Director of Development

Join our team and shape the future of philanthropy! The Foundation is seeking a strategic, relationship-driven Director of Development to lead our fundraising efforts, cultivate lasting donor relationships, and build a sustainable philanthropic base to support our mission and future growth.

This is a fundraising generalist and relationship-development position focused on strategic growth, donor stewardship, major gifts, planned giving, and development infrastructure, rather than grant-writing.

• Employment Type: Part-Time, Ongoing Contract
• Location: Remote
• Hours: 15–20 hours per week
• Salary Range: $40,000–$55,000 annually
  , depending on experience, scope, and hours.

The Director of Development will design and execute the Foundation’s resource-development activities. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in nonprofit fundraising, donor stewardship, major gifts, and planned giving, with the ability to turn strategies into measurable revenue growth.

Because the Foundation is a small organization, the successful candidate must be both strategic and hands-on, capable of building development systems and processes while personally managing donor relationships, solicitations, stewardship, and fundraising activities.

• Annual Planning: Design and implement a comprehensive annual fundraising plan.
• Goal Setting: Establish clear, measurable fundraising goals and benchmarks.
• Revenue Diversification: Build and execute diversified unrestricted and restricted giving strategies.
• Systems Building: Establish donor cultivation, stewardship, and tracking systems.
• Pipeline Development: Develop a sustainable pipeline of annual, major, corporate, foundation, and planned-giving prospects.
• Performance Analysis: Regularly evaluate fundraising results, trends, donor retention, acquisition, and return on development investment and recommend adjustments as needed.

• Cultivation: Develop cultivation materials to create a donor base.
• Segmentation: Evaluate, segment, and analyze the donor base once established.
• Pipeline Management: Build and manage a healthy donor cultivation and acquisition pipeline.
• Major Gifts: Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major-gift prospects.
• Annual Giving: Develop strategies to increase annual giving and recurring donor support.
• Recognition: Create meaningful donor recognition and retention strategies.
• Stewardship
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  Ensure timely, appropriate, and personalized acknowledgment and stewardship of donors and gifts.
• Relationship Management
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  Develop and maintain strong relationships with individual donors, corporate partners, professional advisors, and other philanthropic stakeholders.

• Program Launch: Establish a comprehensive planned-giving and legacy program.
• Campaigning: Develop targeted communications regarding wills, bequests, beneficiary designations, and other legacy gifts.
• Prospect Development: Identify and cultivate prospective planned-giving donors.
• Collaboration: Partner with the CEO, Board leadership, and professional financial and legal advisors to secure legacy gifts.
• Documentation: Establish appropriate procedures for documenting and tracking planned-giving intentions and commitments.

• Board Support: Help Board members understand and execute their fundraising, donor cultivation, stewardship, and ambassador roles.
• Prospect Tools: Provide Board members with appropriate donor prospect information, talking points, outreach tools, and ambassador activities.
• Board Training: Provide practical training and coaching to Board members who participate in donor cultivation and solicitation.
• Leadership Engagement: Work closely with the CEO and Board President to…