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Director guiding nonprofit organizations through institutional fundraising strategy, grant writing, and funder stewardship. Managing client teams and junior fundraising professionals at Elevate.
Responsibilities:
- Lead 4–5 client teams while overseeing junior staff
- Develop and implement comprehensive institutional fundraising strategies with clients
- Establish short- and long-term fundraising goals, prospecting priorities, and cultivation and stewardship systems
- Manage prospect research, cultivation, solicitation, and grant calendar deliverables
- Manage early-career development professionals
- Draft select proposals, reports, letters of inquiry, and concept papers
- Coach clients on fundraising strategy, grant writing, financials, program evaluation, budget development, measurement and evaluation, and organizational planning/sustainability
- Maintain accurate Salesforce records and support high-quality grant calendars and data analysis
- Identify fundraising obstacles and collaboratively develop solutions and contingencies
- Present complex problems, goals, and ideas accessibly to client stakeholders
- Report progress toward client goals to a dedicated Supervisor
- Contribute to Elevate’s culture, equity and inclusion commitment, and company values
Requirements:
- At least four years of experience or comparable experience with the listed key tasks and responsibilities
- Skilled institutional fundraising professional
- Ability to coach clients on fundraising strategy, grant writing, financials, and program evaluation
- Ability to oversee junior staff and manage 4–6 client teams
- Strong institutional fundraising strategy experience in at least two issue areas or funder landscapes
- Exemplary, strengths-based writing skills
- Program design knowledge sufficient to guide competitive funding proposals
- Comfort with budgets, basic program evaluation, and common grant attachments
- Ability to research aligned funding opportunities and support funder cultivation
- Experience maintaining Salesforce records, grant calendars, and data analysis systems
- Standard team management skills, including 1:1s, task delegation, oversight, and timely feedback
- Strong problem-solving, consulting, professional communication, prioritization, information processing, attention to detail, and continuous learning skills
- Proficiency with Dropbox, Salesforce, Google Groups, and Elevate’s standard tools and systems
- Legally authorized to work for Elevate in the United States
- Must work for Elevate in the United States
Benefits:
- Flexible work schedule
- Health insurance: Elevate pays over 94% of the medical premium, 80% of the dental premium, and 80% of the vision premium for employees only
- 15 vacation days
- 8 sick days
- 12 company holidays
- 24 hours of voting leave and civic engagement leave
- Winter Break, typically between December 24 and January 2
- Summer Break, typically the first week of July
- 4-week (21 day) paid sabbatical after six years of full-time service
- 401(k) retirement plan with 2% employer match after the first year
- Reimbursements for personal cell phone and home internet
- $200 initial office setup stipend plus an additional $100 annually
- $500 annual professional development stipend
- Free internal training program
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