Director of Development
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Director of Development leading Recidiviz’s fundraising team. Securing major philanthropic gifts and scaling capital for criminal-justice reform expansion.
Responsibilities:
- Lead Recidiviz’s fundraising team and ensure sufficient philanthropic capital to achieve organizational goals
- Secure $20M+ in philanthropic capital for expansion to new states and deeper impact
- Balance steady-state and big-bet fundraising, securing transformational gifts and cultivating a broad base of funders
- Set fundraising team strategy and vision, establish ambitious goals, and coach and develop the team
- Own Principal Gifts and relationships with the highest-diligence funders
- Build a healthy philanthropic pipeline and grow year-over-year revenue
- Maintain funder engagement through stewardship points, updates, and relationship management
- Translate technical, data-driven impact into compelling cases for support
- Prepare and lead funder meetings and major proposal/reporting cycles
- Set revenue targets, fundraising rounds, renewal/new-funder priorities, and big-bet/steady-state strategy
- Own the fundraising plan and revenue targets with senior leadership
- Manage and grow the team, including goals, coaching, pipeline reviews, proposal calendars, and reporting cadence
- Build scalable fundraising systems and processes for data hygiene, reporting templates, and stewardship touchpoints
- Represent fundraising priorities across Finance, Impact Analytics, and program teams
- Collaborate with Finance, Impact Analytics, state, product, design, and GTM teams
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience
- Significant experience in nonprofit development / for-profit fundraising leadership role, with a track record of managing a team and meeting revenue goals
- Excellent relationship-building skills with senior, sophisticated stakeholders, such as major donors, principals, and foundation staff
- Comfort and credibility with high diligence, quantitative funders — able to translate complex, data-driven impact into a clear, rigorous case for support
- Strong people-management skills: able to coach, set goals for, and grow the capacity of a small team
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to represent Recidiviz's mission and impact persuasively
- Visa sponsorship is not available
- Nice to have: Experience in government, public-sector, or B2G contexts, or with mission-driven and nonprofit organizations
- Nice to have: Existing relationships within the tech for good, economic development, justice, and adjacent fundraising ecosystems
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