Development and Community Engagement Manager

Position Title: Development and Community Engagement Manager

Reports to: Executive Director

Primary

Location:

Osage Beach and St. Robert, Missouri

Classification: Full-Time Exempt

Kids’ Harbor, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 child advocacy center serving 10 counties and the Fort Leonard Wood Military Installation in southwest and central Missouri for over 20 years. Our mission is to provide coordinated response, healing, and prevention of child abuse.

This is a full-time position working with a non-profit organization serving child victims of all types of abuse, neglect, drug endangerment, and witnesses to violence. This position will report directly to the Executive Director. The Development and Community Engagement Manager serves as a key leadership team member and an active participant in making strategic decisions affecting Kids’ Harbor, Inc. The primary function of the Development and Community Engagement Manager is to develop processes, strategies, and programs to identify, cultivate, track, and solicit individual, corporate, foundation, and government funding sources.

Strategic Planning:

• In conjunction with the Executive Director, set ambitious and attainable goals specifically aimed at cultivating and soliciting donors, donations, sponsor ships, and event attendance
• Create and implement an annual funding plan that includes budget overview, strategies, and processes to meet goals
• Understands the financial landscape of Kids’ Harbor, including short-term and long-term needs, and adapts development plans and strategies as needed
• Oversee the coordination of community outreach efforts through networking, collaborative partnerships, media exposure, and other opportunities that connect Kids’ Harbor to the broader community
• Report to the Executive Director on the progress and effectiveness of development initiatives and generate regular reports that clearly and concisely communicate progress and results

Donor Cultivation and Management:

• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and build relationships with individual and corporate donors and foundations through market research, donor calls, prospect calls, and agency referrals
• Implement strategies defined in the funding plan and recommend additional strategies to develop prospect relationships to increase the donor base
• Meet with agency leadership to further strengthen the agency’s major foundation partnerships
• Cultivate and nurture relationships with current and potential corporate and foundation sponsors and individual donors
• Plan, manage, and direct activities to ensure they meet donor cultivation and management behavior and funding goals
• Report to the Executive Director on the monthly progress of the development plan
• Assist with design and distribution of agency promotional materials, donor recognition, and other agency correspondence

Fundraising/Event Management:

• Manage and implement annual development plan and strategy
• Ensure organization of all Kids’ Harbor special events are completed and within established budget
• Lead marketing plan for events to ensure profitability, securing appropriate sponsor ships and attendance with support of the Executive Director and agency leadership team
• Provide pre- and post-event guidance, including planning, timelines, and analysis

Database and Records Management:

• Supervise and coordinate activities of the Development Department engaged in maintaining the donor database and paper records of contributors and grants
• Maintain security and quality controls to ensure confidentiality and accurate accounting of information, including an accurate accounting of all unrestricted and restricted income and source
• Oversight of donor gift processing, acknowledgments, tax credits, and tax receipts processes
• Interface with the Executive Director, Bookkeeper, and Contracted Grant Writer to fulfill information requests and maintain reporting accuracy
• Monitor all donor information and provide statistical analysis to the Executive Director

• Oversee the intake of data and contributions to ensure that proper information capture and donor recognition occurs

Other Duties:

• Develop, create goals and objectives, and manage a comprehensive…