Vice President of Development

Posted: September 8, 2026
Expires: November 7, 2026

2250 N. Detroit Ave., Toledo, OH 43606

TITLE
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Vice President of Development

REPORTS TO
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President & Chief Executive Officer

FLSA STATUS:
Exempt

COMPENSATION: $110,000-$120,000

The Director of Development is a senior leadership role responsible for building the strategy, relationships, systems, and team necessary to significantly grow philanthropic support for BGCT. Working closely with the President & CEO, the Director will bring an already successful development operation to new levels of professionalism and results by developing and implementing an explicit, multi-year strategic resource development plan encompassing annual giving, major gifts, corporate and foundation relationships, donor stewardship, and fundraising events.

The Director will personally manage a portfolio of key donors and prospects while building a disciplined, metrics-driven development operation that supports BGCT's long-term growth. This role will assume increasing ownership of donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and long-range development strategy, freeing the President & CEO to focus on large-scale management and strategic initiatives. This position directly supervises development-related staff, including individual and annual giving, corporate and foundation giving, grants, donor stewardship, development operations, and special events, while establishing clear accountability, measurable performance expectations, and an integrated team approach to achieving BGCT's annual and long-term resource development goals.

• Develop and lead execution of an annual resource development plan, including the annual campaign, monthly giving, and a major gift program.
• Build and manage a personal major gift portfolio in partnership with the CEO, with a defined plan to assume increasing ownership of key donor relationships as trust transfers.
• Lead donor cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and retention using metrics-based moves management.
• Partner with the President/CEO on donor and resource development strategy for organizational growth initiatives, including any future affiliation, merger, or shared-services work.
• Set fundraising goals and strategy for special events and integrate them into the overall donor cultivation plan, in partnership with the Corporate Engagement and Events Manager — without owning event logistics directly.
• Identify and cultivate prospects across individual, corporate, and foundation sources, with growing attention to larger and national funder relationships as the organization scales.
• Directly supervise the development team, developing strategy and setting and managing revenue targets.
• Coordinate closely on donor data, moves management strategy development, and stewardship communications.
• Serve as point person for the volunteer Resource Development Committee and as a member of the volunteer Marketing Committee.
• Build board fundraising capacity through education, solicitation training, and direct support for board members' personal asks.
• Own accountability for achieving annual contributed-revenue goals and provide regular fundraising forecasts, pipeline reporting, and performance updates to the President & CEO.
• Build and continuously develop a qualified prospect pipeline, including the identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of major-gift prospects.
• Develop and manage the annual development budget and evaluate fundraising return on investment across campaigns, events, and donor acquisition and retention strategies.
• Partner with the Director of Programming and program leadership to translate program outcomes into compelling cases for support, donor impact…