Development Director

Pregnancy Choices, established in 2006, is a life-affirming (do not provide or refer for abortion) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting under-served women, men, and their families in the south metro area of the Twin Cities. We provide crucial services including pregnancy testing, limited ultrasounds, STD/STI testing, and accurate information about pregnancy, abortion, and alternatives. Our safe, non-judgmental environment positively impacts lives through relationship-building, professional life coaching, and incentive educational programs.

We partner with women and men experiencing an unexpected pregnancy or relational poverty, and through life coaching uncover new possibilities and sustainable change for families.

The Development Director oversees our donor relations and manages our fundraising initiatives. They are responsible for developing our non-profit's fundraising campaigns, communicating with current and prospective donors, and building a stronger development team for our organization. This position involves managing individual and corporate gifts as well as planned and annual giving campaigns.

• Develop and oversee our annual fundraising program
• Generate an annual engagement calendar of activities for donors and alumni to engage
• Evaluate effectiveness of events, institute learning into future offerings
• Collaborate with staff on the management and planning of fundraising events and donor receptions
• Research public and private grant sources (agencies, corporations and foundations) to identify sources of restricted and unrestricted funding
• Organize individual donor campaigns (major donors, direct mail and board trustees)
• Organize solicitation drives for pledges of ongoing support from individuals, corporations, and foundations
• Cultivate donors by producing specialized correspondences, preparing letters of acknowledgment, scheduling and attending in-person visits
• Establish a Planned Giving Society to encourage others to make planned gifts

• Actively engage and maintain ongoing communication with prospective and current donors via phone and in-person meetings
• Develop print marketing collateral related to fundraising in collaboration with our advertising partners
• Supervise most development/public affairs matters, particularly the creation of various communications such as the annual donor report, newsletter, recognition correspondence, as well as general content for website
• Review the organization’s strategic marketing plan, public relations and procedures annually and make changes as necessary

• Research, qualify, and cultivate current and prospective donors
• Develop and implement strategic steps to build relationships that will result in gifts in support of the organization’s priorities
• Capture significant relationship activities, financial projections, and donor information in Network for Good, as it relates to the development portfolio
• Leverage database to research donors and alumni
• Provide regular reporting and analysis on prospective donors and gifts

• Maintain accurate donor giving records
• Ensure timely and accurate report deliveries to funders
• Maintain accurate accounting of all restricted/unrestricted gift income and its sources

Compensation: $70,000 annual salary.