Lead For America

Director

• **What You’ll Do:**
• **Fundraising Strategy & Leadership (30%):**
• - Design and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy to support organizational growth and sustainability, in collaboration with the CEO and senior leadership.
• - Develop annual and multi-year revenue goals across individual, institutional, and corporate giving streams.
• - Partner with the CEO to develop and execute high-level fundraising strategies for major donors and institutional funders.
• - Provide data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions and ensure progress toward fundraising goals.
• **Development Operations Infrastructure & Pipeline Management (30%):**
• - Build and manage a dynamic fundraising pipeline that tracks engagement, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship stages.
• - Ensure that prospects move effectively through the pipeline by coordinating internal responsibilities, follow-up, and communications.
• - Lead the selecting and building of the CRM and development systems for accuracy, timeliness, and actionable reporting.
• - Create regular dashboards and reports to track key performance metrics and support strategic decision-making.
• **Relationship Management & Funder Stewardship (15%):**
• - Lead the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of a portfolio of funders, including foundations, individual donors, and corporate partners.
• - Support the CEO in preparing for donor meetings, briefings, and follow-ups; draft communications, proposals, and presentations as needed.
• - Manage grant timelines, submissions, and reporting in collaboration with program and finance teams.
• - Develop thoughtful engagement and stewardship strategies to strengthen funder relationships and deepen investment in Lead For America’s mission.
• **Collaboration & Internal Communication (10%):**
• - Work cross-functionally with program, communications, and finance teams to align messaging, impact reporting, and storytelling with fundraising objectives.
• - Foster a culture of transparency and collaboration across departments to ensure development activities are integrated with programmatic and operational goals.
• - Coordinate with communications to ensure consistent branding and messaging across proposals, reports, and public materials.
• **Input and maintain data in CRM and relevant tracking systems (5%):**
• - Understand how to use (CRM) and other systems effectively
• - Ensure data integrity and accurate, up-to-date records for relationship management activities, company interaction, and leads including entering and updating information to have real time accurate data in (CRM)
• - Utilize tracking systems for your work streams that allows for regular analysis of owned workstreams.
• **Organizational Requirements (10%):**
• In addition to the responsibilities unique to the Role described above, all Team members devote a portion of their time to supporting strategic and operational efforts across our teams that advance the organization:
• - Compliance for org-wide administration - expense reporting, benefits, KPI tracking
• - Taking part in additional organizational initiatives, priorities, and responsibilities, as needed.

Director of Development