Horizon's Development Manager

Carolina Day School; Asheville (NC); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 49,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, remote work option

Job summary

Horizons at Carolina Day School in Asheville, NC seeks a Development Manager to oversee a multi-modal fundraising program and to partner with the Executive Director and Board in strengthening Horizons’ growth and sustainability. The role focuses on advancing fundraising strategies and leading all fundraising activities.

This part-time position involves in-person collaboration on campus, occasional off-campus meetings, and flexible remote work for a portion of hours.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills and good judgment.
• Working knowledge of fundraising through social media.
• Reliable, collaborative, and flexible.
• Ability to relate to diverse communities and stakeholders.
• Strong time management, organizational skills, and attention to detail.
• Ability to learn from feedback and manage multiple projects.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Google Apps, and databases.

Responsibilities

• Support and collaborate with the Executive Director across all aspects of development.
• Coordinate donor communications via email, social media, and phone.
• Oversee donor outreach events and campaigns.
• Identify and cultivate major donors.
• Create fundraising materials and analyze results to increase reach.
• Lead donor stewardship and manage events for donors.
• Collaborate with staff to align programming and fundraising.
• Develop relationships with local businesses for giving programs.
• Represent Horizons at community events and raise awareness.
• Maintain donor database and generate lists and labels.
• Coordinate gift acknowledgments and reminders.
• Attend board meetings as requested.
• Contribute to expansion discussions and meet weekly with the Executive Director.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Social media fundraising

Time management

Organizational skills

Dependable

Collaborative

Adaptable

Communication with diverse groups

Microsoft Office

Google Apps

Database management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Google Apps

Database management

Job description

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Horizon's Development Manager

12 Month Employee Professional Asheville, NC, US

4 days ago Requisition ID: 1077

Salary Range: $30.00 To $30.00 Hourly

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Position Description

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

Horizons at Carolina Day aims to reverse the trend of summer learning loss that adversely impacts the long-term success of students who are impacted by inequities. Horizons at Carolina Day, an affiliate of the nationally renowned Horizons National program, is a public-private partnership that provides academic, cultural, and recreational summer programming designed to support students from under-resourced communities in realizing their full potential. The heart of Horizons is a six-week, equity-centered academic summer program that supports students in reading, writing, math, and science, paired with swimming lessons, field trips, sports, and enrichment activities in the performing and visual arts. The program also includes a year-round component featuring Saturday events, visits to schools, family support, and communication with students’ schools and teachers. The student/teacher ratio at Horizons is approximately 5:1.

The program begins in kindergarten and serves its students through 9th grade and beyond, helping them build skills and self-confidence and realize their full potential through a unique blend of academic, cultural, and recreational enrichment activities. Additionally, Horizons provides direct, individualized academic support and tutoring to its students throughout the year. Working in partnership with Horizons families, schools in Asheville and Buncombe County, and the host school, Carolina Day School, Horizons at Carolina Day School supports the whole child and offers activities that promote higher-level thinking and perspective, leadership development and boost self-efficacy.

Horizons will serve over 135 students from 2026 and beyond, from kindergarten through high school and will continue to expand and refine its work. For more information about Horizons, please visit https://www.horizonsatcarolinaday.org .

POSITION SUMMARY

The Development Manager will manage a dynamic and multi-modal development program that will support the continued growth and sustainability of Horizons at Carolina Day. This position will work to advance the current development program while also conceiving and implementing new fundraising strategies. This position will partner with the Executive Director and the Board of Directors while taking the lead on all fundraising activities.

POSITION STATUS

Staff, part-time. This position involves collaborating in the office on the campus of Carolina Day School, taking meetings in-person off-campus, as well as virtual meetings. Flexible, remote work will also be possible for a portion of the hours. Approximately 60 to 80 hours per month.

COMPENSATION

$30 per hour

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support and collaborate with the Executive Director across all aspects of development
• Communicate with individual donors through annual giving efforts such as email and social media campaigns as well as phone communications
• Supervise Horizons National Giving Day, year-end efforts through outreach, strategy, and social media
• Identify and cultivate major donors
• Create campaign and fundraising materials, analyze all fundraising results, and make recommendations to the ED and Board to increase reach, participation, and gift level
• Lead stewardship efforts for donor base
• Manage, supervise and lead special events oriented toward our donors during the year these include friendraisers, supporter’s breakfast(s), visits to programming, and our annual benefit.
• Collaborate with program director and teaching staff to set event schedules as needed
• Develop relationships with area businesses and corporations to build corporate giving program
• Represent Horizons at Carolina Day at community events and implement strategies to increase awareness and name recognition of Horizons throughout the community
• Update and manage donor database including updating all constituent information, producing mailing labels and lists, creating and updating donor lists, and processing donations throughout the year and ticket sales for our annual event
• Coordinate the gift acknowledgement process, ensuring all gifts and pledges are stewarded in a timely fashion; generate annual gift reminders
• Attend board meetings as requested
• Contribute to expansion and growth conversations related to programming
• Meet weekly with the Executive Director

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

• Passionate about Horizons at Carolina Day and its mission
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including discretion and good judgment
• Working knowledge of fundraising through all social media outlets
• Reliable, collaborative, and flexible
• Ability to relate effectively to a diverse community and to connect with Horizons’ staff, volunteers, partners, consultants, board members, children, and parents
• Demonstrated excellence in time management, organizational skills, and attention to detail
• Ability to learn from feedback, handle multiple projects, work independently, and produce quality results on schedule
• Demonstrated ability with Microsoft Office, Google Apps, and familiarity with database management
• 2+ years of experience in a development or fundraising or grantmaking role

Ideal

• Experience in developing and organizing marketing and fundraising proposals for various audiences
• Experience working with various stakeholders to ensure mission alignment across fundraising and/or efforts in nonprofit settings

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds. This position sometimes has to use ladders, scaffolding and other equipment to work off the ground.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.