Development Manager

Collaborates with Development Officer to create measurable annual and multi-year fundraising goals and strategies. 

Monitors progress toward annual workplan, sharing regular reports on successes and challenges with supervisor. 

Develops, writes, edits, submits, and coordinates fundraising and sponsorship proposals, solicitations, thank you letters, and acknowledgement letters to government entities, corporations, foundations, and individuals. 

Prepares, reviews, and submits interim and final reports to funders. 

Works with program staff to gather insight and feedback on proposals and reports. 

Works with program and finance staff to obtain accurate budgets and financial records. 

Identifies and researches prospective supporters and prepares recommendations on how to approach them for funding. 

Ensures accurate crediting of supporters. 

Maintains records and data for all donors and funders. 

Manages online donation platform. 

Prepares and sends all major development mailings and solicitations. 

Plans, organizes, staffs, and coordinates meetings and logistics, including inviting attendees; preparing documentation and agendas; and managing AV and other logistics. 

Supports outreach and scheduling for the development team. 

Contributes to budgeting process by gathering and tracking expenses. 

Embraces and uses organization’s technology tools and systems, including Salesforce, Asana, and Classy.  

Collaborates with IT to identify, implement, and manage Development software needs. 

Grows personal intercultural competence. Continually develops intercultural competency and seeks opportunities for all staff to continue to make change together.    

Works collaboratively across the organization—communicating courteously and professionally and maintaining working relationships with others. 

Actively participates in staff meetings.  

Takes part in cross-departmental working groups as needed and available. 

Represents the organization nationally, regionally, and locally, in the community, with funders and stakeholders, as applicable. 

Adaptability: willingness to embrace change, test innovative ideas, and learn new ways of working.  

Collaboration: eagerness to share resources and work with others toward organizational goals.  

Fluency with technology: understanding that much of our work occurs in digital systems, which require ongoing learning.  

Our values and mission: understand and embrace our values and missions, particularly how they reflect our commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.  

Sharing power: takes on leadership and followership roles.  

Ability to make decisions and solve problems.   

Ability to organize time and anticipate, plan, and manage multiple priorities with deadlines.   

Ability to maintain confidentiality when dealing with sensitive or private information.  

Ability to represent the organization in the community with a variety of stakeholders.  

Ability to negotiate contracts and terms of agreements and manage external vendor relationships.  

Knowledge of meeting planning techniques, and ability to make detailed meeting arrangements.   

Financial skills sufficient to develop, understand, and/or interpret program budgets and financial reports. Knowledge of general accounting concepts and practices. 

Verbal communication skills and an ability to present information to various audiences. Ability to write at a 9th grade level to draft and proof written material, including materials that persuades potential contributors to support the organization. Reading comprehension skills sufficient to understand varied narrative and financial documents.  

Knowledge of and ability to operate standard office hardware and software, including customer relationship management systems and web-based software programs.