Development Director - Boston

The development director is an essential part of the Posse Boston development effort. The development director is responsible for working with the site director and Posse’s national development team to meet annual revenue goals. The development director, in coordination with the national development team, will plan, manage, and coordinate the site’s development efforts including building new strategies for expanded funding, identifying, cultivating and soliciting donors and overseeing and at times collaborating with team members on writing proposals and reports with accompanying budgets, thank you letters and other correspondence, planning events, soliciting corporate donations for events, and ensuring all necessary documents for grants management and audit purposes are properly filed.

• Work with development specialist to create and implement annual development plan and strategy to raise an annual budget of approximately $2million.
• Develop a pipeline of prospects for cultivation and solicitation and arrange meetings for site director and self with prospects.
• Cultivate and steward relationships with corporate & foundation staff, and individual donors.
• Maintain portfolios of fundraising prospects anddonors.
• Assist site director with advisory board meetings and other related activities.
• Manage the development officer/associate

• Write grant proposals, reports and budgets with team members or onown.
• Compose thank you letters and other correspondence of own and at times for site director.
• Working as a team with the site director, development officer/associate, and national development team to plan fundraising events to develop strategy for soliciting corporate donations forevents.
• Ensure site is properly filing all required documents for grants management and audit purposes.

We are looking for someone who is collaborative, innovative, hardworking and thrives in a fast-paced environment. The successful candidate will have these qualities/qualifications:

• Bachelor’sdegree
• Seven years minimum of work experience as a development professional
• Motivated and able to work independently as well as with ateam
• Willingness to take initiative
• Ability to multi-task, manage concurrent processes/projects, and focus on the small but important details in all projects while keeping the bigger picture inmind
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including grant writing
• Excellent office and computer skills. Proficient in Word, Excel, and experience working with a fundraising database
• Able to establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships with colleagues, donors, volunteers, and thepublic
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills
• Demonstrated belief in Posse’s mission andvalues