Development Director

Benefits

• Wellness resources
• Employee discounts
• Paid time off
• Bonus based on performance
• Flexible schedule

Part-Time (0.75 FTE, ~30 hours/week) | Hybrid — Fort Collins, Colorado | $48,000-$62,000 annually, based on experience, qualifications, demonstrated fundraising success, and performance.

Healing Warriors Program is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to lead our individual giving, corporate partnership, sponsorship, and donor stewardship efforts throughout Northern Colorado.

This is first and foremost a development and fundraising role
. Success in this position will be measured by your ability to build meaningful donor relationships and generate philanthropic support that sustains and expands Healing Warriors Program's mission of providing no-cost, non-narcotic care to veterans and their families.

You will work directly with the Executive Director and Board of Directors to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors, corporate partners, foundations, and community supporters. The Development Director is responsible for managing the fundraising pipeline from initial relationship-building through gift solicitation, stewardship, and long-term retention.

This is an active, externally facing position that requires confidence in meeting with prospective donors, making fundraising asks, securing sponsor ships, and developing strategic partnerships. While community engagement is an important component of the role, the primary focus is generating sustainable revenue through philanthropy and donor development.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record in fundraising, donor relations, business development, sales, or a similar relationship-based revenue-generating role. They are comfortable discussing financial support, building donor trust, and translating community goodwill into meaningful financial investment in our mission.

This is a hybrid position with flexibility for remote work, balanced with regular in-person meetings, donor visits, community events, and organizational activities throughout Northern Colorado.

We are a small, mission-driven organization where initiative, accountability, and results matter. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to make a direct and measurable impact on both organizational growth and the lives of veterans and their families.

• Lead fundraising relationships. Build, manage, solicit, and steward a pipeline of individual donors, major gift prospects, corporate sponsors, foundations, and community partners, with personal accountability for annual fundraising goals established with the Executive Director.
• Grow partnerships. Identify and cultivate business, civic, healthcare, and veteran-community partnerships that generate sponsor ships, workplace giving, third-party events, and referral relationships.
• Drive event sponsorship and fundraising. Secure sponsor ships, underwriting, auction contributions, and fundraising revenue for Healing Warriors signature events, including the annual Swing4
  
  Vets Golf Tournament and future fundraising initiatives. Support near-term events already on the calendar from day one.
• Serve as a community ambassador. Represent Healing Warriors Program at donor meetings, community events, veteran service organization meetings, Stand Downs, and partner functions; deliver presentations that convert awareness into philanthropic support.
• Cultivate major gifts. Develop and execute strategies to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major donors capable of making transformational investments in Healing Warriors Program.
• Steward every gift. Design and execute donor stewardship that retains and upgrades supporters: timely acknowledgment, impact reporting, and personal touchpoints.
• Run a disciplined pipeline. Maintain accurate, current records of all contacts, asks, and gifts in our CRM; report pipeline and results to the Executive Director weekly and to the Board monthly.
• Collaborate. Partner with the Executive Director on messaging, campaigns, and events, and with the finance team on revenue tracking and gift documentation.

• First 90 days: A qualified pipeline of individual and corporate prospects is documented in the CRM, stewardship of existing donors is current, and at least three new partnership conversations are in progress. The introductory period includes a specific revenue expectation, established together at hire.
• First Year: Annual fundraising goals are met or exceeded through a combination of individual giving, corporate sponsor ships, grants, and special events; donor retention improves measurably; new donor acquisition demonstrates growth; and Healing Warriors maintains a strong and visible presence throughout Northern Colorado.

• Three or more years of demonstrated success in nonprofit fundraising, business development, major gifts, sponsorship sales, or revenue-generating relationship management, with examples of measurable fundraising or revenue outcomes.
• Experience…