Vice President – Community and Development
Women Donors Network
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $220,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
MacOS
About the role
- 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.
Requirements
- 10+ years of nonprofit fundraising experience with organizations of a comparable size
- Deep expertise in major gifts and donor acquisition and retention strategies, with demonstrated success leading successful fundraising campaigns that inspire generosity
- Commitment to WDN’s mission and values, and experience in at least two of WDN’s funding priorities
- Proven track record successfully cultivating, soliciting, and closing multi-tier donors, including six and seven figure gifts
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to speak plainly, directly, and with emotional intelligence across multiracial, multigenerational audiences and donor communities
- Proficiency with fundraising CRMs (Salesforce is preferred), as well as, Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, and MacOS
- Experience in social-justice-aligned 501(c)(3)/501(c)(4) organizations and/or membership networks is strongly preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (paid by WDN at 100% for employees and 80% for dependents)
- 401K Contribution (4% of your gross pay contributed by WDN and an additional 3% match of your gross pay)
- 20 Vacation Days, 14 Sick Days and 14 Company Holidays
- Partial Reimbursement of Your Internet and Phone Expenses for your home office
- Financial Support for Learning and Professional Development Opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
fundraising strategymajor giftsdonor acquisitiondonor retentionmoves-management systemsmembership strategydata analysiscampaign managementcommunity engagementstrategic planning
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationleadershipemotional intelligencecoachingrelationship buildingstrategic visionaccountabilityinclusivityproblem-solving