Center for Biological Diversity

Account Manager

• Plan, oversee, and support the production and execution of multiple fundraising campaigns, appeals and reports designed to increase philanthropic support from our base of Leadership Circle members.
• Develop calendars and timelines for execution of campaigns, reports, proposals, events and other outreach to donors.
• Provide year-round stewardship of Leadership Circle members to ensure fundraising goals are met and exceeded.
• Develop and implement stewardship plans designed to increase retention and engagement for key donors.
• Manage donor relations staff to ensure timely, high quality, effective and increased donor communications, stewardship and fundraising activities.
• Ensure Leadership Circle members’ inbound communications via email, handwritten notes, and phone calls are addressed promptly and with a high level of care and attention.
• Research and identify new prospects to pass on to the Chief Development Officer, Deputy Development Director, Membership Director and Major Gifts Manager for major gifts development.
• Cultivate a portfolio of Leadership Circle donors.
• Support donor relations staff’s work to successfully manage their own portfolios.
• Draft, format, and send letters, emails, proposals, reports, etc., for our Leadership Circle, Owls Club, individual and family funders.
• Assist in preparation of same for MGOs.
• Directly engage Leadership Circle members through phone calls, 1:1 zoom calls and some face-to-face meetings as well as individual emails.
• Collaborate with the membership and development operations teams on direct mail and email fundraising campaigns, as well as supporting stewardship, cultivation and solicitation for the Center’s growing segment of monthly donors.
• Ensure donors receive timely and high-quality informal thank you emails, cards, and calls as well as formal tax-receipt and acknowledgement letters.
• Review data with a high attention to detail and careful decision making that will ensure donors are communicated with according to pre-set strategies and according to their preferences.
• Plan, coordinate, and support implementation of donor events and webinars and support post-event follow-up communications.
• Support Chief Development Officer on planned giving efforts via campaigns, regular Owls Club communications and welcome letters.
• Move nimbly to implement rapid communications in response to breaking news, or in response to requests for reports or other information.
• Stay on top of trends in both the environmental movement as well as in best practices for donor stewardship.
• Assist with other projects as assigned.

Donor Relations Manager

Manager

• Supporting and organizing the cultivation, solicitation, and closing of five, six, seven-figure and higher major gifts from individual donors and foundations, as well as stewardship of same.
• Implementing “moves management” across the major gifts program - moving donors through cultivation, solicitation and stewardship phases in relationship building.
• Helping the MGOs to close major gifts and meet the Center’s goals for revenue growth from high five, six, seven-figure or higher donors.
• Developing, documenting, and tracking cultivation, stewardship and solicitation plans for individual major donors, legacy donors, family foundations, and prospective donors.
• Organizing and supporting MGO solicitation activities including donor meetings, experiences, proposals to help close major donor and grant gifts.
• Collaborating and strategizing with senior development leadership, grant writers, and the development operations team to cultivate and solicit funds from major donors, foundation funders and prospects before, during and after events, webinars and campaigns.
• Helping build enduring relationships with major donors by providing high-level stewardship support drafting and sending personalized communications and reports.
• Meeting with donors, as assigned, through phone, Zoom and face-to-face to cultivate and secure major gifts.

Major Gifts Manager

Attorney

• Track, analyze, and comment on harmful proposals including plan amendments and revisions and site-specific projects as appropriate.
• Litigate to challenge harmful projects in federal and state court.
• Engage in administrative advocacy, such as commenting on proposed plans, projects, and rulemakings and the preparation of petitions for rulemaking.
• Analyze pending state and federal legislation.
• Participate in strategic planning and execution of both legal and campaign strategies.
• Develop cases to further the goals of the Center's Great Basin Program.
• Work with regional, local, and national partners.
• Work with scientists and other related experts.
• Work with relevant staff to prepare external communications; and give talks at relevant conferences.
• Occasional travel required (meetings, conferences, hearings, oral arguments, field visits, etc.).
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Staff or Senior Attorney

Operations

• Query data sources to extract and compile contact lists for member cultivation and stewardship outreach.
• Provide mail and email production support including proofreading copy and tests, mail merging, printing, sending, creating source codes in the CRM database, and tracking contact histories for highly personalized fundraising and stewardship communications going to funders by email and mail.
• Perform data entry and collection tasks related to member records, member activities and communications, and development team expense and supplies tracking.
• Update and distribute routine fundraising performance reports to enable analysis by team leaders.
• Ensure data integrity by executing regular quality control and data hygiene processes.
• Develop and refine systems and tools, often in collaboration with other departments, including IT, to improve operational efficiency and project management.
• Document processes and methodologies and provide cross training for other team members.
• Update fields and tables in CRM database to adapt to evolving tracking needs.
• Maintain the development team’s shared files by implementing and adhering to logical hierarchies, standardized file naming conventions, and regular archiving and purging according to the Center’s document retention best practices.
• Receive cross training to provide coverage for other data and administrative tasks.
• Participate in other fundraising and outreach activities as needed.
• Occasional speaking to groups.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Development Operations Associate

• Advocate for the conservation of endangered species utilizing administrative and legal tools
• Identify and carry out opportunities to protect endangered species from habitat destruction, pollution, exploitation and other threats through litigation and other advocacy
• Identify, develop, and litigate cases and administrative actions to further campaign goals
• Mentor new program attorneys
• Develop detailed knowledge of the status of endangered species across the country
• Build and maintain relationships with partner organizations, coalitions, government officials, scientists
• Utilize litigation and media campaigns to highlight the threats to imperiled wildlife
• Complete other project work outside of the program as needed to meet changing organizational priorities
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Senior Attorney

Community Manager

• Assist in curating the Center’s social media presence across major and emerging platforms, including planning, scheduling, publishing, monitoring, and optimizing content.
• Treat the Center’s social channels as a living digital publication, ensuring content is timely, accurate, compelling, audience-aware, and aligned with the organization’s mission.
• Help implement social strategies that increase reach, engagement, supporter acquisition, donor conversion, sustainer growth, and membership growth, including broadcast channels, subscriber channels, DM journeys, and more.
• Collaborate with both Senior Online Membership Associates to develop and then implement platform-specific editorial calendars and campaign plans.
• Package organizational priorities, campaign updates, legal wins, scientific information, breaking news, advocacy opportunities, and fundraising messages into engaging social content.
• Write sharp, clear, compelling social copy, captions, hooks, headlines, calls to action, and community-facing messages.
• Identify opportunities to adapt long-form content, email content, reports, press materials, campaign materials, and internal updates into digestible social-first content.
• Coordinate with content producers to publish and distribute videos, graphics, cutdowns, templates, and other creative assets on social channels.
• Monitor platform trends, social conversations, memes, creator formats, algorithm changes, and emerging best practices to recommend timely content opportunities.
• Engage directly with followers and commentors, identify influencers and potential partners.
• Surface emerging trends to inform campaign planning.
• Help maintain channel voice, posting standards, accessibility practices, and quality control across all social platforms.
• Participate in reporting and analyzing metrics on social media performance, including reach, engagement, audience growth, traffic, conversions, and content trends.
• Use performance data to help improve future content, posting strategies, creative formats, audience engagement, and generating reports to communicate that to the entire team.
• Support rapid-response content needs during urgent campaign moments, breaking news, legal developments, or major organizational opportunities.
• Contribute to team project management tools and editorial calendars to help identify needs, deadlines, and production priorities.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Online Membership Associate, Community Engagement

Performance Marketing

• Help implement paid digital campaigns to increase donor acquisition, sustainer growth, donor renewals, upgrades, and overall membership growth.
• Assist with campaign setup, quality assurance, naming conventions, reporting, and publishing across paid digital platforms.
• Support paid advertising efforts across Meta, Google, YouTube, LinkedIn, TikTok, and other emerging or relevant digital channels.
• Develop and execute A/B testing strategies across paid media campaigns, including ad copy, creative, landing pages, audiences, and bidding approaches to improve conversion rates and campaign performance.
• Manage and optimize Google Ads paid search campaigns, including keyword strategy, bid adjustments, search term analysis, negative keyword monitoring, quality score improvements, and ongoing performance reporting.
• Work with the Senior Online Membership Associate to monitor campaign performance, identify trends, and help recommend budget and creative adjustments.
• Work with the Senior Online Membership Associate and Lead Content Producer to support in light graphic creation, video editing, creative versioning, resizing of assets and various other content needs.
• Help manage and track advertising performance against goals, spend pacing, campaign timelines, and performance benchmarks.
• Build and maintain systems for organizing creative assets, campaign links, ad copy, targeting notes, reporting documents, and platform-specific requirements.
• Assist in testing multiple versions of creative, copy, audiences, placements, landing pages, and formats across paid channels.
• Coordinate with content producers to ensure assets are correctly formatted, labeled, delivered, and ready for launch.
• Help identify new paid distribution opportunities, channels, vendors, tools, and platform formats that could support membership growth.
• Participate in reporting and analyzing metrics on digital advertising performance, including acquisition, conversion, engagement, cost, and revenue trends.
• Help customize dashboards and reports to deliver actionable insights on paid ad campaigns.
• Support the production and maintenance of landing pages, tracking links, UTM systems, pixels, tags, and other campaign infrastructure as needed.
• Monitor paid social and digital advertising trends, platform changes, and emerging best practices.
• Contribute to team project management tools, production calendars, and campaign planning processes.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Online Membership Associate, Paid Ads Specialist

Producer

• Help in development and implementation of online campaigns to increase donor acquisition, sustainer growth, donor renewals and upgrades.
• Working with the Lead Content Producer and Senior Online Membership Associate, help set creative and strategic direction of online and social acquisition and fundraising campaigns.
• Produce visually stunning videos and graphics and write moving, powerful copy for deployment in digital ads, landing pages, lightboxes and other Center web properties, as well as postcards, invites and other fundraising letters and donor stewardship pieces.
• Participate in reporting and analyzing metrics on performance across all channels and platforms, with a focus on membership growth, retention, upgrades and sustainer growth.
• Ensure content is vetted, proofread and approved by Center program and communications staff.
• Work with Digital team to identify and collaborate on fundraising opportunities, such as asks in the EEO and action alerts.
• With Acquisition team, help unify the Center’s voice and style across social platforms and other digital channels.
• Design and work directly with vendors to produce print collateral such as quarterly newsletters, event postcard invitations, annual reports and other related collateral.
• Assist in the weekly production of landing pages for email appeals and post-action landing pages.
• Help maintain microsites featuring the Center’s accomplishments and ongoing work.
• Identify opportunities and pilot experiments using new formats and/or platforms to improve fundraising success.
• Stay informed of Center activities as well as news and conservations trends affecting our work in the media.
• Assist with other fundraising and Development duties as assigned.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.