Director of Development

City Year • Full-time • Hybrid in Orlando, Florida, United States • $75,000 - $85,000 / year • 3w ago

Fast Facts

The Director of Development at City Year in Orlando will design and execute fundraising strategies to enhance donor engagement and drive growth for the organization.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include developing donor engagement strategies, managing board relations, leading fundraising events, and overseeing a team of development professionals.

Skills: Candidates should have 5-8 years of fundraising experience, strong writing and interpersonal skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office, with knowledge of Salesforce preferred.

Qualifications: A BA/BS is required, with preference for candidates holding MBAs or relevant advanced degrees; familiarity with the Orlando donor community is advantageous.

Location: This position is based 100% on-site in Orlando, FL with occasional travel outside the city.

Compensation: $75000 - $85000 / Annually

Application Instructions

Click Apply to submit your online application. Please attach a resume and thoughtful cover letter on the "My Experience" page in the "Resume/CV" field.

Active City Year Staff members must login to Workday to apply internally.

Number of Positions: 1Work Location: 100% On-Site

Position Overview

Director, Development is responsible for designing and executing the Development strategy that will allow City Year to leverage the resources, talents, and skills of the philanthropic sector to build the site and create change in communities across the city.

Job Description

Responsibilities

External Relations: Working closely with the Executive Director to plan the strategy of donor engagement across sectors: private, government, and education (state policy, district funding). Serve as a representative of City Year in the external community attending events on a frequent basis. Build meaningful relationships that result in securing both monetary and in-kind multi-year support for City Year.

Implement Growth Campaign: Work with the Executive Director to develop, plan, and implement a campaign to allow for City Year’s continued growth throughout Orlando. Additionally, add development capacitates to execute against City Year’s Long Term Impact goals.

Individual Giving Program Development: Develop innovative strategies to promote individual giving to City Year. Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of current and future major donors. Refine City Year Giving initiatives and increase participation with individual donor gifts of $10,000+. Work

directly with the Executive Director to ensure annual Advisory Board giving is 100%.

Board Management and Engagement: Work with the Executive Director to manage the Board throughout the year and during quarterly Board meetings. Maintain engagement both financially and otherwise to ensure Board retention and satisfaction. Corporate and Foundation Management: Establish corporate and foundation strategy and lead grant prospecting, management, and stewardship of relationships and communication with City Year’s corporate foundation funders. Work to increase corporate and foundation multi-year gifts.

Manage a Team of Development Professionals: Directly manage 1 or more development staff including Development Consultant. As resources grow, hire, manage, and retain additional development professionals.

Fundraising Events: Work with the Development Consultant and the Executive Director in leading special events to raise the awareness of City Year; fundraise and engage individuals, foundations, and corporations as champions and donors.

Events include but are not limited to: Drive for Success Golf

Event, Women’s Leadership Event, Annual Gala, and Private Receptions. This role will provide support of key City Year awareness impact events as well.

City Year Culture: Represent, respect, and role model City Year organizational culture and values on a daily basis internally as a member of the site Senior Leadership Team and externally as a representative of the organization.

Organizational Management: Help shape organizational strategy and play a leadership role in implementing the site’s local operating plan as a member of the Senior Leadership Team. Work collaboratively with other site departments on a frequent basis and with City Year’s nationalCity Year is committed to a diverse workforce. Individuals from all backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Headquarters in Boston. Ensure accurate maintenance of records and donor information in the

SalesForce database and in local network and paper files.

Basic Qualifications

5-8 years of progressive fundraising, grant management, and development experience with proven fundraising track record that includes multi-year giving.
BA/BS required. Preference given to MBAs, MPPs, and/or other relevant advanced degrees.
Solid, persuasive writing skills required.
Experience serving on diverse teams required.
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills required.
Knowledge of the Orlando donor community preferred.
Strong and efficient use of Microsoft Office required, knowledge of Salesforce platform a plus.
Ability to work with diverse groups of young adults in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team environment.
Schedule will occasionally require nights and weekends and will involve periods of travel outside the Orlando 3-4 times annually.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary range of $75K-85K. Great benefits including health insurance with Flexible Spending Account, paid vacation, holidays, parental leave, 401K, and more.

To Apply

Qualified applicants should apply and submit a resume, cover letter, and references.

Benefits

Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click here.

Employment at City Year is at-will.

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.