Development Director, Baltimore, MD

1 week ago


Washington, Washington, D.C., United States UNCF Full time
About the Role

The Development Director plays a critical role in executing the fundraising strategy and implementing action plans developed with the national office. This includes taking the lead on some campaigns and designing new ones to reach fundraising targets that support the mission of UNCF.

Key Responsibilities
  • Assist the Area Development Director in developing and implementing comprehensive fundraising strategies to meet and exceed fundraising goals.
  • Identify and cultivate relationships with potential donors, sponsors, and grant-making organizations.
  • Cultivate and steward relationships with existing donors, ensuring timely and personalized acknowledgements, updates, and impact reports to sustain and enhance repeated and upgraded gifts.
  • Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including board members, volunteers, and community partners, to support fundraising efforts.
  • Plan and execute fundraising events, including galas, auctions, charity walks, and other campaigns, to generate funds and engage donors.
  • Develop and submit proposals and design and implement special fund-raising events.
  • Establish guidelines and implementation procedures for special events.
  • Conduct thorough research to identify new funding opportunities and stay updated on current trends and practices in nonprofit fundraising.
  • Maintain a donor database and track all fundraising activities, donor communications, and contributions.
  • Write fundraising correspondence, letters of acknowledgment and appeals and maintain a regular schedule of in-person visits with foundations, donors, and board members.
  • Collaborate with the branding, marketing, and communications team to create and distribute fundraising materials and annual reports.
  • Monitor and evaluate fundraising activities, analyzing outcomes, and making recommendations for improvement to maximize effectiveness.
  • Assist in identifying, recruiting, and training volunteers, campaign leaders, Advisory Board members and other needed resources who are representatives of all segments of a given community.
  • Establish and manage relations with volunteers, conducting initial orientation, outlining goals and objectives for each committee.
  • Train and monitor the progress of all volunteer activities, maintaining constant communication, written and oral, on a weekly basis leading to fundraising events.
  • Compile and maintain a volunteer bank consisting of active and new volunteers.
  • Cultivate volunteers and stimulate their involvement by continuous contact throughout the year.
  • Manage and review monthly reports to include donors and prospects, office visits, recaps of meetings, projections, and missing gifts.
  • Generate queries, reports, exports, and other collection data as needed.
  • Assist in managing the area office to ensure compliance with organization policies, procedures, rules, and regulations.
Requirements
  • A bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university and at least 5 years' experience in special events and sponsorship fund-raising.
  • Proficient in O365.
  • Ability to conduct major special event activities focused on unrestricted fund-raising; ability to think critically and communicate clearly; excellent organizational skills; outstanding human relations and managerial aptitude; demonstrated initiative and ability to work and meet deadlines with minimal supervision; exceptional responsiveness and a capability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to travel locally and nationally.


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