Development Manager, External Affairs

Organization Overview

Green Light Fund is a national nonprofit with a local focus that partners with communities to create opportunities for inclusive prosperity.

Each year we facilitate a community-driven process that matches the local needs of individuals and families not met by existing programs, to organizations with track records of success elsewhere. Working with communities, we identify, invite in and launch proven organizations, providing collaborative support so they can quickly take root and deliver change.

Everything we do is designed to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity all too often rooted in racial inequities. Our impact increases exponentially as we address one specific, community-identified need each year, in each Green Light site.

Since 2004, we have launched 39 portfolio organizations across eleven sites, invested $26M, and attracted an additional $169M from other funding sources, reaching more than 417,000 individuals and families in 2021 alone.

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Green Light Fund seeks an energetic, organized, and people-centered National Development Manager to join our External Affairs team, which supports Green Light sites to effectively and efficiently execute their donor stewardship plans, and creates and maintains systems and processes for donor engagement. The Development Manager will provide hands-on coaching to Green Light sites to ensure they have the knowledge, tools and capabilities they need to successfully engage their donors and build their local fundraising support.

The External Affairs team is led by the Vice President, External Affairs. The Development Manager will report to the VP, External Affairs, and will work collaboratively across the External Affairs team and the Green Light Fund national network.

• In partnership with the External Affairs team and sites, increase capacity for effective fundraising and donor relations by providing development administrative support for key development activities including tracking donation and payment activity, grant proposals and reports, and stewardship materials.
• In partnership with the External Affairs team, develop outreach materials, acknowledgment and stewardship templates and other documents, tools, or templates as requested.
• Maintain and troubleshoot suite of fundraising reports used to manage network-wide fundraising progress via Salesforce; provide technical support to sites as needed.
• Serve as resident expert on Green Light’s fundraising systems and processes, providing resources and guidance to site associates as they support their sites’ fundraising and donor relations activities.

• Provide hands-on support and capacity to new site EDs until their first Associate is hired and onboarded (e.g. keeping Salesforce updated, managing up as the ED executes their donor stewardship plans, support on grant proposal and report writing as needed).
• Provide temporary, time-bound support to sites that experience unexpected staff turnover to help sustain external affairs-related needs.

• Ensure documents and resources related to site support are captured in the External Affairs resource library and easily navigable for site staff (knowledge management).
• Collaborate with External Affairs staff to ensure sites’ implementation experience is informing the ongoing refinement and continuous improvement external affairs resource library by maintaining active feedback loops between sites and the external affairs team.
• Co-lead planning, hiring, onboarding, and management of External Affairs interns and fellows, as well as the alignment of interns and fellows across sites as needed.
• Participate in cross-functional work groups and collaborate on special projects that advance key organizational priorities.
• Support sites in the execution of successful fundraising events through weekly calls and day-to-day support before and after events. This includes providing on-site event support and donation processing across Green Light Fund’s national network.
• Provide occasional coverage for other EA…