Development Director

We are seeking a relationship-driven fundraiser with strong strategic thinking, major-gift experience, and a deep commitment to equity and belonging to support Maybelle Center’s mission and long-term sustainability.

As the Development Director, you would be responsible for designing and implementing annual and multi-year fundraising strategies. The role includes a significant hands-on fundraising portfolio, with direct responsibility for major gift cultivation and solicitation, donor stewardship, and new donor acquisition. The ideal candidate would have a strong organizational skill set to build, maintain, and refine the systems that make this work effective and sustainable.

This role supervises the Development Coordinator and contract grant writer and collaborates as an integrated partner with communications, finance, and program teams to design and execute fundraising initiatives that are well coordinated, data-informed, and aligned with organizational priorities.

Everything we do at Maybelle Center is rooted in our core values:
1) Every person matters;
2) We are all interconnected; and
3) We learn together. Central to this role is the ability to engage external stakeholders as partners in our work—inviting them to be more than donors, but advocates and champions for a Portland where everyone belongs—while also demonstrating strong follow-through and operational discipline to steward those relationships with care and consistency.

This is a full-time, exempt position with the flexibility to work remotely up to 2 days/week. (Hybrid schedule permitted up to 40%)

• Craft and implement an annual and multi-year development strategy and budget focused on continued growth in contributed revenue.
• Steward, retain, and cultivate existing relationships as well as identify and pursue new revenue opportunities including individuals, corporate partners, foundations, and government funding.
• Personally cultivate, solicit, steward, and monitor a portfolio of major donors and donor prospects.
• Support board members and Executive Director in the identification, cultivation, and solicitation of gifts.
• Manage and track prospects, including identification, stewardship and cultivation, and solicitation, across all levels of fundraising (i.e., annual funding, planned giving, capital support, events, grants, etc.), utilizing Salesforce NPSP to maximize effectiveness.
• In conjunction with the contract grant writer, develop grant strategy, and oversee the timely submission of grant proposals, reporting, and the management of foundation relations.
• Work with Communications team to achieve revenue and attendance targets for annual fundraising and cultivation events.
• Collaborate with Development Coordinator in utilizing systems for prospect research, managing gift acknowledgments, gift records and reporting, and direct mail that supports annual and long-term fundraising objectives.
• Ensure close coordination between development, communications, program, and finance departments.
• Represent the organization to businesses, professional groups, religious, and other organizations.

• Responsible for leading all aspects of the day-to-day operation of the development program.
• Supervise Development Coordinator, contract grant writer, and other development-related contractors.
• Serve as a member of the leadership team and collaborate with other Directors to identify funding priorities and set fundraising targets in alignment with organizational mission, goals, and strategic priorities.
• Review and share monthly status reports with the Executive Director and leadership team, along with quarterly reports to the board of directors.
• Work collaboratively with the Finance Department to ensure…