Senior Manager, Development and Donor

Senior Manager, Development and Donor Experience

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Department: Development
Location: LA Office
Compensation: $100,000 - $105,000 / year

Impact Justice advances safety, justice, and opportunity through boundary‑breaking work that honors and empowers people and is changing expectations about what we can accomplish together. We imagine, build, and scale innovations, leverage research and other knowledge to connect the desire for change with informed action, and work to shift the narrative so that decision‑makers and the public understand what’s at stake and what’s possible.

The Senior Development Manager is a new role within Impact Justice’s growing Development team. The role’s key responsibilities are to strengthen donor and funder communications and engagement, enhance development team systems, and support revenue growth. With the Director of Development and other key Executive and Leadership team staff, the Senior Development Manager will increase individual and philanthropic support for the organization’s mission through relationship‑building work that’s typical at Impact Justice and through new efforts—like donor salon events, donor prison visits, and donor email series.

You’re a fundraiser, communicator, and connector who would love to join a small‑but‑mighty team working to raise funds to support a wide array of creative criminal justice reform work. You consider yourself a generalist who can get up to speed on a variety of issues and projects. You’re a quick study and a self‑starter who can work independently as effectively as you can in a team.

You’re a relationship‑first person who is always strategizing about ways to deepen connection with donors. You understand the development/donor lifecycle and you have some real‑world experience of putting this knowledge to use to drive gifts and awards from individuals and private funders. The challenges of pulling off a new donor event or launching a donor email series are exciting to you.

You’re a confident writer who’s open to feedback. You’re not too precious about your drafts; you appreciate edits, and your top priority is putting out the most engaging, effective content you can.

The anticipated start date for this position is March 2026. You will report to IJ’s Director of Development. Your core responsibilities will be:

• Drafting quality funder/donor cultivation and follow‑up emails for IJ’s leadership staff.
• Drafting and managing a periodic donor e‑newsletter and digital fundraising campaigns.
• Managing and improving donor thank‑you processes.
• Maintaining a growing and changing library of external resources for individual and institutional supporters. Editing external one‑pagers, concept notes, and decks.

• Leading the implementation of new event efforts, including better donor engagement at existing programmatic events and testing donor‑specific event formats like salons and prison visits.
• Supporting a calendar of thoughtful donor engagement and communication opportunities.
• Conducting prospect research for our existing individual donor base and new donor prospects.
• Building cultivation and stewardship plans for individuals and mid‑level/major donor tiers.

• Oversee and improve key systems, like Bloomerang, our Mailchimp‑Bloomerang integration, and QGiv online giving pages.
• Improve IJ’s digital journey for donors.

Successful candidates typically have 6+ years of professional experience and 5+ years of experience in nonprofit fundraising. Experience in related backgrounds—marketing and digital communications, campaign fundraising, event planning—is interesting and relevant to us. Your previous experience managing the types of tasks and projects that drive fundraising success and are relevant to this role are more important to us than years of experience alone.

That said, we know there are great candidates who may not think they fit into what we’ve described above or who have important skills we haven’t…