DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

Youth For Christ USA Inc.; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Health & Welfare Benefits

Health Coverage

Retirement Savings & Match starting at

Job summary

You will lead the development function for the Youth For Christ USA Inc. chapter, shaping revenue growth by engaging major donors, foundations, and corporate partners. The role collaborates with the Executive Director to translate ministry stories into compelling investment opportunities.

Responsibilities include managing donor portfolios, orchestrating large-scale events, and driving grant-writing pipelines to sustain multiple ministry sites and future expansion.

Qualifications

• BA in Marketing, Communications, Projects or Business or equivalent experience.
• Minimum one-year event experience.
• Minimum one-year development experience.

Responsibilities

• Major Donor Cultivation & Moves Management: cultivate and steward a portfolio of 75–100 major donors ($2,500+ annually).
• Executive Facilitation: assist the Executive Director with high-level donor pitches and proposals.
• Vision Casting: take donors to ministry sites to connect giving with impact.
• Strategic Campaigns & Event Execution: lead annual fundraising banquets and golf tournaments.
• Giving Logistics: design year-end matching campaigns and monthly partner acquisition pushes.
• Corporate Partnerships: develop sponsorship packages for local businesses.
• Foundations, Institutional Grants & Church Alliances: draft proposals to foundations and church partners.
• Shared Infrastructure, Database & Team Alignment: ensure data integrity in Salesforce and pledges tracking.
• Personal Ministry Fund: build a network of prayer and donor partners to support leadership.

Skills

Strong organizational skills

Attention to detail

Multi-tasker

Superior interpersonal skills

Creativity

Strong communication skills

Education

BA in Marketing, Communications, Projects or Business or equivalent experience

Job description

Position Summary
The Director of Development serves as the strategic architect of revenue generation and financial growth for the Youth for Christ (YFC) chapter. Working as the primary executive complement to the Executive Director (who retains spiritual and ministry command), this role translates the local chapter's stories of spiritual transformation into clear, actionable investment opportunities for major donors, corporate partners, foundations, and local churches. The Director of Development oversees all fundraising campaigns, banquet executions, major donor cultivation, and grant writing pipelines to systematically sustain the 10 current ministry sites and fund the strategic multi-site expansion plan.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Major Donor Cultivation & Moves Management (40%)
• Portfolio Stewardship: Identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a personal portfolio of 75–100 major individual financial partners ($2,500+ annually).
• Executive Facilitation: Schedule, prepare, and accompany the Executive Director on high-level donor pitches, matching the ED's raw ministry stories with targeted giving proposals.
• Vision Casting: Regularly escort existing and prospective financial champions onto the field to observe the 10 local ministry sites firsthand, linking donor capital directly to regional spiritual impact.
• Strategic Campaigns & Event Execution (30%)
• Large-Scale Banquets: Serve as the executive project manager for the chapter's annual fundraising banquet and golf tournaments, owning the operational timeline, table-captain recruitment, and financial underwriting metrics.
• Giving Logistics: Design and implement comprehensive year-end matching campaigns, monthly partner acquisition pushes, and peer-to-peer digital giving frameworks.
• Corporate Partnerships: Build business-to-business sponsorship packages that afford local marketplace leaders the opportunity to invest heavily in community youth development infrastructure.
• Foundations, Institutional Grants & Church Alliances (20%)
• Grant Writing: Research, draft, and submit data-grounded funding proposals to private family foundations, community trusts, and corporate philanthropy boards.
• Church Mission Budgets: Partner alongside the Executive Director to pitch local church mission boards, securing predictable, long-term monthly or annual chapter subsidies from corporate church allocations.
• Shared Infrastructure, Database & Team Alignment (10%)
• Data Integrity: Collaborate directly with the Operations Coordinator to audit giving data in Salesforce CRM, ensuring flawless tracking of donor pledges, clean acknowledgment timelines, and giving pattern analysis.
• Personal Ministry Fund: Model sacrificial leadership by cultivating and maintaining a small personal network of prayer and financial partners to subsidize their own leadership presence within the chapter.

Position Requirements

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong organizational skills
• Attention to detail
• Multi-tasker with strong work ethic
• Superior interpersonal skills
• Creativity
• Strong communication skills

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

• BA in Marketing, Communications, Projects or Business or equivalent experience
• Minimum one-year event experience
• Minimum one-year development experience

Fundraising Responsibilities

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC/USA. These activities will include—but are not limited to— extending invitations to fund raising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off Program
• Health & Welfare Benefits
• Health Coverage
• Retirement Savings Program & Matching Contribution starting at 3% after year one

EEO Statement

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role, the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC’s mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person’s religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry.

We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation.

We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.