Director of Development & Communications

As Director of Development & Communications at Wenatchee Valley Humane Society (WVHS), you’ll lead the strategies and relationships that generate critical resources, strengthen community support, and help sustain our animal-welfare mission for years to come.

As WVHS’s chief fundraising leader and a member of the Senior Leadership Team, you’ll build a reliable, diversified contributed-revenue program while guiding communications that inspire trust and engagement. You’ll partner closely with the Executive Director, Board of Directors, staff, donors, and community partners to grow support and advance organizational priorities.

• Lead annual and multi-year fundraising strategies across individual and major gifts, grants, corporate partnerships, recurring and planned giving, digital fundraising, sponsor ships, and events.
• Build and steward meaningful relationships with major donors and prospects, personally leading cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Own development planning, budgeting, revenue forecasting, campaign strategy, and performance reporting, using data to strengthen results and identify opportunities.
• Lead WVHS’s donor technology and fundraising operations, including CRM systems, online giving, payment platforms, email tools, reporting, data quality, and automation.
• Guide integrated communications, brand, social media, and digital strategies that support fundraising, adoptions, education, community trust, and organizational priorities.
• Lead and develop the Development Coordinator and Marketing Coordinator while engaging the Executive Director and Board as effective fundraising partners.

You’re a strategic, relationship-focused fundraising leader who combines big-picture thinking with strong execution. You bring five or more years of progressively responsible nonprofit fundraising experience, including responsibility for revenue goals and development strategy, along with demonstrated success cultivating and soliciting significant individual gifts. You’re comfortable with budgets, forecasts, performance data, donor technology, digital communications, and team leadership. Strong communication, judgment, organization, relationship-management, and project-management skills are essential.

A bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience is required.

• Preferred, but not required: CFRE credential or interest in pursuing certification; experience with Donor Perfect, Constant Contact, Word Press, or comparable platforms; and experience with major-gift or planned-giving programs or community-based nonprofits.

WVHS offers $85,000–$105,000 DOE, medical insurance with an employer HSA contribution option, vision insurance, dental insurance, a retirement plan with employer matching contribution, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

At WVHS, development is more than fundraising—it creates the financial strength and community connections that make lifesaving animal-welfare work possible. You’ll have a meaningful leadership voice, opportunities to strengthen systems and grow a talented team, and the chance to help shape how WVHS engages donors and leads within our community.

This is a full-time, primarily on-site position in Wenatchee, Washington, with regular work in an animal-shelter environment. Regular evening and weekend work is expected, typically for 3–4 events per month, with flexibility encouraged in the weekday schedule to offset those hours. Essential functions may be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.