Restructuring & Turnaround Consulting Director
Huron
Associate Development Director, Individual Giving
Faith in Place
full-time
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Location: Illinois, Wisconsin • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $70,000 - $90,000 per year
Job Level
Entry Level
Tech Stack
Spring
About the role
- Join a diverse, fun team passionate about creating healthier and more just communities as Faith in Place’s Associate Development Director, Individual Giving.
- Serve as the fourth member of a collaborative Development Team securing financial resources for Faith in Place supporting Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin communities.
- Overall responsibility for identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual donors.
- Develop and implement data-driven strategies to increase yearly individual giving revenue from $300,000 (FY 2025 goal) to $500,000 (FY 2028 goal).
- Manage spring and end-of-year annual fundraising campaigns.
- Monitor and improve donor thanking to ensure all individual donors are thanked promptly, effectively, and consistently.
- Design and implement donor stewardship events, with initial focus on Sustainers Circle major donors.
- Write individual donor fundraising proposals and reports.
- Increase planned giving, including legacy gifts (bequests).
- Participate in other Development Team activities, such as corporate funder solicitation and foundation grant reporting.
- Supervise up to 1 development staff person.
Requirements
- Live in Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin at time of job application and, if hired, as employee.
- At least 6-8 years of successful experience in major gifts, annual giving, donor stewardship, and/or planned giving.
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including ability to communicate effectively and work with individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, religions, and political beliefs.
- Excellent analytical and project management skills.
- Experience with donor database and CRM systems.
- Excellent skills in standard business computer applications.
- Passion for environmental and climate justice.
- Preferred: Bachelor’s degree. Significant employment experience relevant to the position may be substituted.
