East Alabama Area Development Director Auburn, AL

Youth For Christ International; Auburn (AL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Coverage

Retirement Savings with 3% match after

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Youth For Christ International seeks a Director of Development to architect revenue growth across 10 ministry sites. You’ll translate transformation stories into compelling donor proposals and lead major gifts, campaigns, and grant pipelines in collaboration with the Executive Director.

Responsibilities include major donor cultivation, event execution, grant writing, and maintaining Salesforce donor data, enabling predictable, mission-driven funding for community youth development.

Qualifications

• BA in Marketing, Communications, Projects or Business or equivalent experience.
• Minimum one-year event experience.
• Experience in fundraising, donor relations and grants.

Responsibilities

• Major Donor Cultivation & Moves Management for a portfolio of 75–100 high-level donors.
• Lead planning and execution of fundraising banquets, golf tournaments and campaigns.
• Research, write and submit grant proposals to foundations and corporations.
• Collaborate with Operations to ensure data integrity in Salesforce and donor acknowledgments.

Skills

Donor cultivation

Campaign management

Grant writing

Stakeholder relations

Event coordination

Education

BA in Marketing, Communications, Projects or Business or equivalent experience

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

The Director of Development serves as the strategic architect of revenue generation and financial growth for the Youth for Christ (YFC) chapter. Working as the primary executive complement to the Executive Director (who retains spiritual and ministry command), this role translates the local chapter's stories of spiritual transformation into clear, actionable investment opportunities for major donors, corporate partners, foundations, and local churches. The Director of Development oversees all fundraising campaigns, banquet executions, major donor cultivation, and grant writing pipelines to systematically sustain the 10 current ministry sites and fund the strategic multi-site expansion plan.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

1. Major Donor Cultivation & Moves Management (40%)

•Portfolio Stewardship: Identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a personal portfolio of 75–100 major individual financial partners ($2,500+ annually).

•Executive Facilitation: Schedule, prepare, and accompany the Executive Director on high-level donor pitches, matching the ED's raw ministry stories with targeted giving proposals.

•Vision Casting: Regularly escort existing and prospective financial champions onto the field to observe the 10 local ministry sites firsthand, linking donor capital directly to regional spiritual impact.

2. Strategic Campaigns & Event Execution (30%)

•Large-Scale Banquets: Serve as the executive project manager for the chapter's annual fundraising banquet and golf tournaments, owning the operational timeline, table-captain recruitment, and financial underwriting metrics.

•Giving Logistics: Design and implement comprehensive year-end matching campaigns, monthly partner acquisition pushes, and peer-to-peer digital giving frameworks.

•Corporate Partnerships: Build business-to-business sponsorship packages that afford local marketplace leaders the opportunity to invest heavily in community youth development infrastructure.

3. Foundations, Institutional Grants & Church Alliances (20%)

•Grant Writing: Research, draft, and submit data-grounded funding proposals to private family foundations, community trusts, and corporate philanthropy boards.

•Church Mission Budgets: Partner alongside the Executive Director to pitch local church mission boards, securing predictable, long-term monthly or annual chapter subsidies from corporate church allocations.

4. Shared Infrastructure, Database & Team Alignment (10%)

•Data Integrity: Collaborate directly with the Operations Coordinator to audit giving data in Salesforce CRM, ensuring flawless tracking of donor pledges, clean acknowledgment timelines, and giving pattern analysis.

•Personal Ministry Fund: Model sacrificial leadership by cultivating and maintaining a small personal network of prayer and financial partners to subsidize their own leadership presence within the chapter.

Position Requirements

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong organizational skills
• Multi-tasker with strong work ethic
• Superior interpersonal skills
• Creativity

Credentials Required & Preferred Education

• BA in Marketing, Communications, Projects or Business or equivalent experience
• Minimum one-year event experience

All YFC employees are expected to regularly and actively participate in faithful activities that advance the stewardship functions of YFC/USA. These activities will include—but are not limited to— extending invitations to fund raising events, recruiting personal circle of influence/YFC donor contacts, sending letters, handwritten notes, personal calls, and personally ministering to donor contacts.

Paid Time Off Program

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Health Coverage
• Retirement Savings Program & Matching Contribution starting at 3% after year one

EEO Statement

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role, the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC’s mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person’s religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry.

We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation.

We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.