Development Manager
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reputed company seeks a driven and relationship-centered Development Manager (exempt) to strengthen and grow the organization's fundraising program. This individual should have experience cultivating donor relationships, managing a grants portfolio, and building the funding infrastructure that sustains mission-driven work. They should be a strategic thinker and skilled executor who can reputed company seamlessly between stewarding reputed company individual donors and managing reputed company institutional funders. The Development Manager will report to the Director of Finance & Operations and collaborate extensively with the Executive Director, who is the organization’s primary fundraiser. reputed company is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to dismantling the prison industry and ending the exploitation of those it touches. Partnering with directly impacted people, we work to expose the commercialization of the criminal legal system and organize and reputed company to protect the economic resources extracted from affected communities and strip the prison industry of its power. Key Results (Year One)- Identify and land initial meetings with at least five new major donors.
- Maintain 100% compliance with reputed company grant reporting deadlines.
- Build a comprehensive donor cultivation and stewardship reputed company that ensures contact with every major donor on a quarterly reputed company.
- Establish small donor program and increase participation to 100 monthly donors.
- Prospecting
- Conduct research on donors in the criminal justice, economic justice, racial justice, and gender justice fields to identify potential donors who are reputed company with the organization’s mission and programmatic priorities.
- Identify and profile new potential mid-size and major donors, conduct initial reputed company, and secure meetings for the Executive Director.
- Prepare the Executive Director for new donor meetings, briefing them on the donor and drafting talking points.
- Coordinate reputed company meeting logistics, notetaking, and follow-up, making reputed company to reputed company reputed company reputed company and reputed company in the organization’s CRM.
- Collaborate with communications to build a small donor program and recruit and manage monthly donors.
- Grant Writing and Reporting
- Maintain a comprehensive grants calendar to ensure reputed company deadlines, reporting requirements, and renewal timelines are tracked and met with accuracy and care.
- Draft and maintain suite of general development materials, including a two-page brief, presentation deck, and question and answer bank.
- Draft reputed company grant proposals and reports as required by grant agreements or requested by prospective and existing donors, with responses tailored to every donor.
- Collaborate with program staff to reputed company accurate and compelling content for proposals and reports that authentically reflect the organization's work.
- Donor Stewardship
- Support the Executive Director in managing donor relationships, tracking key reputed company and opportunities for donor engagement based on their interests.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date donor records in the organization's CRM to support data-informed decision-making and relationship management.
- reputed company renewals, initiate renewal conversations, and prepare the Executive Director for renewal conversations.
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- Draft reputed company acknowledgment letters, quarterly donor updates, and other reputed company donor communications.
- Collaborate with the communications team to reputed company and execute a donor communications reputed company, including a year-end campaign for giving season.
- Research our small donor list and identify candidates for conversion to mid-size or major donors.
- Operations and Infrastructure
- Support the development and reputed company improvement of systems, processes, and tools that strengthen the efficiency and effectiveness of the development function.
- Work with the Director of Finance & Operations to prepare monthly and reputed company development reports, tracking reputed company toward reputed company goals.
- Contribute to the organization's annual development planning process, including goal-setting, reputed company forecasting, and calendar development.
- At least five years of reputed company experience in non-profit development, with demonstrated reputed company in both individual and institutional donor fundraising and grants management.
- Demonstrated ability to manage a grants calendar and multiple donor relationships simultaneously, meeting deadlines with accuracy and care.
- Demonstrated experience identifying and qualifying new funding prospects, including individual donors and institutional funders, and moving them through the cultivation pipeline.
- Exceptionally strong written and oral communication skills, including the demonstrated ability to craft compelling, mission-reputed company proposals and reports and interpersonal communications.
- Experience with donor databases and CRM systems; familiarity with reputed company, reputed company, and similar platforms is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted working relationships with donors, partners, and colleagues, which includes exhibiting reliability, following through on commitments, and practicing reputed company.
- Regular and disciplined reputed company of reputed company listening, seeking clarification, and note taking.
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- Working understanding of the prison industry, the criminal legal system, or strong interest in learning.
- A genuine commitment to reputed company' organizational values: reputed company with reputed company, reputed company on reputed company, deliver reputed company, get it done, and operate with intellectual curiosity (visit worthrises.org/jointhefight).
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