Deputy Director of Individual Giving

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.

CBPP combines rigorous research and analysis, strategic communications, and effective advocacy to shape debates, affect policy, and inform effective implementation both nationally and in states. It works closely with a broad set of national, state, and community organizations to design and advance policies that promote economic justice; improve health; broaden opportunity in areas like housing, health care, employment, and education; and lower structural barriers for people of color and others in communities that continue to face systemic barriers to opportunity.

CBPP promotes policies that will build a more equitable nation and fair tax policies that can support these gains over the long term. CBPP also shows the harmful impacts of policies and proposals that would deepen poverty, widen disparities, and worsen health outcomes.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities seeks a highly motivated and relationship-oriented Deputy Director specializing in Individual Giving to join its Development team. Reporting to the Deputy Chief Development Officer, this role provides an exciting opportunity to create and implement CBPP’s individual giving strategies with a special focus on identifying, cultivating, and stewarding new prospects. The Deputy Director will work to increase the number of major donors to CBPP from individuals, families, and Donor Advised Funds.

They will also manage the engagement strategies, solicitations, and data tracking and analysis needed to run a successful individual giving program, which includes creating and implementing a new recurring giving program.

The Deputy Director of Individual Giving will join a nine-person development team and serve as a strategic partner to the Chief Development Officer and the Deputy Chief Development Officer. They will create and lead the individual giving program strategy, including developing and growing relationships alongside CBPP’s leadership with the organization’s top donors; lead the individual giving’s moves management strategy; and work across the team to design and implement cultivation and stewardship strategies.

• Manage and grow a portfolio of current major gift donors and family foundations, coordinating relationship management for senior leadership and planning timely and appropriate communications over email, phone, and in-person, as well as a targeted multi-channel year-end campaign in collaboration with the Stewardship and Cultivation team.
• Create a strategy to effectively increase the number of mission-driven donors and steward mid-level and small-dollar donors and increase their giving as appropriate, as part of creating and managing a sustainable giving program.
• Lead the creation and implementation of a recurring giving program in order to establish a sustainable pipeline of donors and subsequent stewardship strategy and increase the number of recurring gifts to CBPP.
• Grow the major gift donors and family foundations portfolio through a crafted moves management strategy to ensure a robust pool of donors at all levels. Identify and cultivate relationships with prospective donors, engaging them in CBPP’s work and moving them through the giving pipeline. Stewarding current major donors and leveraging Salesforce, wealth screening, and other prospect research tools to deepen relationships.
• Collaborate with development colleagues,…