Senior Director of Development

Position Summary

The Senior Director of Development is a senior leader responsible for leading and executing Neighborhood’s fundraising strategy in close partnership with the CEO. This role focuses on building and scaling a major donor centered revenue engine while strengthening foundation and corporate philanthropic partnerships.

Core Responsibilities

• Capital Strategy and Revenue Leadership

• Lead execution of a multi-year fundraising strategy aligned with organizational expansion
• Build annual fundraising plans with clear growth targets
• Lead revenue forecasting and dashboard reporting
• Align fundraising pacing with organizational growth priorities
• Identify capital gaps and help develop strategies to address them

• Major Donor Strategy

• Design and lead a major donor program capable of supporting scale
• Manage a personal portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects
• Secure new major gifts and multi-year commitments
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of qualified major donor prospects
• Partner closely with the CEO on top-tier cultivation and solicitation

• Foundations and Corporate Philanthropy

• Lead foundation strategy and grants calendar
• Ensure competitive proposal development and reporting
• Cultivate long-term foundation partnerships
• Develop corporate philanthropic partnerships aligned with mission and systems change

• Fundraising Infrastructure and Optimization

• Oversee CRM integrity and moves management discipline
• Strengthen donor segmentation and stewardship systems
• Optimize fundraising systems already built
• Leverage automation and external consultants strategically
• Improve donor impact reporting and engagement cadence

• Executive and Board Partnership

• Partner directly with the CEO to prioritize fundraising focus
• Prepare the CEO for major donor meetings and solicitations
• Help develop a board fundraising engagement strategy
• Increase board participation and accountability in revenue growth efforts
• Help evolve the organization’s case for support as Neighborhood scales

Qualifications

• 7 or more years of senior-level fundraising leadership experience within nonprofit or mission-driven organizations
• Demonstrated success securing five and six figure gifts
• Experience managing a major donor portfolio
• Strong strategic planning and forecasting capability
• Comfort operating without a large internal development team
• Experience in growth-stage or entrepreneurial organizations preferred
• Alignment with dignity-centered, systems-aware approaches to economic mobility

Who You Are

• You think in scale, not survival
• You believe capital can accelerate systems change
• You are disciplined, metrics-driven, and relational
• You are comfortable building in motion
• You are energized by ambitious growth
• You are ready to help institutionalize what a founder has built

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary: $105,000

• Annual insurance stipend: $4,000

• Neighborhood provides structured annual compensation increases, including performance-based step increases and cost-of-living adjustments, creating clear opportunity for salary growth as the organization expands.

• PTO: 160 hours (20 days)

• The full week of Thanksgiving
• Two full weeks at Christmas