Development Manager - Grants & Donor Relations

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

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.