Senior Director of Development

JUFJ seeks a skilled and collaborative Senior Director of Development to provide strategic leadership for all programs of the Development Department, ensuring their effectiveness in meeting immediate revenue goals while building relationships and organizational capacity needed for long term sustainability.

The position reports to the Executive Director and works closely with the Communications & Data Team, the Operations & Finance Team, organizing staff, and key volunteer leaders. This is a full-time, exempt position. This role supervises members of the Development Team, currently the Major Gifts Officer and Grants Manager.

Jews United for Justice advances economic, racial, and social justice in Washington, DC;
Maryland; and Virginia by organizing our local Jewish communities and allies to take action. We move our region closer to equity and justice by advancing issue-based campaigns that make real, immediate, and concrete improvements in people’s lives and build the power of working-class and poor communities of color. Through these campaigns we develop leaders, build our Jewish grassroots community, shift the consciousness of our community, and build the collective power needed to undo systemic racism and inequality.

In addition to our regional work, JUFJ houses the Collaborative for Jewish Organizing, a network that supports 9 Jewish organizing institutions through collective fundraising and capacity-building. Learn more about JUFJ .

Strategic Leadership

• Develop, lead, and evaluate JUFJ’s fundraising goals and strategies, in consultation with the Executive Director. Develop data-informed budgets and strategies for the short term that build towards long-term growth from local, national, secular and Jewish foundations, major and grassroots donors, planned giving, and fundraising events
• Partner with the Executive Director and Board on major fundraising initiatives
• Develop, evaluate, and refine systems to implement JUFJ’s fundraising strategies and ensure coordination and donor stewardship across the organization
• Benchmark and learn from peer institutions to ensure JUFJ is on track and employing best practices
• Contribute to the organization’s strategic direction and institutional decisions
• Provide strategic insight and support to the fundraising efforts of the Collaborative for Jewish Organizing
• Lead the organization’s institutional giving strategy: work with the Grants Manager to identify prospective funders, develop tailored pitches, draft and refine proposal narratives, and ensure timely submission and reporting for all grants
• Build and maintain a personal portfolio of key funders
• Oversee JUFJ’s individual donor strategy, including grassroots fundraising and JUFJ’s annual fundraising event, the Heschel Vision Awards, and directing the work of the Major Gifts Officer
• Represent the organization externally, including the ability to tell compelling stories about mission and impact
• Support the Executive Director and Major Gifts Officer in high-level donor engagement and solicitation

Team Supervision and Management

• Lead the Development team’s collaboration and alignment, while creating clarity about individual team member’s roles and responsibilities.
• Supervise and support team members, including providing coaching, mentorship, and accountability
• Work collaboratively with staff and key volunteer leaders to implement Development activities, including project managing cross-departmental projects such as the Heschel Vision Awards, Peer to Peer fundraising campaigns, etc.
• Ensure that staff have clear and achievable objectives, as well as the resources and organizational support needed to carry out responsibilities and effectively manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Partnership

• Set the direction and strategy for donor communications and then collaborate with development, communications, and data staff to implement direct mail and online fundraising activities
• Support interdepartmental collaboration across the organization, fostering an ethos of strategic coordination and transparency
• Establish supportive and collaborative working relationships…