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Director of Development

Fremont, California · Director

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago

Data AnalysisCanvaProject ManagementEmail MarketingCRMProcess ImprovementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationOrganizational Skills

About the role

Campaign & Relationship Management: Oversees and advances membership campaigns, individual donor pipelines, and personalized cultivation and solicitation strategies.
Grants & Institutional Giving: Directs the strategy, tracking, and reporting for all corporate, foundation, and government grant proposals, ensuring compliance and alignment with organizational goals.
Events: Oversees strategic donor recognition and fundraising events to maximize engagement and return on investment.

Board Engagement: Partners with and equips the Board of Directors in fundraising activities; serves as the primary staff liaison for relevant Board committees and provides timely, data-driven progress reports.
Systems & Data Management: Ensures donor tracking systems (CRM) and data workflows support the business needs of the organization; assesses and implements new technology as appropriate to drive data-informed decisions.
Workflows: Establishes clear operational lanes, guardrails, and internal workflows to define where development activities interface with communications initiatives; optimizes the collective capacity of the team to ensure revenue-generating activities are prioritized.
This role builds philanthropic partnerships, elevates organizational visibility, and leads a dedicated team.
A primary mandate for this position is to assess and optimize existing internal workflows, establishing clear operational boundaries and transitioning the department toward high-performance, data-driven operations.
Ensures donor tracking systems (CRM) and data workflows support the business needs of the organization; assesses and implements new technology as appropriate to drive data-informed decisions.
Demonstrated experience in process optimization, workflow design, or scaling/rebuilding development and communications operations.

Minimum of 8 years of progressive development and fundraising experience in the nonprofit sector, with a proven track record of securing major gifts and corporate/foundation funding.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in a related field.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to walk
The employee is occasionally required to

Proficiency with modern nonprofit CRMs/donor databases, digital fundraising platforms, and data analytics tools.

Superb written, oral, and presentation skills; ability to translate complex programmatic work into compelling fundraising narratives.
Technical Savvy: Proficiency with modern nonprofit CRMs/donor databases, digital fundraising platforms, and data analytics tools.
Experience with agile content tools (e.g., Canva, email marketing platforms) is highly preferred.

Collaborates with the CFO and Executive Director to construct, monitor, and manage the annual departmental budget.
Strategic Planning: In partnership with the Executive Director, defines SAVE's overarching fundraising strategies, policies, and implementation; develops a robust, multi-year development plan encompassing major gifts, annual campaigns, and corporate/foundation partnerships.
Revenue Generation: Owns accountability for meeting the organization's annual contributed revenue goals through events, direct major donor cultivation and oversight of department initiatives.
Brand & Messaging Strategy: Develops and executes an annual marketing and communications plan to elevate SAVE's profile across digital, print, social media, and traditional press platforms.
The Director of Development and Communications serves as a strategic leader responsible for designing, executing, and modernizing SAVE's fundraising and marketing strategy to support our $4M annual operating budget.

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

As an equal opportunity employer, SAVE supports equal opportunity for employment and advancement free of race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, sex (including sexual harassment) pregnancy (childbirth or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation (heterosexuality and bisexuality), medical condition (cancer and genetic characteristics), mental and physical disability (includes HIV and AIDS), political affiliation/opinion, Veteran's status, or request for family leave.
SAVE is committed to ensuring that the work environment of SAVE employees is free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions except when such accommodation would cause undue hardship.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions except when such accommodation would cause an undue hardship.

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