Job Title: Development Director
Reports to: Executive Director
Team: Fundraising
Full Time, Location flexible (U.S. only)
Ideal start date February 1st
Job closes December 30th
The JVP family of organizations are growing, developing and mobilizing a powerful grassroots, multiracial base of Jews toward a future of Judaism beyond Zionism and the end of Israeli apartheid and occupation. We're looking for a seasoned Development Director to join our team.
The Development Director is a senior level position that oversees the vision, strategies and implementation of raising the $3 million combined annual budget of JVP (our 501c3) and JVP Action (our 501c4) through our powerful grassroots fundraising program. This position will hold deep relationships with donors and foundations, invest in the leadership, skills and capacities of our talented fundraising team, and invest in new and innovative fundraising strategies for our family of organizations.
About our Development Program:
JVP's fundraising model integrates fundraising, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications. We have an enthusiastic and talented team who all hold their own donor portfolios, and tens of thousands of individual donors who make up 90% of our organizational income and an average gift of $60.
Our development program values:
- Being accountable to our member base, not foundations: Because our funding comes overwhelmingly from our grassroots base, not institutions, we are able to take bold, values-based positions.
- Treating fundraising as an organizing skill: we believe our fundraising program should be accessible and that fundraising is integral to our political work.
- Valuing relationships: we build connections with our donors that are multi-dimensional and enduring
- Using a data-driven and digital approach: we track everything and we take a data-driven approach to building audiences, setting messaging, determining ask frequency and amount, and so much more. We have a burgeoning analytics stack that we're working hard on expanding.
- Investing in innovation: we learn, test, and adapt our fundraising methods to meet our goals.
- Finding joy in fundraising: we believe in moving resources to support our movement
Job Responsibilities include:
Development Program Leadership
- Leading a fundraising program that integrates JVPA and JVP's fundraising in accordance with industry best practices and innovates from JVP's grassroots fundraising model.
- Using a balance of data, experience and intuition to drive strategy, including: messaging and personalization; investment in program areas; setting audiences; choosing key experiments and tests.
- Regularly evaluating the fundraising program metrics to ensure they maintain industry-standard levels for retention, engagement, donations, and best practices.
- Ensuring Fundraising Team works collaboratively and collegially.
- Directly supervising two staff and mentoring senior fundraising team members.
- Overseeing development-related communications, including fundraising emails, and compellingly communicating our strategy, political positions, and campaign wins to a variety of audiences. Staying current with digital best practices and trends in the industry.
Major Donors and Foundation Cultivation
- Overseeing and improving our comprehensive grassroots development strategy for major donors, small donors, and foundations for both JVP and JVPA.
- Maintaining a portfolio of high-capacity major donors, soliciting contributions and stewarding long-term relationships with donors for both JVP and JVPA.
- Developing relationships with prospective individual and foundation donors for JVP and JVPA by regularly attending relevant events, conferences, meetings.
Organizational Leadership
- As part of senior leadership, ensuring successful execution of JVP and JVPA's priorities, and participating in organization wide strategic planning and stewardship. Participate in setting weekly priorities with directors of other programs.
- Ensuring our development program is accountable to our Palestinian allied organizations, and integrates a commitment to racial justice in its practices. Sharing JVP grassroots fundraising strategies and theories with movement partners in order to deepen and strengthen the Palestinian rights movement in the U.S.
- Serving as a key member of the Finance Team by participating in: yearly and mid-year budgeting, the collective financial oversight of our budget, and yearly financial audits with regards to income-related reporting.
Desired Qualifications:
The Development Director should have extensive experience in grassroots fundraising strategies including major donors, foundations, online fundraising, direct mail and grassroots supporter engagement. The ideal candidate will be someone who is comfortable combining data, relationships, organizing and passion toward fundraising results.
Candidates must have:
- Prior experience directing a complex fundraising program, including grassroots fundraising. Minimum 7 years experience preferred.
- Excellent and compelling writing and communication skills, with the ability to craft persuasive fundraising messaging.
- Demonstrated ability to make creative and data-driven strategy decisions to achieve concrete fundraising outcomes. Digital strategy experience; knowledge of and literacy with email, social, and direct mail best practices.
- A proven track record in developing and stewarding relationships with high-level donors, including experience securing six-figure gifts.
- Demonstrated experience training and mentoring staff and volunteer fundraisers.
- Demonstrated superior project management skills.
- Familiarity with EveryAction or other similar CRM software and using data for improving fundraising outcomes.
- Knowledge of or experience with Jewish community.
Ideal candidates will have:
- Passion for grassroots fundraising as part of organizing strategy.
- A clear understanding of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) nonprofit relationship/structures.
- A commitment to and understanding of JVP's political positions.
While all staff travel is currently suspended due to COVID-19, the position normally asks for the ability and willingness to travel regularly for donor meetings, fundraising events, conferences, and staff meetings.
Compensation and Benefits:
This is an exempt, salaried full time position. The salary range, dependent on experience, is $75,000 to $82,000 annually, with a robust benefits package. JVP full-time staff are eligible for up to twenty days of vacation time per year. Staff are eligible to accrue up to twelve sick paid days per year. All staff also have 13 paid holidays off.
Location: all US locations considered.
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