Vice President of Community and Development

Vice President of Community and Development

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Women Donors Network (WDN) is a national network of women donors (cis and trans), nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals committed to protecting and advancing gender, racial, economic, and climate justice. As a growing multiracial and multigenerational community of donor organizers, we connect, grow, fund, and mobilize together in solidarity with movements to transform people, culture, and systems rooted in justice. Through WDN Action, our c4 affiliate organization, we work to transform policies, political infrastructure, and political possibilities by investing in advocacy and electoral strategies that center the leadership of historically excluded communities.

Together, we envision a just and sustainable world where everyone can safely and freely determine their own futures.

The Vice President of Community and Development is a senior leader responsible for driving WDN and WDN Action's fundraising strategy, vision for membership growth (individual and institutional), donor stewardship, and community-building. This role requires a leader who is both a bold strategic fundraiser and a deeply relational donor steward who easily builds trust, understands donor psychology, and inspires transformational giving rooted in justice.

The Vice President will lead the full membership lifecycle; cultivate and retain a multiracial, multigenerational community of donor-activists; lead a high-performing team; and serve as a trusted partner to the President & CEO and Management Team. The ideal candidate has a strong track record in major gifts, donor organizing, member engagement, revenue growth, and cross‑functional leadership. They are emotionally intelligent, movement‑aligned, and energized by building a culture of bold, relational fundraising.

Remote role; requires regular travel across the United States for meetings, member visits, team retreats and organizational events. Candidates must be able to work weekday hours across US time zones, be available to work a flexible schedule due to the emergent, rapid‑response nature of our work, and have previously demonstrated success and comfort with remote work. We are open to individual candidates (no agencies) who are based in the United States and who have at least 10+ years of nonprofit fundraising experience.

• Lead a comprehensive fundraising strategy with annual giving, multi‑year pledges, major gifts, legacy giving, rapid response, and collaborative funding partnerships in alignment with WDN/A's financial model and long‑term revenue goals.
• Cultivate, solicit, steward, and personally close major gifts (including six and seven figure commitments), maintaining a personal portfolio of members.
• Build and sustain a bold, joyful, relational fundraising culture that frames fundraising as mission‑aligned work and strengthens confidence across staff, our Boards, and members.
• Develop and implement moves‑management systems that deepen donor relationships, strengthen retention, and support meaningful, personalized stewardship for individual and institutional members.
• Lead WDN/A's member community growth strategy with strategic efforts to double our growth of individual and institutional members.
• Serve as primary staff lead on our two Boards' Fundraising Committees, which often meet jointly, and provide leadership, guidance, and tools to help board members successfully meet their fundraising goals.
• Provide strategic fundraising partnership to incubated initiatives (one of our grantmaking vehicles), ensuring they are effectively positioned for donor engagement within WDN/A's broader revenue strategy.
• Collaborate closely with the Communications Team to shape, maintain, and update donor and member‑facing materials and other fundraising tools.
• Partner cross‑functionally with other stakeholder teams (Communications, Learning & Impact, Politics & Advocacy, and Finance) to ensure aligned messaging, narrative cohesion, and coordinated donor engagement.

• Lead WDN/A's membership strategy,…