Director, Fundraising ​/ Charity, Non-Profit & Social Impact

The Latino Center of the Midlands (LCM) seeks a relationship-driven and highly organized Director of Advancement to lead the organization’s fundraising efforts and help diversify contributed revenue. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the newly created Director of Advancement will be responsible for building and managing LCM’s individual giving program, coordinating fundraising operations, strengthening donor engagement, leading major gift cultivation, and overseeing Advancement communications and events.

This position will play a central role in advancing LCM’s mission by developing the systems, relationships, and strategies necessary to support long-term philanthropic growth. The Director of Advancement will work closely with staff, board members, consultants, donors, and community partners to expand LCM’s base of support and build a sustainable culture of philanthropy.

• Relationship-oriented and community-minded
• Entrepreneurial and proactive
• Detail-oriented and organized
• Comfortable working collaboratively across departments
• Curious and eager to learn fundraising best practices
• Passionate about strengthening Latino communities and advancing opportunity for all

• Lead the implementation and growth of LCM’s individual giving program.
• Launch and manage donor cultivation and patron engagement initiatives, including The Green Circle
• giving program.
• Develop and execute annual fundraising campaigns and appeals, leading team members who contribute expertise in print and digital communications.
• Coordinate donor stewardship and recognition activities.
• Build and manage donor engagement strategies designed to expand LCM’s community of supporters.
• Develop donor journeys that move supporters from initial engagement to deeper levels of investment.
• Track donor engagement and giving trends to inform fundraising strategy in the organization’s CRM.

• Partner with the CEO to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift prospects.
• Develop prospect profiles, cultivation plans, and donor strategies.
• Coordinate donor meetings, follow-up, and stewardship activities.
• Support campaign, leadership, and board giving initiatives as appropriate.
• Maintain an active donor pipeline and prospect tracking system.

• Serve as the primary administrator of LCM’s donor database (Little Green Light).
• Support database optimization engagement with StreamlineIQ.
• Ensure data integrity, gift tracking, reporting accuracy, and donor record management.
• Develop and maintain fundraising systems, protocols, and standard operating procedures.
• Implement donor segmentation and move management practices.
• Produce regular fundraising reports and dashboard metrics for leadership and the board.

• Serve as the primary internal liaison to external grant-writing consultants.
• Lead cultivation and in-person institutional donor communications, when possible, to support grants revenue.
• Working with program staff, gathering programmatic and organizational information needed to support grant applications and reports.
• Maintain institutional donor records and funding histories.
• Work with leadership and program staff to identify institutional funding opportunities.
• Cultivate and expand relationships with corporate and business sponsors while developing and implementing an annual strategy for sponsorship solicitation, engagement, and stewardship.

• Partner with communications staff to develop donor-focused communications and fundraising materials.
• Collaborate on annual appeals, donor newsletters, impact reports, stewardship…