Capital Campaign Director
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Capital Campaign Director leading the Building People Power capital campaign at Critical Resistance. Focusing on strategy, fundraising, and donor engagement to resource abolitionist movement initiatives.
Responsibilities:
- Refine and implement a multi-phase campaign strategy from quiet phase cultivation through public launch and close.
- Align campaign calendar with CR’s programmatic, construction, and fiscal timelines.
- Track benchmarks, manage campaign budget, and report progress to key internal and external stakeholders.
- Coordinate consultants, advisors, and a Capital Campaign committee; assess overall campaign capacity and design.
- Develop annual fundraising plans and materials aligned with CR’s values, voice, and vision.
- Facilitate internal coordination and documentation across campaign staff, volunteers, and systems.
- Build and manage a portfolio of donors and funders giving $10K+ in one-time or multi-year commitments.
- Cultivate and solicit major individual and institutional gifts—including recoverable or blended capital where aligned.
- Coach and support CR staff, campaign committee, and volunteers in donor engagement and asks.
- Manage donor systems, acknowledgements, pledges, and grant proposals and reports.
- Collaborate on donor storytelling and events that highlight the campaign’s transformative impact.
- Cultivate a campaign culture grounded in CR’s abolitionist principles: collective care, accountability, and shared power.
- Represent CR and BPP in philanthropic, community finance, and movement-building spaces.
- Support documentation that uplifts BPP’s broader field impact and long-term strategic significance.
- Bridge CR with aligned fields (solidarity economy, community capital, and governance innovation.
Requirements:
- 5–7+ years of fundraising experience, including 3+ years in capital campaigns or major gifts
- Demonstrated success leading/co-leading multi-stakeholder fundraising and securing six-figure+ gifts
- Strong relationship-building across philanthropic and movement spaces
- Creative, values-aligned approach to capital strategy and narrative positioning
- Effective communicator and collaborator with strong writing, planning, and prioritization skills
- Comfort working in CRM systems (Salesforce a plus); experience managing campaign budgets and tracking systems
- Experience supporting or supervising fundraising staff, volunteers, or campaign committees
- Familiarity with integrated-capital strategies (e.g. grants, major gifts, recoverable capital, public/private partnerships) is a plus
- Deep commitment to prison industrial complex abolition; ability to learn and articulate CR’s mission and values
- Personal qualities: diligence, humility, integrity, emotional intelligence, and self-direction
- Confidence operating as a visible campaign leader while honoring collective leadership and grassroots values.
Benefits:
- Generous benefits package
- Flexible PTO plan
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