Development Manager – Community Fundraising
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Job Description
Development Manager advancing Foundation Fighting Blindness fundraising across Raleigh, Charlotte, and South Carolina. Leading volunteers, donors, events, and community partnerships toward $500K in annual revenue.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and carry out fundraising strategies that grow revenue year over year across assigned communities
- Build and maintain relationships with volunteers, donors, local businesses, sponsors, and community partners
- Work with volunteer committees to plan and execute fundraising events and activities
- Partner with the Regional Director and internal teams to set territory priorities, milestones, and success measures
- Recruit, support, and motivate volunteer leaders
- Serve as the Foundation’s primary community representative
- Share resources, build awareness, and communicate scientific progress accessibly
- Use the donor database to track engagement, understand giving potential, support outreach, and inform fundraising decisions
- Tailor approaches to each community’s strengths and needs
- Manage materials and resources for events and local engagement
- Develop sufficient scientific understanding to explain the Foundation’s work and impact on individuals and families
- Report to the Regional Director
- Manage no direct reports
Requirements:
- Must have 3-5+ years of experience in fundraising, community engagement, development, volunteer management, or a related non-profit role
- Demonstrated success meeting or growing revenue goals, including individual giving, corporate sponsorships, peer-to-peer fundraising, or event-based fundraising
- Strong relationship-building skills with volunteers, donors, community partners, and local businesses
- Experience recruiting, supporting, and working effectively with volunteer leaders, committees, or chapter-based volunteers
- Comfortable serving as a visible, public-facing representative within local communities
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, stakeholders, and events across a defined territory
- Experience using a donor database or CRM such as Salesforce, Raiser’s Edge, or similar
- Clear and compassionate communication skills, including explaining complex information accessibly
- Ability to work independently while collaborating closely with internal teams in a remote environment
- Willingness to learn and communicate scientific or technical information at a high level
- Comfortable with regular regional travel and occasional evening or weekend work for events
- Proficient with Microsoft 365, Zoom, databases, and calendars
- Experience working with chapter-based or volunteer-led networks preferred
Benefits:
- Additional 5% annual incentive bonus eligibility
- Company-provided HP or Mac laptop
- Company-provided monitor
- Company-provided printer
- $120 monthly technology stipend
- Flexible schedule
- Remote/home-office arrangement
- Occasional evening and weekend flexibility for events
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