Deputy Senior Vice President of Development

Rutgers Foundation; United States; Remote; USD 158,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Rutgers Foundation seeks a Deputy Senior Vice President of Development to lead a growing team of 45 skilled professionals in a dynamic fundraising environment. The role demands expertise in management, an understanding of data-driven fundraising strategies, and a commitment to environmental and social equity.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

401(k) retirement plan with matching contribution

Flexible Spending Account

Paid holidays and personal days

Sabbatical and student loan assistance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years experience in managing supervisors in fundraising.
• Experience with development database systems.
• Understanding of and success in union environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead comprehensive fundraising operations and support revenue goals.
• Manage a high-performing team of development professionals.
• Drive partnerships and oversee essential fundraising systems.

Skills

Fundraising

Development systems

Budgeting

Project management

Staff management

Data and analytics

Job description

Title:Deputy Senior Vice President of Development

Department:Development

Status:Exempt

Reports: To:Senior Vice President of Development

Positions Reporting To This Position:Vice President of Development Operations, Vice President of Membership and Direct Response Fundraising, Vice President of Development Marketing and Engagement

Location:United States

Remote Work Eligibility:Yes; Regular Remote Work

Travel Requirements:Up to 15%

Union Position:No

Job Classification Level:M-IV B

Salary Range (depending on qualified experience):$158,000-$215,000

General Description:

The League of Conservation Voters, Inc. (“LCV”), a non-profit organization, builds political power to protect people and the planet. We envision a world in which tackling the climate crisis, confronting environmental injustice, and strengthening our democracy lead to cleaner and healthier communities, good, well-paying jobs, and a more just, equitable, and sustainable planet for all.

For more than 50 years, LCV has fought for solutions to the interconnected threats our environment and democracy face. We do so by working with and holding elected officials accountable, mobilizing, organizing, and building grassroots power in communities, electing candidates who share our values, and partnering with and supporting our 30+ state affiliates across the country.

LCV is seeking a highly skilled expert in development systems and management to join us in our newly created role of Deputy Senior Vice President of Development to provide key strategic leadership for the management, coordination, and continued growth of LCV and LCV Education Fund’s Development department. This senior leader will join our team at a time of important transition for the organization as we welcome a new President and begin to pilot unified fundraising with our state affiliates.

The Deputy Senior Vice President of Development will partner with the Senior Vice President of Development to help lead our growing team of over 45 skilled development professionals in achieving the organization’s revenue goals, increasing income, and educating and engaging more individuals and institutions about the work of LCV and related entities, including LCV Education Fund, LCV Victory Fund, LCV Action Fund, GiveGreen, and the broader Conservation Voter Movement.

The ideal candidate is an experienced fundraising leader, an exceptional manager of leaders and teams, people and systems, has a deep commitment to protecting the environment and democracy and centering racial justice and equity in all aspects of this work.

This position is classified as “Regular Remote Work”, which means the position is not assigned to an office and can work remotely full-time.

This job operates in a professional office or home office environment, and routinely uses standard office equipment including, but not limited to, computers, phones, photocopiers, and audiovisual systems. This position is largely sedentary, often standing or sitting for prolonged periods. The person in this position frequently communicates with internal and external stakeholders using electronic platforms.

Applicants must be located in and legally authorized to work in the United States.

Responsibilities:

• Fundraising - In partnership with the SVP of Development, provide support in planning and directing a comprehensive, complex fundraising operation that includes maintaining and growing annual revenues across the Conservation Voter Movement.

• Staff management - Manage a high-performing team of approximately 20 staff, including directly supervising the Vice President of Development Operations, Vice President of Membership and Direct Response Fundraising, and Vice President of Development Marketing and Engagement; support those managers as their teams continue to grow and evolve.

• Partnerships - Drive excellence in acquisition, cultivation and stewardship of a small and middle donor program in partnership with state based organizations.

• Systems design and oversight - Oversee and strengthen foundational structures, systems and operations for a complex membership and development team, including system change connected to an important pilot to unify fundraising with our state affiliates.

• Budgeting - Create, refine, and drive our systems to ensure we have the tools we need to make informed strategic decisions and share information quickly and accurately in a highly complex system.

• Collaboration - Strengthen a feedback loop between Finance, Legal and other departments to capture on-the-ground insights for compliance, forecasting and performance.

• Drive performance - Lead our department and play a key role in the organizational effort to effectively leverage data and analytics to drive success and assess our progress towards goals.

• Change Management - Play a lead role in the department’s ongoing transformation to a more fully just and inclusive fundraising team, including internal departmental culture and values, expanding the racial, age and geographic representation of the donor base at all levels, and ensuring fundraising strategies that foster inclusion.

• Team culture - Lead and/or support the fostering of a team culture of collaboration, openness, trust, equity, inclusion, and support within the Development department, and in its work with other departments. Help develop and instill a culture of philanthropy throughout LCV, ensuring all staff are activated, feel connected to, and understand their role in the organization’s philanthropic success.

• Travel up to 15% of the time for in-person work, including trainings, staff retreats, meetings, conferences, and professional development opportunities, as needed.

Qualifications:

• Work Experience:Required - Minimum of 12 years experience managing supervisors in a large, complex fundraising operation. Experience overseeing direct marketing and advertising for a non-profit or campaign organization. Preferred - Experience collaborating with state affiliates to support effective fundraising. Understanding of and demonstrated success managing in a union environment.

• Skills:Required -

  • Development, development systems, and budgeting expertise:

    • Nuanced understanding of multiple kinds of fundraising - specifically mail, digital, and events - and the interactions between them.

    • Deep expertise in leveraging fundraising data and analytics to drive results.

    • Strong background in fundraising database systems and processes including seamless integrations with finance systems.

    • Expert-level skills around budgeting and the ability to create or overhaul systems to make them significantly more effective and efficient, including through the complexities of multiple entities.

    • Demonstrated ability to think strategically about investments for the long-term, and to evaluate fundraising impact over multiple years.

    • Background in developing and implementing successful major gifts, grassroots, candidate and electoral fundraising.

  • Staff management:

    • Demonstrated success managing a team of high performing staff to reach ambitious goals, including managing managers and developing leaders.

    • Ability to build strong, trusting relationships with staff and peers, across departments, and across a range of identities.

  • Project management and budgeting:

    • Ability to develop, manage, and drive progress toward an ambitious strategic aim with multiple projects, deadlines, and competing priorities; and to anticipate roadblocks, and to proactively create strategies to mitigate and resolve them.

    • Deep experience in creating long and short term budget projections for a non-profit organization and strong ability to work with other teams and departments to support strategic budgeting.

  • Setting and driving toward ambitious goals:

    • Highly skilled at setting and tracking progress toward fundraising goals, and supporting other staff in setting and tracking progress to their own goals. Experience supporting a team to act on fast-moving decisions and high levels of complexity.

  • Organizational Culture:

    • Strong understanding of the complexity of operating with different organizational entities, the legal restrictions that come with it.

    • Ability to build strong and trusting relationships across a range of identities and across teams internally.

    • Demonstrated ability to foster equity and inclusion on the team and organization, including in our interactions with our teams, across departments, and with external partners, and in the creation and implementation of our development strategy.

    • Ability to meaningfully contribute to discussions and plans for how to improve and deliver on our development team-wide commitment to anti-racist fundraising, including curiosity and dedication to improving our approach within our reality and current context.

• Racial Justice and Equity Competencies:Demonstrated awareness of how one’s life experiences influence one’s personal attitudes, biases, and assumptions. Demonstrated commitment to continual learning and ability to successfully deliver culturally responsive services. Commitment to equity and inclusion as organizational practice and culture. Understands how environmental issues intersect with racism, economic and social inequality in the U.S. and has a passion for working to dismantle these systems.

LCV offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that includes vacation, sick and parental leave, personal days, paid holidays, health insurance (two plan options for staff to choose from), dental and vision insurance, life and disability insurance (short- and long-term), Flexible Spending Account, 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contribution, commuter benefits program, sabbatical, and student loan assistance.

Apply Here: Candidates must apply through our job portal byJune 26, 2025.No phone calls please.

All employment is contingent upon the completion of a background check, employment verifications and reference checks.

LCV is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a racially just, equitable and inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other protected status. LCV is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. If you require reasonable accommodation to participate in the employee selection process, including, completing the application, interviewing, or pre-employment testing,please [e-mail].