Development Director

The Posse Foundation; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

The Posse Foundation in San Francisco seeks a Development Director to drive the local fundraising strategy and revenue goals. You will collaborate with the site director and national team to plan, cultivate donors, and supervise grant writing and reporting.

Responsibilities include building annual plans, soliciting corporate and foundation support, writing proposals, and coordinating events. Strong communication, independence, and team collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Seven years minimum of work experience as a development professional.
• Strong written and verbal communications skills, including grant writing.
• Proficient in Word, Excel and fundraising databases.
• Ability to meet deadlines, multitask, and manage details.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Responsibilities

• Develop annual development plan and raise a budget of about $2 million.
• Develop a pipeline of prospects and arrange meetings with site director.
• Cultivate relationships with corporate, foundation staff and donors.
• Maintain portfolios of fundraising prospects and donors.
• Assist with advisory board meetings and related activities.
• Write grants, reports and budgets; compose thank you letters.

Skills

Grant writing

Written & verbal communication

Public speaking

Deadline management

Independent & team work

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Word

Excel

Fundraising database

Job description

Job Details

Job Location: Posse Bay Area - San Francisco, CA 94104

Position Type: Full Time

Education Level: 4 Year Degree

Salary Range: $80,000.00 - $100,000.00

Salary/year

The Development Director is an essential part of the Posse Bay Area development effort. The Development Director is responsible for working with the site director and development officer/associate along with Posse’s national development team to meet annual revenue goals. The Development Director, in coordination with the site director and national development team will plan, manage, and coordinate the site’s development efforts including building new strategies for expanded funding, identifying, cultivating and soliciting donors and overseeing and at times collaborating with the development officer/associate on writing proposals and reports with accompanying budgets, thank you letters and other correspondence, planning events, soliciting corporate donations for events, and ensuring all necessary documents for grants management and audit purposes are properly filed.

Responsibilities

• Work with site director and development officer/associate to create and implement annual development plan and strategy to raise an annual budget of approximately $2million.
• Develop a pipeline of prospects for cultivation and solicitation and arrange meetings for site director and self with prospects.
• Cultivate and steward relationships with select corporate & foundation staff, and individual donors.
• Maintain portfolios of fundraising prospects and donors.
• Assist site director with advisory board meetings and other related activities.

Other responsibilities include

• Write grant proposals, reports and budgets with development officer/associateor on own.
• Compose thank you letters and other correspondence of own and at times for site director.
• Working as a team with the site director, development officer/associate, and national development team to plan fundraising events and develop strategy for soliciting corporate donations for events.
• Ensure site is properly filing all required documents for grants management and audit purposes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Seven years minimum of work experience as a development professional
• Motivated and able to work independently as well as with a team
• Willingness to take initiative
• Ability to meet deadlines and multi-task, manage concurrent processes/projects, and focus on the small but important details in all projects while keeping the bigger picture in mind
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including grant writing
• Excellent office and computer skills.
• Proficient in Word, Excel and experience working with a fundraising database
• Able to establish and maintain cooperative professional relationships with colleagues, donors, volunteers and the public
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills

Demonstrated belief in Posse’s mission and values