Posting Date: 10/26/2020
Organization: Women's Resource Center
City Position is Located: Grand Rapids
Position Description (include how to apply):
The Development Director is responsible for generating and sustaining multiple revenue streams, empowering the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) to achieve our mission, and maximize our impact in the community. This dynamic professional collaborates to successfully develop and implement the WRC advancement strategy and designs and implements branding and marketing plans.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Assist donors in accomplishing their philanthropic goals and ambitions through a relationship with WRC.
- Meet regularly with donors to secure and increase contributions.
- Lead and manage the annual fund and/or capital campaign efforts of the organization.
- Generate fresh and innovative ideas to increase revenue and donor loyalty.
- Identify prospective individual and corporate donors, seeking to cultivate relationships and WRC partners to advance the mission.
- Establish processes and practices that ensure deep, long-term, satisfying donor relationships.
- Make regular public appearances and accept speaking engagements on behalf of WRC.
- Collaborate with Staff and Board to develop and successfully execute the annual fund development plan.
- Lead the planning and execution of 2-3 fundraising events per year.
- Grow WRC’s monthly giving program.
- Recruit, train, and support key volunteers to assist in advancement efforts.
- Manage systems and software (Donorperfect) to track (including data entry), cultivate, and regularly communicate with donors and prospective donors.
- Ensure the accurate and timely delivery of meaningful reports and analytics.
- Support other initiatives, strategies and duties as assigned by the CEO.
QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE NECESSARY TO SUCCEED
Required
- 5 years of experience in non-profit development.
- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree.
- Proven track record of achieving revenue goals.
- Experience leading Annual Fund Campaigns and/or Capital Campaigns
- Demonstrated ability as both collaborator and self-starter who crafts creative solutions to funding and marketing challenges, including analysis of systems and data.
- Ability to work independently with an attitude of healthy interdependence on others.
- Active listener who uses the input of staff, Board, and participants, to improve strategies and outcomes.
- Ability to empathize with, be sensitive to, and interact positively and appropriately with constituents from a wide diversity of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds.
- A compelling writer and persuasive public speaker, who is convinced that building community across barriers of the socioeconomic class is key to resolving poverty and increasing opportunity for women.
- Strongly networked in greater Grand Rapids with organizations and individuals having support potential.
- An engaging, conscientious, problem-solving “people person” with the ability to clearly convey WRC’s unique gender-focused mission, and how it fits with donors’ philanthropic and civic supported goals.
- Highly skilled in online marketing strategies and social media.
- Ability to see the big picture with an eye for detail and timely follow-through.
Preferred
- Bilingual, Spanish
- Experience and success in grant writing
- Basic understanding of the systemic components of poverty
Please send resume and cover letter to resumes@grwrc.org by Monday, November 9, 2020.
Posting Date: 10/26/2020
Organization: Crim Fitness Foundation
City Position is Located: Flint
Position Description (include how to apply):
The Crim Fitness Foundation is seeking a Community School Director (two positions available) to lead and manage school-based Community Education Initiative (CEI) programming in our partner schools.
Do you possess these key skills and/or have experience in these areas:
- Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with school leaders, volunteers, parents, students
- Managing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Building consensus and participation
- Are you passionate about our community and about our kids and about coordinating and delivering high-quality programs and services? If you are, you may be just the person we're looking for!
Please visit www.crim.org/employment if you are interested in helping us 'be the change we want to see in the world' for a position description and send your cover letter, three professional references, and resume to laguirre@crim.org by 9:00 am on Friday, November 13, 2020. Compensation for this position starts at $60,000, with a full package of employer-paid benefits, including health, life, short/long-term, vision, and dental insurances and an employer-matched 403b.
Posting Date: 10/26/2020
Organization: Detroit Public Television
City Position is Located: Wixom
Position Description (include how to apply):
Detroit Public TV is seeking a Senior Major Gifts Officer. The Senior Major Gifts Officer at DPTV and WRCJ 90.9FM are responsible for raising funds and planned gifts from major and leadership donors ($1,000+ and $10,000+) to support DPTV AND WRCJ-FM’s mission and operations.
Essential Functions
- Develop relationships with a portfolio of approximately 150-200 major donors, including existing and newly developed donors.
- Qualify and tier donors in the portfolio on a semi-annual basis and as new donors self-identify.
- Develop individual, monthly cash-flowed plans for each donor in the MGO’s portfolio, utilizing the Moves Management process and internal resources (staff, board, programming, marketing, etc.) as appropriate to grow donors over time.
- Participate by learning about programming, obtaining needed information from the organization, and turning around donor communications to meet the needs of individual donor plans.
- Conduct one-on-one visits to qualify, cultivate, and solicit donors to increase giving.
- Achieve annual fundraising goal and assisting in meeting unit goals
- Document and record all activities in Salesforce CRM.
- Demonstrate a passion for the importance, urgency, exclusivity, and power of public media to improve lives, and a desire to work in a trusted organization that serves the educational, cultural, and informational needs of the community.
- Other duties as assigned.
Please submit resumes to humanresources@dptv.org.
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