Development Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Position: Development Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

Through organizing, political education, leadership development and advocacy, the Ella Baker Center unlocks the power of low-income communities, people of color and their allies to transform California and inspire the world.

The position of Development Director is a senior-level management position, the primary duty of which is to lead the organization' s fundraising operations. Under the supervision of the Executive Director, the Development Director ensures that revenue meets and progressively exceeds annual and long-term budget goals.
Responsibilities:
Fundraising:

The Development Director is responsible for creating, maintaining and supervising all fundraising campaigns and sub-campaigns for the organization. This includes, but is not limited to:

. Foundation Relations: the revenue stream created by relationships with private foundations.

. Individual giving: the revenue stream generated by relationships with individual donors and family funds.

. Corporate giving: the revenue stream generated by relationships with for-profit entities.

Foundation Relations
1. Supervise all foundation relation activities
2. Project foundation-sourced revenue on monthly and annual bases; assess progress monthly; report on monthly, quarterly and annual bases.
3. Ensure maintenance of relationships through the timely meeting of request and reporting deadlines and requirements; acknowledgement and communication with foundation representatives.
4. Prospect and develop relationships with new foundations and foundation representatives.
5. Build and maintain strong relationships between Executive Director and foundation representatives.
6. Interface campaign and program staff and activities with foundation relations to ensure program awareness of funding relationships and involvement in funding process.
7. Manage all grant agreements and monitor compliance.
8. Manage all data related to foundation relations.

Individual Giving
1. Supervise all individual giving activities.
2. Project individual-sourced revenue on monthly and annual bases; assess progress monthly; report on monthly, quarterly and annual bases.
3. Ensure maintenance of relationships with individual donors through appropriate systems for cultivation, involvement, acknowledgement and fulfillment.
4.. Prospect and develop relationships with new donors and donor networks.
5. Build and maintain strong relationships between Executive Director and major donors.
6. Create and manage individual giving sub-campaigns including: year-end event, one-on-one asks, quarterly appeals, ad hoc solicitations, email solicitations, membership base development, new member acquisitions, membership renewal cycles, website-sourced giving, Internet-based organization promotion, house parties, donor cultivation events, general fundraising events.
7. Manage all data related to individual giving.

Corporate giving
1. Supervise all corporate giving activities
2. Project corporate-sourced revenue on monthly and annual bases; assess progress monthly; report on monthly, quarterly and annual bases.
3. Ensure maintenance of relationships with corporate donors through appropriate systems for cultivation, involvement, acknowledgement and fulfillment.
4. Prospect and develop relationships with new corporate donors.
5. Maintain strong relationships between Executive Director and corporate donors.
6. Create and manage corporate giving sub-campaigns including: year-end event, simple asks, incentive-based asks (sponsorships, logo placement, etc), in-kind requests, employee match programs, project-contingent giving.
7. Interface campaign and program staff and activities with corporate donor cultivation to ensure program awareness of funding relationships and involvement in funding process.
8. Manage all data related to corporate giving.

General Fundraising:
To support the operations described above, the Development Director maintains a development calendar.

The Development Director works with the Director of Finance and Operations and Bookkeeper to ensure consistency between fundraising data and accounting systems.

The Development Director collaborates with the Board of Directors to develop and ensure Board involvement in organization fundraising.

Supervision:
The Development Director directly supervises all development team staff (currently one full-time and one part-time staff). Responsibilities include:

1. Supervise development staff roles in foundation relations, individual giving and corporate giving to fulfill all activities and functions described above.
2. Provide guidance and feedback to development team staff.
3. Identify and ensure the necessary training and professional growth of team staff.
4. Conduct staff evaluations.
5. Lead regular development team meetings.
6.. Work with Executive Director to conduct the recruitment, hiring and dismissal of team staff.
Desired skills:
. Proven track-record for securing large grants from major foundations
. Proven track-record for developing corporate support for nonprofit organizations
. Demonstrated understanding of individual fundraising techniques
. Efficient, results-oriented approach to fundraising
. Ability to be accountable for revenue goals while delegating responsibilities
. Exceptional writing ability
. Self-directed leader with passion for social justice
. Knowledge of advocacy campaigns a plus

This is a full time, fully benefited position including Medical, Dental, Accup.Chiro and Simple IRA.

* Compensation: 60-65K/ Year

Please send cover letters and resumes to:

Attn: Hiring Mananger
email: jobs@ellabakercente r.org
Fax: 510-428-3940

The Ella Baker Center is an equal opportunity employer; people of color and women are strongly encouraged to apply

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