Development Director

The Fair Food Standards Council; Naples (FL); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid medical, dental, and life insurance

20 days paid vacation

Employer-matched 401(k) plan

Option for unpaid sabbatical

Job summary

The Fair Food Standards Council is seeking a Development Director to lead fundraising efforts for the Fair Food Program during a critical growth phase. This position involves strategic leadership, hands-on fundraising, and collaboration with global colleagues.

Ideal candidates will have at least eight years of fundraising experience, strong interpersonal skills, and a commitment to promoting human rights for low-wage workers. Competitive compensation package includes benefits and potential for remote work.

Qualifications

• Minimum of eight years of professional fundraising experience.
• Strong familiarity with foundations funding U.S. and international projects.
• Ability to work effectively with staff, board members, and volunteers.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead a cohesive fundraising strategy for the Fair Food Program.
• Lead a team in fundraising efforts of the $125 Million campaign.
• Develop relationships with foundations and major donors.

Skills

Fundraising experience

Relationship building

Strong interpersonal skills

Organizational skills

Tools

EveryAction

Asana

Google Drive

Dropbox

Job description

About the Fair Food Program

The Fair Food Program (FFP) stands at the cutting edge of global human rights enforcement, convening workers, growers, and corporate buyers of produce in a unique partnership that guarantees the freedom and dignity of tens of thousands of agricultural workers across the United States, Chile, and South Africa. The FFP is recognized as the only proven solution to eliminate and prevent modern‑day slavery and other extreme abuses in agriculture. The FFP has been lauded by the United Nations as an “international benchmark” in the fight against modern‑day slavery, and “the best workplace‑monitoring program” in the US, according to the New York Times.

The FFP is a human rights enforcement initiative based on a foundation of legally binding agreements won by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers with some of the world’s largest food retailers, including Walmart, Whole Foods, and McDonald’s, that agree to source preferentially from participating farms and cease purchases from farms that are suspended from the program for zero tolerance abuses, such as forced labor, child labor, or failure to remediate other egregious violations. The program is monitored by the Fair Food Standards Council (FFSC). These companies also pay a small premium for their produce which workers receive as a bonus in their paychecks.

The program’s worker‑generated Code of Conduct contains comprehensive protections against wage theft, violence, harassment, and discrimination, in addition to strong protections for worker health and safety, including groundbreaking heat stress protections that guarantee the provision of rest breaks, water, electrolytes, and more.

Forged through a groundbreaking consumer‑based campaign, the FFP created the blueprint of a novel means to secure workers’ fundamental human rights, known as Worker‑driven Social Responsibility (WSR). As of 2026, WSR programs protect and empower millions of workers across the world, who have been inspired by, and adapted the program to their workplaces – from the garment sectors in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Lesotho, to the dairy industry in Vermont, construction in Minnesota, and beyond.

Fair Food Program is now on the verge of far greater global expansion. Demand for the program’s WSR model is surging from millions more workers in many countries and industries, including in India’s sugarcane fields, Ecuador’s banana plantations, Spain’s tomato greenhouses, in addition to workers across U.S. agriculture, including Florida’s plant nurseries. The FFP must scale up in order to meet that demand, and has therefore launched a $125M Comprehensive 5‑year Fundraising Campaign.

About the Opportunity

The Development Director at the Fair Food Program will lead the fundraising efforts for this exciting period of growth, while still maintaining and stewarding the ongoing fundraising program. Therefore, the Fair Food Program seeks a proactive, creatively minded individual who thrives in a dynamic and diverse work environment and is motivated to advance the human rights of low‑wage workers.

The position combines strategic leadership with hands‑on fundraising and close collaboration with organizational leadership. This position will work closely with colleagues who are located throughout the U.S. and globally. As the Development Director of FFP, this position is responsible for generating funding for CIW and FFSC, separate non‑profit entities that work collaboratively to implement the Fair Food Program.

Location

Naples or comparable Florida location preferable. Remote work possible on the condition of frequent travel and prolonged stays for meetings with donors and potential donors.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience. Benefits include employer‑paid medical, dental, and life insurance; 20 days of paid vacation and five days of paid sick time; parental leave policies; an employer‑matched 401(k) plan; all federal holidays; organization‑wide break the week between Christmas and New Years; and an optional two‑month unpaid sabbatical once every three years.

Responsibilities

Working closely with the leadership of CIW and FFSC, the Development Director will:

• Design and lead implementation of a broad and cohesive fundraising strategy for the Fair Food Program and support its continued growth and expansion in other industries and geographies
• Lead a team in fundraising efforts of the $125 Million Comprehensive 5‑Year Capital Campaign
• Develop, strengthen, and expand relationships with foundations and major individual and institutional donors in the United States and internationally, including cultivation and solicitation, while supporting Sustainer donor engagement
• Identify and pursue new funding opportunities aligned with program priorities and geographic expansion
• Track fundraising activity, maintain donor pipelines, and provide regular updates on progress and priorities
• Develop foundation grant proposals and comply with reporting requirements for the CIW and FFSC, in collaboration with the Grants Manager
• Represent the Fair Food Program in donor meetings, conferences, and relevant fundraising events
• Track relevant conferences and events that can further FFP’s fundraising strategies and connect the organization to untapped potential funders
• Communicate fundraising goals throughout the organization and train FFP staff to reach them
• Design and build upon existing fundraising materials, including donor presentations and pitch decks
• Support internal coordination around fundraising goals and donor engagement

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of eight years of professional fundraising experience, including foundation and major donor development
• Demonstrated ability to grow philanthropic revenue and advance organizational funding priorities
• Experience developing and executing fundraising strategies or plans for a program or organization, including supervising and coordinating a team
• Commitment to the mission of the Fair Food Program and willingness to learn and become conversant in the history, content, and impact of the FFP and the CIW
• Experience identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major gifts from individuals and foundations
• Strong familiarity with, and demonstrable connections to, foundations and philanthropies funding both U.S.‑based and international projects focused on workers and human rights
• Strong interpersonal and writing skills
• Ability to work effectively with and motivate staff, board members, and volunteers to advance fundraising goals
• Willingness to travel and build and sustain donor relationships in major cities
• Self‑directed approach with the ability to initiate donor outreach and fundraising conversations
• High level of organization and capacity to follow through on tasks and goals
• Experience using donor management and reporting systems to track activity, pipelines, and progress
• Experience with CRMs, including EveryAction; task‑management software such as Asana; and file‑sharing platforms such as Google Drive and Dropbox
• Experience with human rights, worker rights, or economic justice organizations