The Mockingbird Society

Community Manager

• Develop and implement annual and multi-year fundraising strategies, goals, key performance indicators, and department priorities that grow and diversify revenue while regularly evaluating progress and adapting strategies to maximize impact
• Lead fundraising across individual giving, major gifts, sponsorships, campaigns, community partnerships, and institutional philanthropy
• Build and steward relationships with donors, sponsors, funders, and community partners
• Partner with the Executive Director and Board of Directors to advance fundraising engagement and philanthropic leadership
• Serve as staff liaison to the Board Philanthropy Committee
• Monitor fundraising performance and revenue goals to support long-term sustainability
• Build authentic relationships with supporters, community members, partners, and volunteers to strengthen connection to Mockingbird's mission
• Advance Community-Centric Fundraising principles that emphasize reciprocity, equity, transparency, and shared responsibility
• Partner with youth and young adults to inform fundraising strategy, donor engagement, events, and storytelling
• Collaborate with the Communications Director to align fundraising priorities, donor engagement, storytelling, and community-building efforts
• Ensure engagement practices are ethical, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and non-extractive
• Create opportunities for supporters to learn, connect, and invest in systems change for young people
• Provide strategic leadership for philanthropy operations, fundraising systems, donor stewardship practices, and revenue forecasting
• Monitor fundraising performance, revenue goals, and key metrics to support data-informed decision-making and long-term sustainability
• Partner with the Grants & Impact Manager to ensure accurate tracking and reporting of gifts, grants, sponsorships, donor engagement activities, and fundraising outcomes
• Provide strategic oversight of institutional fundraising priorities and cultivate relationships with key foundation, corporate, and philanthropic partners
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing philanthropy team, including direct supervision of the Grants & Impact Manager and other philanthropy staff, consultants, interns, and volunteers
• Serve as a member of the Leadership Team and contribute to organizational planning, culture-building, and strategic initiatives
• Foster a collaborative, equitable, accountable, and mission-driven team culture

Director of Philanthropy – Community Engagement

Manager

• Lead the full institutional giving lifecycle, including prospect research, letters of inquiry, grant proposals, reports, renewals, stewardship, and revenue tracking.
• Develop compelling grant narratives that accurately communicate organizational impact and align with funder priorities.
• Manage the organization’s grants calendar, proposal pipeline, reporting deadlines, and revenue projections.
• Coordinate cross-functional proposal development and reporting with Programs, Finance, Communications, Operations, and Leadership.
• Ensure all submissions are timely, accurate, and reflect organizational values, priorities, and equity commitments.
• Maintain grant templates, institutional fundraising resources, and funder stewardship materials.
• Serve as a thought partner to Operations, ensuring data integrity, usability, governance, and reliable reporting.
• Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and tracking systems that support fundraising, grants management, leadership, board reporting, and organizational learning.
• Collaborate with program teams to collect, analyze, and communicate meaningful qualitative and quantitative outcomes.
• Co-design program surveys, evaluation tools, and data collection processes that strengthen learning, accountability, youth-centered impact measurement, and storytelling.
• Translate complex data into clear insights and compelling narratives for funders, leadership, board members, and external stakeholders.
• Support fundraising campaigns and organizational events through sponsorship tracking, invitation management, revenue monitoring, and reporting.
• Coordinate event registrations, attendance tracking, sponsorship fulfillment, and donor engagement data.
• Develop post-event analyses measuring fundraising outcomes, participation, and community engagement.
• Support annual fundraising planning through revenue forecasting, prospect research, pipeline analysis, and stewardship tracking.
• Provide direct supervision, coaching, and ongoing professional development to the Development Coordinator.
• Identify opportunities to improve grants management, fundraising operations, reporting workflows, and cross-department coordination.

Director of Philanthropy – Community Engagement

Grant and Impact Manager