Development Director

Summary

The Development Director is a key member of the Senior Leadership Team, responsible for strategic leadership of New Life Center’s fundraising, donor engagement, volunteer engagement, and community partnership efforts. This role develops and executes a comprehensive fundraising and engagement strategy that generates contributed revenue, deepens supporter engagement, and expands opportunities for individuals, churches, businesses, and community partners to engage in the mission of New Life Center through giving, serving, and prayer.

• Department Leadership
  • Lead:
    Provide clear vision, direction, and alignment for the development team and volunteers, modeling New Life Center's core values and fostering a healthy, high-performing culture.
  • Manage:
    Ensure the right people are in the right roles, set clear expectations, develop team members through coaching and mentorship, and consistently monitor performance through effective communication, problem‑solving, and ongoing support.
  • Hold Accountable:
    Drive results by holding self and others accountable to goals, priorities, fundraising activity, donor engagement expectations, and measurable outcomes to ensure follow‑through and continuous improvement.
• Fundraising Strategy and Revenue Leadership
  • Create, implement, and continuously refine a comprehensive fundraising strategy with clear objectives, goals, and initiatives designed to achieve annual and long‑term contributed revenue targets.
  • Maintain accountability for all contributed revenue goals, including major gifts, annual giving, corporate giving, planned giving, events, digital fundraising, and other initiatives.
  • Cultivate meaningful, long‑term relationships with an assigned portfolio of existing and prospective donors with the capacity to make significant annual and transformational gifts.
  • Provide strategic oversight for donor programs, ensuring effective cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and long‑term donor engagement.
  • Lead and coach fundraising staff to strengthen relationship‑building, donor engagement, stewardship, and fundraising effectiveness.
  • Partner closely with the Marketing Director to align fundraising strategy, donor communications, campaigns, events, volunteer engagement initiatives, and community outreach efforts with revenue and relationship objectives.
  • Review donor data, giving trends, and fundraising performance metrics to inform strategy, identify growth opportunities, and strengthen long‑term revenue sustainability and diversification.
• Relationship Development, Volunteer Engagement, and Community Partnerships
  • Develop and strengthen meaningful relationships with donors, churches, businesses, community partners, and other key supporters to advance New Life Center's mission and strategic priorities.
  • Cultivate and manage a select portfolio of major donor relationships, focusing on individuals with the capacity to make significant annual and transformational gifts.
  • Oversee volunteer engagement strategy and experiences, ensuring volunteers are meaningfully connected, well‑supported, and aligned with organizational priorities.
  • Ensure a meaningful and consistent supporter experience that helps donors, volunteers, and partners clearly understand the impact of their involvement and encourages long‑term engagement.
  • Represent and periodically speak on behalf of New Life Center at community meetings, partner gatherings, churches, donor events, and public forums to strengthen awareness, trust, and support.
• Operations, Systems, and Administrative Oversight
  • Oversee donor and volunteer relationship‑management systems, including CRM administration, donor records, gift processing, receipting, and stewardship practices.
  • Monitor and report on fundraising, donor engagement,…