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About the Role
The Development Manager will provide substantive and administrative support to the development work of the National LGBTQ+ Bar Association and Foundation, including fundraising, stewardship, communications, event support, grant support, and database management. This is a frontline fundraising position requiring regular engagement with donors and prospects.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with the Chief Development Officer to execute strategies to qualify, cultivate, solicit and steward corporate and law firm entities.
- Build meaningful relationships with individual donors through personalized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
- Oversee the planning and implementation of outreach for the organization’s major giving circle.
- Create and coordinate fundraising and membership materials, including appeals, event signage, and digital invitations.
- Strategically lead communications, engagement, and convenings for the LGBTQ+ Bar’s Alumni Council.
- Assist in maintaining the membership and donor database, ensuring accurate and up-to-date records.
- Ensure timely acknowledgment letters, tax receipts, and thank you notes to donors and sponsors.
- Analyze fundraising and membership data and prepare reports.
- Provide support for the successful execution of various fundraising events, including components of the Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair.
- Conduct prospect research on potential foundation and corporate donors.
- Assist with writing and editing letters of inquiry, grant applications, and follow up reports.
- Track grant deadlines and requirements.
- Compile necessary documentation and attachments for grant proposals and reports.
- Process mail, deposit checks, and order office supplies as needed (if in the DC metro area).
Requirements
- At least 3 – 5 years of experience firsthand with prospecting and cultivating relationships that lead to increased nonprofit funding, preferably in the legal and/or LGBTQ+ space.
Skills
- Familiarity with Bloomerang CRM and Fundraising systems, or other donor database
- Experience with mail merge
- Experience with email marketing software (ex: Mailchimp)
- Experience with basic graphic design tools (ex: Canva)
Location
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- North Carolina
- Virginia
- Washington State
- Washington DC
Work Type
- Full-time
- Salary exempt
- Hybrid (potential for one day in-office per week if in DC metro area)
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Salary/Compensations
- $72,000 to $87,000 per year, DOE
About the Company
- The National LGBTQ+ Bar (“the Bar”) was founded almost forty years ago by a small group of family law practitioners at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
- In 1987, the idea of creating a gay and lesbian bar association was formally introduced at the Lesbian & Gay March on Washington and the first Lavender Law® Conference took place the following year at the Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
- In 1992, the Bar became an official affiliate of the American Bar Association.
- The LGBTQ+ Bar’s annual Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair now sees over 2500 registrants each summer, and the LGBTQ+ Bar supports thousands of LGBTQ+ and ally legal professionals through its law student programming, state and local bar affiliate program, and much more.