Development Director, San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco

Development Director

Organization: San Francisco Public Press

Location: San Francisco

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,000 to $82,000

The San Francisco Public Press, a 17-year-old independent nonprofit news organization producing web and audio journalism, seeks a full-time Development Director to work with the Executive Director and a Major Donor and Sponsor ships Manager on the design and execution of a growing, diversified fundraising strategy. We are looking for a high-energy fundraising professional who believes in our public-service journalism mission and shares our desire to improve the lives of people in our region.

The San Francisco Public Press, a 17-year-old independent nonprofit news organization producing web and audio journalism, seeks a full-time Development Director to work with the Executive Director and a Major Donor and Sponsor ships Manager on the design and execution of a growing, diversified fundraising strategy.

This is an opportunity to work with an organization dedicated to publishing and broadcasting reliable, relevant and professionally produced investigative reporting and community journalism for diverse and historically under-served communities in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.

We are looking for a high-energy fundraising professional who believes in our public-service journalism mission and shares our desire to improve the lives of people in our region.

The San Francisco Public Press is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging within our organization, and through our journalism and community engagement. These tenets are fundamental to supporting a culture of trust between our organization and the communities we serve. We hire colleagues who are committed to these values.

We will help the new Development Director get up to speed on the world of nonprofit and mission-driven media via direct training, conferences and industry-specific professional development opportunities. This person will also receive direct support from our part-time Major Donor and Sponsor ships Manager, who has decades of experience and previously held the Development Director position.

Since our founding in 2009, the Public Press has been fortunate to receive funding from such California-based funders as the San Francisco Foundation, the California Endowment and the James Irvine Foundation, as well as national funders, including the Reva & David Logan Foundation, Craig Newmark Philanthropies, the Pulitzer Center, the USC Center for Health Journalism, and the Fund for Investigative Journalism.

We participate in the annual News Match campaign supported by many national funders and run by The Miami Foundation. We have identified several new potential institutional funders and need a Development Director to pursue these opportunities.

Our independent model for journalism has relied on building a broad base of public support through a membership program, with individual donors making up about half of our total revenue.

We are eager to expand our funding base to include more support from individual donors, major donors, local family foundations and donor-advised funds. Our public events, partnerships, newsletters and a nascent sponsorship program contribute to that effort.

We are looking forward to meeting candidates with diverse lived experiences and training.

We are dedicated to working with people with backgrounds that reflect the population of the Bay Area. We are committed to diversity and building an inclusive environment for people of all identities and ages. We encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities.

The San Francisco Public Press is a nonprofit, noncommercial news organization that publishes independent public-interest journalism about under-covered issues, with a focus on underserved communities. Our in-depth, data-driven approach is widely recognized as a model for local investigative and solutions reporting. Coverage areas include housing affordability, public health, transportation safety, homelessness, AI and digital…