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About the Role
Director, Development is responsible for designing and executing the Development strategy that will allow City Year to leverage the resources, talents, and skills of the philanthropic sector to build the site and create change in communities across the city.
Responsibilities
- Plan the strategy of donor engagement across sectors: private, government, and education.
- Serve as a representative of City Year in the external community attending events on a frequent basis.
- Build meaningful relationships that result in securing both monetary and in-kind multi-year support.
- Develop, plan, and implement a campaign for City Year’s continued growth throughout Buffalo.
- Add development capacities to execute against City Year’s Long Term Impact goals.
- Develop innovative strategies to promote individual giving to City Year.
- Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of current and future major donors.
- Refine City Year Giving Circles initiatives and increase participation with individual donor gifts of $10,000+.
- Ensure annual Advisory Board giving is 100%.
- Manage the Board throughout the year and during quarterly Board meetings.
- Maintain Board engagement both financially and otherwise to ensure Board retention and satisfaction.
- Co-Chair the Advisory Board’s Development Committee ensuring board and staff alignment on all development related initiatives.
- Establish corporate and foundation strategy.
- Support the regional grant writer with the management of relationships and communication with City Year’s corporate foundation funders.
- Work to increase corporate and foundation multi-year gifts.
- Manage special events to raise the awareness of City Year; fundraise and engage individuals, foundations, and corporations as champions and donors.
- Represent, respect, and role model City Year organizational culture and values.
- Help share the mission of City Year locally to increase brand awareness in the community.
- Help shape organizational strategy and play a leadership role in implementing the site’s local operating and multi-year strategic plan.
- Work collaboratively with other site departments and with City Year’s national headquarters.
- Collaborate with local and national colleagues in ensuring accurate maintenance of records and donor information in the SalesForce database and in local network and paper files.
Requirements
- 5-8 years of progressive fundraising/development experience with proven fundraising track record that includes multi-year giving.
- Comparable experience will be considered.
- BA/BS required.
- Solid, persuasive writing skills required.
- Experience serving on diverse teams required.
- Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills required.
- Knowledge of the Buffalo donor community preferred.
- Strong and efficient use of Microsoft Office required.
- Ability to work with diverse groups of young adults in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team environment.
Skills
- Fundraising
- Development strategy
- Donor engagement
- Relationship building
- Campaign implementation
- Individual giving
- Major donor cultivation
- Board management
- Corporate and foundation relations
- Grant writing support
- Event management
- Organizational culture representation
- Strategic planning
- Salesforce
- Microsoft Office
Location
- Buffalo
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-8 years
Education Level
- BA/BS
- MBA
- MPP
Salary/Compensations
- $70,000 - $78,000
Benefits
- Vacation
- Sick days
- Organization holidays
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment coverage
- Disability coverage
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
- 401(k) plan
About the Company
- City Year is a non-profit organization focused on community service and youth development.
Equal Opportunity
- City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.