Director of Development

Mad Agriculture - Remote or Boulder, CO; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mad Agriculture is seeking a seasoned development director to drive fundraising growth. The role focuses on expanding grants, donations, and sponsorships to scale the organization from $2M to $5M in annual budget.

A typical week includes cultivating donor relationships, managing funding partners, and coordinating grant-writing strategies, impact reporting, and major proposals for public and private sectors.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of fundraising experience and a strong track record of securing significant grants, donations and/or sponsorships.

Responsibilities

• Cultivate new donor relationships and manage existing funding relationships.
• Work with teams on grant-writing communication strategies and impact reporting.
• Lead moderate to major proposals ($25k - $20M) for public and private sectors; write progress and final grant reports.
• Build compelling decks to pitch and update donors and investors; develop fundraising strategy with Mad Ag partner organizations.

Skills

Fundraising

Grant Writing

Donor Relations

Strategic Planning

Communication

Budgeting

Job description

At Mad Agriculture we put radical ideals to work. Our mission is to create a regenerative revolution in agriculture. We like solving problems by blending the dimensions of agriculture, social psychology, philosophy, science, ecology, economics, movement building, markets, poetry, innovation and finance. We believe that healing our relationships to self, others and the earth is our highest calling, and we’re looking for talented, mission-oriented folks to join our dynamic team! We are a leader in the regenerative agriculture revolution and need someone to help us raise more funds to drive growth and impact.

ABOUT THE POSITION

At Mad Agriculture, money is the limiting factor to growth and impact. Our goal is to increase our annual budget from $2M to $5M by the end of 2024. We need some that can lead this charge. We are looking for a seasoned development director that will immediately impact our fundraising goals, with a minimum of 5 years of fundraising experience and a strong track record of securing significant grants, donations and/or sponsorships.

A typical week will encompass many activities, including cultivating new donor relationships; managing existing funding relationships; working with individual teams on grant-writing communication strategies, impact reporting; leading moderate to major proposals ($25k - $20M budget) for the public and private sector; writing progress and final grant reports; building compelling decks to pitch and update a wide variety of donors and investors; developing a robust communication approach that enlivens our funder community, working with Mad Ag partner organizations on collaborative funding opportunities, working close with Philip Taylor to develop and execute a fundraising strategy to meet our ambitious growth goals, and more.

COMPENSATION

$110-$150k