Strategic Development Director

Job Summary:

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Stoneham & Wakefield is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Chief Advancement Officer to lead its Development team. This is an excellent opportunity for a goal-driven leader who can promote mission-driven work to prospects and donors, coach and develop team members, deliver exceptional stewardship/customer service, and understand the importance of a strong fundraising infrastructure, policies, and database.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and manage a high-performing Development team to focus on Development operations, events, corporate and foundation support, and expanding portfolios to include new cities and towns of B&GC operation.
• Create an annual Development plan with input from the CEO to define key funding priorities, goals, and metrics.
• Develop policies and procedures to guide the development team in all aspects of fundraising, including donor cultivation, stewardship, gift receipt/acknowledgement, and event logistics.
• Carry a major gift donor portfolio and implement strategies to cultivate and steward these donors towards larger gifts.
• Build out a formal corporate giving program that actively pursues, tracks, and manages prospects, and offers high-quality customer service to businesses and business leaders that become donors/sponsors.
• Oversee individual fundraising, including annual fund and major gifts.
• Build positive, productive, and collaborative relationships with board members, especially the Board Development Committee, through board cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship; connecting with high-net-worth individuals; and equipping them with current stats and stories.
• Coalesce all prospects and donors into a concrete, actionable pipeline with associated goals and metrics to track progress.
• Implement and optimize use of the donor database for prospect management and tracking, gift and contact report entry, dashboards, and more.

About the Organization:

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Stoneham & Wakefield is a thriving, rapidly expanding organization that seeks a dynamic, organized, and strategic leader to manage and maintain great relationships within a growing Development team, an engaged board of directors, our CEO, CPO, CEAO, and a growing portfolio of major gift, annual, and foundation/corporate donors.