Director of Development

Building lasting relationships, one donor at a time.

Preference will be given to candidates residing in Washington, Greene, and Fayette counties. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4-6 years of professional fundraising experience with 3+ years of leadership background in a nonprofit setting. Existing relationships within, Washington, Greene, and Fayette Counties are highly valued.

Minimum annual salary of $85,000 based on experience

DVSSP is dedicated to building an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible workplace that fosters a sense of belonging. If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t match every requirement in the job description, we encourage you to still consider applying. You may be a great fit and just the candidate we are looking for!

• Provide inspiring and visible leadership to effectively engage stakeholders in working to end domestic violence by empowering survivors, raising awareness, and creating safer communities.
• Solicit and retain donors.
• Work closely with the Executive Team and Board of Directors to develop fundraising strategies and goals that align with DVSSP’s values and strategic plan.
• Lead the creation, implementation, and evaluation of ongoing multi-year development plans.
• Understand and stay current with all DVSSP programming initiatives that create funding opportunities for supporters.
• Stay informed on professional advances in fundraising, nonprofit marketing and communications.
• Establish and follow appropriate policies, standards and guidelines for fundraising, grants management and database management including confidentiality, gift acceptance, gift receipting, recording, acknowledgement, and reporting.
• Establish fundraising goals and metrics of success, track progress, and report results of all organization efforts to generate support from individual prospects, foundation and corporate supporters, and institutional funders. Highlight successes and proactively identify areas for improvement.
• Develop and manage efforts to identify, cultivate, solicit and steward individual major and planned giving donors to DVSSP. Leverage the Executive team and Board members/Development Committee to build relationships with prospects and donors.
• Establish and manage a portfolio of major and planned giving donors and prospects. Enter reports of all contacts, interactions, and gifts in the donor database in a timely fashion.
• Work directly with the board and staff members to identify potential new individual major and planned giving gift prospects.
• Conduct regular portfolio review and strategy planning department meetings, including scheduling the meetings, preparing the agenda, ensuring necessary data is available for discussion.
• Work with the Board President and Development Committee Chair to plan and implement solicitation of annual board gifts.
• Support Board Members in their individual fundraising commitments; serve as staff liaison to Development Committee; attend Board of Directors meetings, prepare reports for the Development Committee Chair to share at each board meeting.
• Responsible for managing the fundraising plan and engaging with the Board, including presenting a dashboard of up-to-date Fundraising data. This person will work with the Development Committee Chair on their Board meeting presentations, including but not limited to assisting the Development Committee Chair with report preparation.
• Facilitate the development committee and the full board in being more active in fundraising; providing scripts for engagement calls, presenting a list of sponsors and establishing who the Board Members may have access to, etc.
• Develop and implement cultivation and solicitation strategies to raise support through “smart giving” avenues,…