Washington Development Director

Working Washington seeks a strategic, collaborative, and values-driven Development Director to power the next chapter of worker organizing and movement building across Washington State. This is a rare opportunity for an experienced fundraising leader who is energized by building organizations through growth, and motivated by the opportunity to fuel a growing multiracial workers movement where everyone shares in the prosperity we create together.

The Development Director will be a key member of the senior leadership team during a pivotal moment of organizational evolution. You will leverage this opportunity for growth, developing fundraising strategy across the organization’s integrated 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) organizations. Partnering closely with a visionary Executive Director and overseeing experienced development and operations staff, you’ll lead strategy to diversify revenue, grow individual and major giving, and build the systems and organizational capacity to realize greater impact.

This is an exceptional moment to join the organization. After more than a decade of transformative organizing victories, Working Washington is intentionally evolving as a leader in building sustained worker power. Now the organization is investing in the fundraising leadership needed to match its ambitions. For a leader who enjoys cultivating meaningful relationships, building sustainable fundraising programs, and helping shape an organization’s next chapter of growth and impact, this is an opportunity to make a lasting contribution to the future of worker power in Washington State.

Worker power changes everything.

Working Washington is building worker power and winning the fight against wealthy corporations. We are the statewide organizing home for the multiracial workers movement growing across all sectors. We are clear-eyed about the need to build the collective leadership of workers to shift power imbalances. We organize workers to transform working conditions, challenge corporate influence, and change the local and national conversation about wealth, inequality, and what workers deserve.

• Our work is guided by a clear theory of change: We organize a multiracial base of workers across Washington so we can win bold campaigns that build worker power and challenge corporate influence, because workers taking collective action is necessary to transform working conditions, the public narrative about the value of work, and our political and economic systems.

• We are committed to building and defending a thriving multiracial democracy where we have the power to govern, advance our agenda, and win at the scale workers deserve.

• Our integrated power-building model weaves together organizing, issue advocacy, legal strategies, and strategic narrative to challenge entrenched power imbalances.

Working Washington was founded in 2011 and helped spark a national movement by winning the Fight for $15 in Seattle and Sea Tac. Since then, workers organizing through Working Washington have won groundbreaking campaigns that have best-in-the-nation labor protections for historically excluded workers. As we celebrate our 15th anniversary, we are setting our sights on winning the next set of transformational victories with workers leading the fight.

We advance our mission through integrated power-building entities. Together, Working Washington, our 501(c)(4) organization, and Fair Work Center, our 501(c)(3), drive our organizing, narrative, and enforcement programs forward. With a combined budget of $3.3 million and a talented team of 16 staff, the organizations operate as one integrated movement building worker power across Washington State.

As Development Director, you will serve as a strategic partner to the Executive Director and the senior leadership team, leading the evolution of a development program that supports both impressive wins and the long-term investments required to build lasting worker power statewide.

Leading Fundraising Strategy & Planning:
You’ll lead the organization’s overall development strategy, shaping fundraising priorities and building out long-term plans…