Women Donors Network

Community Manager

• Lead a comprehensive fundraising strategy with annual giving, multi-year pledges, major gifts, legacy giving, rapid response, and collaborative funding partnerships in alignment with WDN/A’s financial model and long-term revenue goals.
• Cultivate, solicit, steward, and personally close major gifts (including six and seven figure commitments), maintaining a personal portfolio of members.
• Build and sustain a bold, joyful, relational fundraising culture that frames fundraising as mission-aligned work and strengthens confidence across staff, our Boards, and members.
• Develop and implement moves-management systems that deepen donor relationships, strengthen retention, and support meaningful, personalized stewardship for individual and institutional members.
• Lead WDN/A’s member community growth strategy with strategic efforts to double our growth of individual and institutional members.
• Serve as primary staff lead on our two Boards’ Fundraising Committees, which often meet jointly, and provide leadership, guidance, and tools to help board members successfully meet their fundraising goals.
• Provide strategic fundraising partnership to incubated initiatives (one of our grantmaking vehicles), ensuring they are effectively positioned for donor engagement within WDN/A’s broader revenue strategy.
• Collaborate closely with the Communications Team to shape, maintain, and update donor and member-facing materials and other fundraising tools.
• Partner cross-functionally with other stakeholder teams (Communications, Learning & Impact, Politics & Advocacy, and Finance) to ensure aligned messaging, narrative cohesion, and coordinated donor engagement.
• Lead WDN/A’s membership strategy, across the membership lifecycle (recruitment, onboarding, renewal, stewardship, and offboarding) for both individual and institutional members, ensuring a seamless and compelling membership experience.
• Partner with the Learning & Impact Team to cultivate a membership culture rooted in belonging, growth, accountability, and principled solidarity.
• Develop and refine strategies to source, attract, and steward new values-aligned members to WDN/A.
• Strengthen programs, gatherings, and engagement opportunities that support members’ political, personal, and philanthropic journeys.
• Design and analyze the annual membership survey (with operational management by a Manager), ensuring insights drive membership strategy and alignment across the organization.
• Strengthen regional engagement and activation through regional gatherings, leadership pathways, and community structures that deepen connection and action.
• Serve as primary staff lead to the Boards’ Member Engagement Committee, supporting member activation and governance alignment.
• Leverage power mapping (data and relationship insights) to understand member interests, capacities, and expertise, connecting them to meaningful opportunities to lead, give, and mobilize through WDN/A.
• Collaborate with WDN Action and cross-functional partners to support mobilization efforts, donor activation, and regional organizing.
• Partner with other team leaders to ensure alignment across member engagement, development, and programmatic initiatives across WDN/A.
• Lead, coach, and manage a Community & Development team of four, providing strategic vision, clarity, accountability, and coaching.
• Foster an inclusive, relational, values-driven team culture grounded in communication, collaboration, and excellence in shared outcomes.
• Partner with the President & CEO and Management Team on organizational planning, budgeting, fundraising strategy, membership strategy, and cross-functional execution.
• Model courageous communication, transparent decision-making, and solutions-oriented leadership.

Vice President – Community and Development

• The Community and Development Associate provides coordination and project support for WDN/A’s member growth and action opportunities that support members in maximizing their potential and capacity as donor activists. This role ensures seamless coordination of member programs, events, and processes so that WDN/A’s members connect, grow, and mobilize together while engaging with WDN and WDN Action. The Community and Development Associate is a detail-oriented project manager who engages with people from diverse communities and backgrounds. They support fundraising and the member experience, including the management of systems for the Community and Development Team.
• ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
• MEMBERSHIP COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
• Co-create a strong, supportive membership community culture, inclusive of multi-racial, multi-generational members, that encourages members in their journey to learn, grow, and take action.
• Coordinate member engagement programs and events to deepen member connections to each other and the membership community.
• Connect with members to guide and provide direction by fielding scheduling requests, responding to member questions, and acting as a resource for members.
• Manage participant communications before, during, and after community programs and events, including confirming and tracking attendance, answering questions, and sending follow-up messages.
• Provide logistical and administrative support for community programs, including regional events, new member onboarding, the annual conference, and other community-based gatherings.
• Create meeting materials, including meeting agendas, slides, reminder emails, and post-meeting recaps.
• DEVELOPMENT OPERATIONS
• Coordinate and track new member onboarding and offboarding processes, including sending member gifts and our welcome email series.
• Manage and update member wiki pages, including uploading call recordings and notes, adding/removing members, and updating meeting dates/resources.
• Collaborate with the Finance Team to reconcile member contributions to ensure accurate record keeping.
• Coordinate and manage the prospective member onboarding process, including updating recruitment materials, sending event invitations and scheduling discovery calls.
• Collaborate with the Vice President of Community and Development to support and manage the tracking of member solicitations and engagement.
• Manage data entry and analysis of membership and fundraising in Salesforce CRM, ensuring accurate and up-to-date information is maintained and tracked.
• Create reports for the Community and Development Team that provide donor segmentation and analysis of prospective members, current members, and renewals.
• TEAM ENGAGEMENT
• Build and sustain a culture of collaboration, communication, excellence and accountability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners on annual planning, strategy, budgeting, and other relevant organization-wide initiatives.
• Participate in team meetings and projects, sharing insights, providing thoughtful feedback, and collaborating with colleagues to achieve shared goals.
• Follow organizational standards and ensure timely completion of responsibilities.
• Support onboarding and training of new members.
• Seek opportunities for professional growth through training, workshops, and self-directed learning.
• Contribute to organizational success by continuously learning about industry trends and best practices, updating practices and approaches.