The Development Director oversees the CES donor relations program and manages fundraising initiative. They are responsible for developing campaigns, communicating with current and prospective donors, and building a strong team.

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Job Responsibilities:

• Relationship Management and Solicitation: Play the lead role in donor relations in a collaborative effort with the Executive Director and Board, through prospecting, identifying, managing, and cultivating a major gifts portfolio through a relationship-first approach. Act as primary relationship manager for individual, private foundation, and private investing prospects to reach or exceed annual funding goals. Establish new relationships and opportunities through implementing key development initiatives and activities.
• Strategy and Cultivation: Create, integrate, and implement short, intermediate, and long-term individual major gifts strategies. Develop strategic funding requests based on organizational funding goals. Communicate with key stakeholders (internal and external) as appropriate.
• Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual activity to achieve major gift revenue goals. Track and report relationship management activity using internal systems and processes. Using external benchmarks, provide data analysis and reporting of the major gifts effectiveness and efficiency.