About the role
Purpose and responsibilities
Establish a responsible fundraising function that builds relationships, trains future fundraisers, measures performance, and protects community trust.
Responsibilities
- Develop ethical fundraising messages, outreach methods, and training
- Participate in fundraising directly before teaching the process to others
- Track contacts, conversations, conversion, donations, retention, locations, and messages
- Coach fundraisers and address performance or conduct problems
- Build repeatable procedures for expansion into additional communities
- Protect donor comfort, organizational reputation, and legal and ethical standards
What we’re looking for
- Persuasive, respectful communication and strong public judgment
- Comfort being measured against clear results
- Ability to teach, coach, document, and improve a process
- Capacity to diagnose whether results reflect the person, message, place, audience, or training
- Commitment to relationship-based fundraising without inappropriate pressure
Foundational position expectations
- Demonstrate the work before scaling a team
- Measure outcomes and discuss performance honestly
- Protect trust and standards even when aggressive tactics might produce money
- Document successful practices so others can learn and repeat them
- Build a function that can responsibly expand beyond one location
Compensation
negotiated
Negotiated and may include performance-based terms defined in writing.
Application