Development Manager

Development Manager

Collaborative for Children - HOUSTON, TEXAS

Position Type Full Time Job Shift Day

WORK AT COLLABORATIVE.

Development Manager

Fund Development team

HYBRID POSITION

THE CHALLENGE AND THE OPPORTUNITY :

A child's earliest years shape every milestone that follows: school success, workforce readiness, and economic opportunity. We are creating an ecosystem of the highest quality child care in the communities that need it most, so Houston gains a stronger and better skilled future labor force.

Are YOU ready to help more young children enter kindergarten curious, confident, and ready to learn? If you have at least 2-5 years fundraising experience, preferably within a non-profit, have managed an organization's fundraising efforts, and have experience cultivating successful relationships with individuals and organizations to secure philanthropic and government support, we encourage you to apply for this amazing opportunity!

When you join our fund development team, some of the essential work and responsibilities you will manage and handle will include:

• Identify, cultivate and steward relationships with individuals, foundations, and corporations that lead to increasing Annual Fund support.
• In conjunction with the CEO, solicit gifts through a comprehensive Annual Giving plan.
  • Develop and produce all solicitation materials for Annual Giving Campaign appeals
  • Assist in producing reports that evaluate the Annual Fund strategies, progress, and ROI on a regular basis.
  • Prepare data analyses, donor research, and campaign management in the database to further solicitation priorities
• Working with the CEO, lead the implementation of donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship events or activities plans
• Collaborate with Marcoms to ensure marketing materials and collateral align with event and cultivation themes, and update materials on all fundraising projects and campaigns, including, but not limited to:
  Giving Tuesday, mailings, emails, phone calls, texting, and websites.
  • Manage audience demographics to ensure the right people receive the right message through the right channels at that right time
  • Manage donor stewardship communication with supporters to establish effective communications
• Oversee vendor contracts and relationships to ensure accuracy and monitor department expense budget
• Work with CEO to develop event budgets as well as monitor and track expenses
• Assist with implementation of a Planned Giving program
• Lead and/or support special and signature events with the CEO, working with community partners, vendors, other Collab staff and Board of Directors to ensure success of events.
• Support external and internal special events and activities, including attending meetings, correspondence and coordination with vendors, staff, volunteers; set-up and cleanup; organize and maintain files and records of all events and activities.
• Work with the donor database to ensure information is current and accurate.
  • Build and manage the solicitation calendar ensuring that all solicitations are segmented and targeted, maintaining key performance metrics and delivered on time.
  • Collaborate with grant writer to provide grant tracking details and follow up with internal Programs colleagues for final reporting
  • Reconcile and prepare requested reports for Accounting, funders, Programs, etc.
• Provide friendly, donor-centered customer service and represent Collab's mission in a professional and positive manner.

We embrace diversity in backgrounds, talents, experiences, interests, and ideas. Attributes that resonate in our most successful employees include: passion for our mission, drive for results, high level of organization and detail orientation, resilience and authenticity. Other traits, knowledge, skills, and abilities needed and desired for these positions include:

• Minimum Must have a bachelor's degree, preferably with an emphasis or concentration in marketing, public relations, business or related field
• Two Five years fundraising experience, preferably within a non-profit
• Previous experience with youth service organizations and with socio-economically diverse populations beneficial.
• Demonstrated success…