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About the Role
Open Door Legal (ODL) is seeking a Director of Individual Giving to grow its community of supporters and secure major gifts. This role is crucial for matching the organization's rapid growth with equally paced revenue, ensuring universal access to civil legal representation. The successful candidate will cultivate major gifts, run inspiring campaigns, and tell compelling stories that turn supporters into champions. This position reports directly to the Chief Advancement Officer.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the annual campaign plan and broader individual giving strategy, including new donor acquisition, renewal, upgrade, and recurring giving.
- Personally manage a major gifts portfolio, from cultivation through solicitation and stewardship, using disciplined moves management.
- Manage fundraising marketing operations, including campaign calendar, audience segmentation, email and digital appeals, and donation pages, in partnership with the Development Operations Associate and Sr Engagement Coordinator.
- Own fundraising messaging, including appeals, impact stories, and stewardship content, ensuring consistency, compelling narratives, and alignment with ODL's brand and media policy.
- Analyze campaign and portfolio results to adjust strategy and advise the Chief Advancement Officer.
- Embrace and embody organizational values of teamwork, grit, caring, passion, and dynamism.
Requirements
- At least five (5) years of managerial and/or director-level experience in nonprofit individual giving, including major gifts and moves management.
- Demonstrated success in planning and running annual campaigns, including multichannel appeals.
- Experience with marketing operations tools, such as direct mail and email platforms, and a CRM (Salesforce preferred).
- Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills.
- An enthusiasm for and commitment to self-learning and professional development.
- Must be able and willing to work out of one or more office locations at least two (2) days/week.
- High level of comfortability learning and using technology and case management systems (Salesforce, Dropbox, and Google Suite).
- Commitment to equal access to justice and to ODL's values.
- Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
Skills
- Major gifts
- Moves management
- Annual campaigns
- Multichannel appeals
- Marketing operations
- Direct mail platforms
- Email platforms
- CRM (Salesforce preferred)
- Writing
- Editing
- Storytelling
- Analytical skills
- Organizational skills
- Project management
- Self-learning
- Technology utilization
- Case management systems
Location
- San Francisco
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Managerial
- Director-level
Salary/Compensations
- $125,500-$145,500
Benefits
- Loan Repayment Assistance for staff pursuing 10-year public interest debt forgiveness.
- Medical/Dental/Vision Plan offerings at 100% coverage.
- Generous paid time off (four weeks vacation and two weeks sick/care).
- Flexible work hours.
- Generous paid parental leave.
- 401K/Retirement Account.
- Financial investment in individual professional development (mentorships, coaching, conferences, workshops, etc.).
About the Company
- At Open Door Legal (ODL), we're pioneering the country’s first system of universal access to civil legal representation to dramatically reduce poverty and prove that the law really can belong to all of us.
- We’ve grown 150x in 10 years, and in the next 2 years, we hope to finish scaling across San Francisco.
- We’ve created an award-winning and best-in-class legal aid organization full of passionate, motivated, gritty, thoughtful, and team-oriented people.
- We believe that injustice is the heart of poverty, and we're looking for someone to join us in ensuring justice for all.
- We are a fun and hard-working office with best-in-class technology solutions for anyone who’s passionate about making a meaningful and measurable difference.
Equal Opportunity
- Open Door Legal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
- We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
- We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at whitney[at]opendoorlegal[dot]org.