Director of Development

With a mission of organizing and sustaining a powerful consumer voice to ensure that all individuals and communities can influence the local, state and national decisions that affect their health, Community Catalyst has been transforming the health care landscape for more than two decades. Based in Boston with offices in Washington DC, New York City, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Lansing, MI, and Atlanta, Community Catalyst organized and currently supports a growing network of healthcare advocates in more than 40 states who are on the front lines advancing a pro-consumer health policy agenda in their states and communities.

Expanding health care access and coverage. Improving the quality of care. Protecting individuals and families from crushing medical bills. Holding health care institutions and corporations accountable to the public interest. Spurring and supporting advocacy to address social and economic factors that affect the health of people and communities. Promoting health care policies that reflect a commitment to health equity and social justice.

This is Community Catalyst.

Members of the Community Catalyst team have spearheaded some of the most visionary health policy campaigns in a generation, including the movement-defining push for universal health care in Massachusetts that was a model for the Affordable Care Act. Staff members provide policy, legal, communications, organizing, and advocacy expertise so that advocates across the country are equipped with proven strategies, real-time information, and the necessary tools to succeed.

Community Catalyst is also engaged in efforts to impact policy making through its 501(c)(4) arm, the Community Catalyst Action Fund.

After an extensive national search following the unexpected departure of its long-serving senior executive last year, Emily Stewart was recently named as Community Catalyst’s new Executive Director with a start date of September 9, 2019. (See: Community Catalyst Names Emily J. Stewart as Executive Director .) This leadership transition represents a unique opportunity for Community Catalyst’s development efforts, bringing fresh energy and vision to development strategies, providing new ways to engage with supporters, and offering the Development Director the chance to work hand-in-hand with an innovative leader to take fundraising to new levels of growth and success.

At this time when the number of uninsured has begun to rise again, when new consumer protections are under attack and efforts to turn back recent progress remain, the work of Community Catalyst has perhaps never been more important.

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Boston, MA (preferred); candidates in Washington, DC and/or New York City will be given serious consideration.

This position reports to the Executive Director with dotted line responsibility to the Chief Operating Officer and will directly supervise 2.5 staff, including two Assistant Development Directors (one focused on individual giving and the other on prospect research, writing, and database design and strategy) and a Development Associate.

The Director of Development is responsible for leading and expanding development programs that represents roughly $20 million in private fundraising dollars annually. The vast majority of Community Catalyst’s revenue comes from private foundations, representing some of the largest and most well-known funders in the country. In addition to the institutional funding portfolio, the organization has a small but important individual donor group with significant potential for expansion, as well as a successful consulting arm through the Center for Consumer Engagement in Health Innovation.

The Director of Development will be responsible for developing – in collaboration with the E.D., Chief Operating Officer, and Program Leadership – an overall development strategy for Community Catalyst that leverages existing relationships and identifies opportunities for growth across all revenue categories.

A primary accountability for the Director of Development will be to steward existing…