Development Manager

CNM; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Jubilee Park & Community Center in Dallas seeks a Development Manager to lead fundraising, grant development, and donor stewardship. You will work with the CAO and Communications & Marketing Manager to grow support for operating and special projects.

Responsibilities include grant drafting, pipeline management, donor communications, and coordinating development committee activities. Flexibility for events and occasional evenings/weekends is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and three years fundraising experience.
• Working knowledge, at minimum, of Raiser’s Edge or comparable donor CRM.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a strong emphasis on writing and editing.
• Attention to detail.
• Database management skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Ability to work proactively on a team and also as an independent self-starter.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a variety of personalities.
• Intrinsic motivation for achieving accuracy and excellence without oversight.
• Operate with a service mindset—an enthusiastic and positive attitude toward helping others.
• Comfort working in a highly integrated, innovative, and collaborative team environment.
• Ability to work occasional nights/weekends.
• Physical ability to work for prolonged periods of sitting/standing at a desk, as well as to occasionally lift up to 10 pounds and/or exert a negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects as needed.

Responsibilities

• Manage grant calendar deadlines and pipeline, create core narratives, and research funders to tailor requests as needed.
• Strategize with CAO to create appeal goals and reevaluate year-to-year as part of the development plan.
• Assist with proposal creation for corporate partners, family foundations, and individual donors, tailoring as needed.
• Oversee grant awards process, keeping program and finance teams appraised of grants received as well as reporting obligations.
• Work with CAO to prepare fundraising strategies for the Development Committee and Board of Directors.
• Handle administrative coordination of Development Committee, including communication, meeting scheduling, and recording of minutes.
• Oversee Raiser’s Edge database entry, updates, and flow into donor relations and stewardship plans.
• Implement donor relations plan, including outreach, in-person meetings, tours, and mailed collateral packets and reports.
• Work with CAO to increase donor retention through creation and oversight of a stewardship plan for first-time and existing donors.
• Plan and execute goal-oriented donor events.
• Hold responsibility for cultivating a small donor portfolio as assigned.
• Work with CAO and Communications & Marketing Manager to plan donor communications calendar and creation of print/digital collateral.
• Support the Advancement Department in execution of the marketing/communications plan as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Communication

Donor relations

Team collaboration

Self-starter

Detail oriented

Night/weekend availability

Bilingual EN/ES

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Raiser’s Edge

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Purpose

The Development Manager works with the Chief Advancement Officer (CAO) and Communications & Marketing Manager in stewarding external relationships and raising money to meet the revenue goals for general operating and board-approved special projects. The Development Manager reports to the Chief Advancement Officer.

Overview

The mission of Jubilee Park & Community Center (Jubilee) is to be a catalyst for community revitalization and enrichment in the Southeast Dallas/Fair Park neighborhood. The agency provides free, multigenerational services to families living in the 62-block neighborhood of Jubilee Park and surrounding areas, a part of Dallas which has long been under-resourced.

Founded in 1997, Jubilee has grown into a campus that includes a community center, teen center, resource center, Head Start facility, Early Head Start facility, senior housing complex, food pantry, a 2.5-acre park, and the Jubilee Park Community Clinic. Jubilee works closely with residents across five key pillars that inform the work and reflect the community's greatest challenges and opportunities. Those pillars are: Education, Opportunity, Housing & Workforce, Health, and Safety.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Fundraising—

• Manage grant calendar deadlines and pipeline, create core narratives, and research funders to tailor requests as needed. Oversee prospect research and evaluate new grant opportunities.
• Strategize with CAO to create appeal goals and reevaluate year-to-year as part of the development plan.
• Assist with proposal creation for corporate partners, family foundations, and individual donors, tailoring as needed.
• Oversee grant awards process, keeping program and finance teams appraised of grants received as well as reporting obligations. Work with the Research, Evaluation & Impact team, as well as program managers, to gather and update data for reporting program outcomes.
• Work with CAO to prepare fundraising strategies for the Development Committee and Board of Directors.
• Handle administrative coordination of Development Committee, including communication, meeting scheduling, and recording of minutes.

Donor Relations—

• Oversee Raiser’s Edge database entry, updates, and flow into donor relations and stewardship plans.
• Implement donor relations plan, including outreach, in-person meetings, tours, and mailed collateral packets and reports.
• Work with CAO to increase donor retention through creation and oversight of a stewardship plan for first-time and existing donors.
• Plan and execute goal-oriented donor events.
• Hold responsibility for cultivating a small donor portfolio as assigned.
• Work with CAO and Communications & Marketing Manager to strategically plan the donor communications calendar and creation of print and digital collateral for donor audience.
• Support the Advancement Department in execution of the marketing/communications plan as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

To perform the job successfully, applicants should demonstrate the following Jubilee Core Values:

We are AUTHENTIC

We are COMPASSIONATE

We are INCLUSIVE We are PURPOSEFUL We are RESILIENT

We are JUBILEE

Qualifications

Required—

• Bachelor’s degree and three years fundraising experience.
• Working knowledge, at minimum, of Raiser’s Edge or comparable donor CRM.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with a strong emphasis on writing and editing.
• Attention to detail.
• Database management skills.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Ability to work proactively on a team and also as an independent self-starter.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a variety of personalities.
• Intrinsic motivation for achieving accuracy and excellence without oversight.
• Operate with a service mindset—an enthusiastic and positive attitude toward helping others.
• Comfort working in a highly integrated, innovative, and collaborative team environment.
• Ability to work occasional nights/weekends.
• Physical ability to work for prolonged periods of sitting/standing at a desk, as well as to occasionally lift up to 10 pounds and/or exert a negligible amount of force to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects as needed.

Preferred—

• Grants management and grant writing experience.
• Knowledge of Dallas corporate/foundation funding community.
• Bilingual in English-Spanish.