Director of Christwood Foundation

Christwood; Covington (LA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Christwood Foundation seeks a visionary Director to provide strategic leadership, guiding philanthropy, fundraising, and donor relations. You will coordinate with the CEO, board, staff and volunteers to advance fundraising initiatives and ensure accountability and stewardship across the organization.

The role requires strong public speaking, donor development expertise, and a track record of building donor-centered programs, as well as managing weill-functioning fund development systems and

Qualifications

• Five years of nonprofit fundraising or development experience.
• Three years in a leadership/management role in nonprofit fundraising.
• Extensive knowledge of foundation management, fundraising principles, and donor management.
• Strong public speaking and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead donor engagement, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship strategies.
• Develop and implement fund development plans and governance policies.
• Manage staff and volunteers to institutionalize philanthropy across the organization.
• Collaborate with CEO, board and community partners to maximize fundraising performance.

Skills

Public speaking

Presentation skills

Education

College degree

Advanced degree

CFRE preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

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The Director of Christwood Foundation provides vision and strategic leadership to the Christwood Foundation; communicates a consistent mission-centered focus to board members, staff, residents, community partners and volunteers; serves as the symbol / face of the Foundation; ensures sound financial operations, accountability and stewardship; and works to successfully engage the community in realizing the creation of a culture for high performance philanthropy, development, and fundraising.

The Director of Christwood Foundation will foster and elevate the culture of philanthropy for both internal and external constituencies including board members, directors, staff, residents, donors and major prospects. Helps assure that the organization’s corporate culture, systems and procedures support the culture of philanthropy, the fund development process and vice versa. Leads staff and volunteers to institutionalize philanthropy and fund development within the organization. Plans, coordinates and assures the implementation of strategies to develop donors and contributions to support the organization.

Assures development and maintenance of appropriate fund development systems including but not limited to volunteer and donor management, research and cultivation, gift processing and recognition. Maintains accountability and compliance standards for donors and funding sources. Leads and facilitates the process to solidify the infrastructure of the Foundation [mission, vision, board, financial, management, and operational (board and development) policies and procedures] and the Foundation’s Case for Support. Develops and implements a donor-centered prospect pipeline and “stage-gate” management system for major gift and planned gift prospect identification, engagement, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship. Create personalized engagement strategies to maximize donor interaction, engagement and financial support. Work collaboratively and strategically with the Chief Executive Officer, board members, Christwood staff and volunteers to leverage relationships and contacts within the Christwood community and community at-large.

Qualifications:

• College degree, advanced degree or CFRE preferred.
• 5 years non-profit fund raising / development; 3 years in a key leadership/management role in a non-profit fundraising setting.
• Extensive knowledge of foundation management, fundraising principles, programs, and volunteer management. Extensive experience and success in planned giving, major gifts, special events management, stewardship and volunteer management. Extensive knowledge of endowment building, fund accounting and analysis. Working knowledge of gift processing and gift acknowledgement.
• Proficient in public speaking and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including applications in WORD, EXCEL and POWERPOINT.