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About the Role

The Development Director is an essential part of the Posse Bay Area development effort, responsible for working with the site director and development officer/associate along with Posse’s national development team to meet annual revenue goals. This role involves planning, managing, and coordinating the site’s development efforts, including building new strategies for expanded funding, identifying, cultivating, and soliciting donors, and overseeing proposal writing, event planning, and corporate donation solicitation.

Responsibilities

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.
Act as a surrogate regarding fundraising matters at site director’s discretion.
Assist site director with advisory board meetings and other related activities.
Manage the development officer/associate.
Write grant proposals, reports and budgets.
Compose thank you letters and other correspondence.
Plan fundraising events and develop strategy for soliciting corporate donations for events.
Ensure site is properly filing all required documents for grants management and audit purposes.

Requirements

Collaborative, innovative, hard-working and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
Motivated and able to work independently as well as with a team.
Willingness to take initiative.
Ability to meet deadlines and multi-task, manage concurrent processes/projects, and focus on the small but important details in all projects while keeping the bigger picture in mind.
Able to establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships with colleagues, donors, volunteers and the public.
Demonstrated belief in Posse’s mission and values.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including grant writing.
Excellent office and computer skills.
Proficient in Word, Excel and experience working with a fundraising database.
Strong public speaking and presentation skills.

Location

Posse Bay Area - San Francisco, CA 94104

Work Type

Full Time

Experience Level

Seven years minimum of work experience as a development professional

Education Level

4 Year Degree
Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

$80,000.00 - $100,000.00 Salary/year