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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 and event planning.
Responsibilities
- Work with site director and development officer/associate to create and implement annual development plan and strategy to raise an annual budget of approximately $2 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.
- Assist site director with advisory board meetings and other related activities.
- Write grant proposals, reports and budgets with development officer/associate or on own.
- Compose thank you letters and other correspondence of own and at times for site director.
- Working as a team with the site director, development officer/associate, and national development team to 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
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
- $80000.00 - $100000.00Salary/year
About the Company
- Posse Bay Area development effort
- Posse’s national development team