Deputy Director – Donor Organizing
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Deputy Director organizing donors and supervising fundraising staff for SURJ, a national racial and economic justice organization.
Responsibilities:
- Support SURJ’s donor organizing work among a team of solicitors
- Lead donor political education and leadership development, donor-focused programming, and collaborative experiments with partners
- Supervise two or more development team staff, including the Impact Team Organizer and National Membership Organizer
- Conduct weekly supervision check-ins and facilitate Donor Organizing Team meetings
- Manage annual and quarterly work plans and support staff in reaching monthly deliverables and quarterly goals
- Design and lead two annual in-person Donor Organizing Team meetings
- Translate the long-term development vision into day-to-day team workflows
- Lead hiring and onboarding of new Donor Organizing Team members
- Build programming for people with access to wealth focused on political education, leadership development, and belonging
- Support Impact Team recruitment, training, coaching, donor outreach, relationship-building, and fundraising
- Support peer-to-peer fundraising and recruitment of volunteer donor organizers
- Maintain relationships with donor networks and co-create collaborative programming
- Build and maintain authentic donor relationships using a relational fundraising approach
- Manage and grow individual giving and donor organizing for donors contributing over $25,000
- Develop fundraising list segments and campaign cultivation materials
- Craft renewal, appeal, and reinstatement messaging
- Establish solicitation timelines, meet deadlines, and make direct funding asks
- Identify major or planned giving prospects
- Support solidarity contributions to SURJ movement partners
- Manage a donor portfolio totaling approximately $1.4 million
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience supervising individuals and teams
- 10+ years demonstrated leadership in fundraising or some combination of fundraising and organizing experience
- Experience with CRM database systems, including Every Action and complex spreadsheets
- Experience working with and supervising a wide range of people, from volunteers to Board members to donors
- Fully vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to reasonable accommodation under federal, state, and local law
- Experience supporting people across a range of class identities in donor relationship-building and communication
- Familiarity with large donor progressive networks and philanthropic ecosystem
- Experience with and commitment to SURJ's work, and a commitment to racial and economic justice
- Class consciousness and ability to communicate clearly and respectfully with members, partners, board, and staff from diverse class backgrounds, communities, geographies and cultures
- Ability to represent development and SURJ in internal and external meetings
- Excellent supervision skills, including ability to blend to a variety of work styles and create a cohesive work culture
- Strategic and systems thinking
- Facilitation design and implementation across a range of needs
- Excellent relational and verbal communication skills
- Excellent time management skills and experience prioritizing tasks amidst competing demands
- Strong written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to be highly relational while holding people accountable and creating a culture of compassion and rigor
Benefits:
- Health, dental and vision insurance including available employer contribution toward spouse, children and family coverage
- 401K retirement plan with up to 6% employer match
- Twenty (20) days paid time off per year (prorated)
- Twenty (20) days of health and wellness leave per year (prorated)
- Thirteen (13) paid holidays per year
- Three additional paid weeks off for organization-wide shutdown summer & winter breaks
- Employer paid short-term and long-term disability insurance
- Employer paid life insurance
- All staff works remote from home
- Monthly $150 technology support stipend (internet, phone)
- Professional development resources each year
- Paid parental leave
- Paid sabbatical after 5 years
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