominent ability to handle multiple and varied functions with success.
• Prominent ability to manage corporate resources responsibly and effectively.
• Good supervisory and management skills.

Physical Demands

• Position has no unusual physical demands.
• May involve discomforts associated with continual use of video display terminal.