What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Development - Baltimore position at Jeremiah Program?
ABOUT JEREMIAH PROGRAM
Jeremiah Program (JP) is a nonprofit organization helping single mothers invest in themselves so they can thrive and take steps towards economic mobility by helping them access higher education, affordable childcare, housing, skills training and career development. JP envisions a world where poverty is no longer feminized; where race is not divorced from gender; where career and financial opportunities are not gentrified; and where women who experience poverty not only hold a seat at the table but hold the mic and curate the agenda.
Jeremiah Program offers one of the nation’s most successful strategies for disrupting poverty, two generations at a time. At JP, we believe that no mother should have to make the untenable choice between investing in herself or supporting her children. Our holistic approach invites single mothers into the leadership tent and encourages families to bring all of their identities to bear in achieving their goals in pursuit of economic mobility.
Founded in 1993, this year JP is supporting over 2,000 moms and kids across nine residential and non-residential campuses: Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Brooklyn, Fargo, Las Vegas, Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Rochester.
POSITION SUMMARY:
JP Baltimore launched in summer 2022. We are building our team and this position will be the first Director of Development. In partnership with the Baltimore Executive Director, the Director of Development is charged with cultivating, navigating, and maintaining the external relationships for fundraising and development needs to support regional growth and programming. The Director of Development is responsible for meeting ambitious stewardship and new donor goals.
These goals are met through best-in-class cultivation and targeted donor stewardship through a diverse portfolio of events, meetings, and campus tours. The Director of Development leads the campus development team, working with all campus leaders to identify needs that may be met through development activities.
ABOUT YOU:
The ideal candidate is a masterful communicator and relationship builder and is a strategic planner and executer. You will bring great interpersonal skills, an ability to work with a significant volume of highly varying data requiring rigor, a strong understanding of data systems, and ability to thrive in a complex organization, one that is newer to project management. Thus, this nascent project management stage provides an opportunity for growth around project management tools and methodology. Most importantly, as Director of Development you will possess a deep commitment to and understanding of systemic change necessary to address current housing, education, early childhood, and other social justice issues intersecting with poverty. You carry an enthusiasm, familiarity and demonstrated alignment with JP’s mission and an interest in deepening your commitment to racial justice. You are dedicated to leveraging economies of scale with a mission-based and donor-centric approach to fundraising.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Development Operations
- Provide leadership to development function at the campus level, partnering with the Executive Director on all fundraising activities and leveraging development and marketing expertise and resources of national Campus Support Team to achieve assigned goals.
- Coordinate grant applications, institutional relationships, site visits and related tracking and reporting.
- Manage strategy and execution of key events in consultation with national team and provide accurate and timely data on event results.
- Embody and adhere to development/fundraising best practices, staying up to date on new approaches that ensure the effectiveness of local development operations.
- Manage donor database at the local level, ensuring integrity of donor and prospects data and compliance with entry standards for portfolios.
- Maximize database functionality by working in close partnership with Campus Support Team to identify new and better ways of using the database.
- Monitor assigned development expense budget and track revenue goals.
Donor and Community Board Management
- Identify individual, corporate and foundation prospects, cultivate donor relationships and oversees all aspects of major gifts operations.
- Oversee key major gifts functions and bodies of work including, but not limited to, high level portfolio management, cultivation, solicitation, acknowledgement, and stewardship process.
- Execute and steward local individual giving strategy to meet assigned targets in ways that fosters long-term donor engagement and investment in the organization.
- Foster active participation at all levels by community board members, ensuring effective roles and functioning.
- Partner with development committee to provide the necessary information and access to meet annual fundraising goals.
- Work with Executive Director to ensure 100% of community board of trustees meet give/get expectations and facilitate commitments and engagements from their networks.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Directly manage 1-2 development team members (not yet part of the team and not planned for 2024).
