Senior Director of Development

m/Oppenheim is assisting Parents Helping Parents in the search for an accomplished nonprofit fundraiser to serve as Sr. Director of Development to diversify revenue, nurture strategic fundraising partnerships, assure long-term financial sustainability, and help grow the organization’s financial capacity in order to innovate and continue delivering services to families in need of support.

The Sr. Director of Development provides support to the Executive Director and Board on all fundraising matters and works in collaboration across PHP with the staff, Board, partners, and community members to involve everyone in the effort to increase contributed income.

Responsibilities include shaping and driving a multi-year fundraising strategy that includes major gifts; annual fund; legacy giving; government, corporate, and foundation support; special events; planning & budgeting; targeting and direct fundraising solicitations; messaging, communications, and public relations related to fundraising activities; and friend-raising events that build funding and other types of in-kind philanthropic support for PHP.

Emphasis will be placed on the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of new philanthropic supporters and deepening the interest of existing donors. The Sr. Director of Development will be a hands-on, fearless, energetic fundraiser who will spend time in the community developing strategically important relationships and carry a portfolio of key donors. The primary metric will be the extent to which contributed revenue is maximized.

The Sr. Director of Development will serve as a PHP spokesperson and representative to grow the organization’s visibility and advance its reputation among donors of various types.

In the first six months the priorities for the Sr. Director of Development are to:

• Thoroughly understand PHP - its culture, history, strategic vision, programs, personalities, constituencies, and base of financial support.
• Immediately assess the current status of ongoing fundraising efforts and provide support for those efforts as needed; assume a hands-on leadership role in the identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major gifts, foundation, and corporate funders.
• Create and operationalize a development strategy that identifies possible easy wins for the short-term, opportunities for the medium-term, and aspirations for the long-term. This might include donor segmentation according to capacity or interest, objectives for individual and institutional fundraising and success metrics, identification of Board members who will be actively involved in fundraising, and definition of roles, targets, fundraising goals, and metrics.

On an ongoing basis, the Sr. Director of Development will be responsible for:

• Managing, inspiring, and developing a creative, focused, and high-performing Development and Marketing team; continuing to foster an environment of transparency, collaboration, and good communication; providing coaching, goal setting, and performance evaluation to ensure individual and team success, fostering collaboration, innovation, and professional growth; reviewing the current Development operating environment to ensure the team has the tools to do their best work;
  
  supporting the team to implement effective decision-making and problem-solving strategies.
• Managing and personally engaging in solicitation and stewardship activities in collaboration with the Executive Director and other members of the staff and Board; providing training and support to individuals with a range of fundraising skills and abilities.
• Identifying philanthropic investors whose interests may align to PHP and segmenting donors according to capacity; identifying…