About this role
Role Overview
- Lead 4-5 client teams while overseeing the work of junior staff.
- Develop and implement comprehensive institutional fundraising strategies in close partnership with clients.
- Ensure prospect research, cultivation, solicitation, and grant calendar management deliverables are completed on time and at a high quality.
- Manage early career development professionals.
- Draft select proposals, reports, LOIs, and concept papers.
Requirements
- At least four years of experience or comparable experience with the key tasks and responsibilities listed.
- Demonstrated ability to meet the key competencies for the role.
- Strong institutional fundraising strategies for clients that work in at least two issue areas or funder landscapes.
- Exemplary, strengths-based writing skills.
- Command of program design sufficient to guide clients in developing competitive funding proposals.
- Comfortable with budgets, basic program evaluation, and other common grant attachments.
- Ability to research well-aligned funding opportunities for different organizational needs.
- Team management skills including task delegation and oversight, consistent and timely feedback.
- Problem-solving skills to address common barriers to fundraising success.
- Independent presentation of complex problems, goals, and ideas.
Benefits
- Health insurance: On average, Elevate pays over 94% of the medical premium, 80% of the dental premium, and 80% of the vision premium for employees only.
- Dependent coverage is the full responsibility of individual employees.
- Paid time off: 15 days’ vacation, 8 sick days, 12 company holidays, 24 hours of voting leave and civic engagement leave.
- Winter Break: The office typically closes in the last week of the calendar year (between December 24 and January 2nd). Employees can choose to take the full break or apply some of this time for religious observance days (up to three) at other times of the year.
- Summer Break : The office typically closes the first week of July.
- Sabbatical Leave: Staff with six years of FT service or more are eligible for a 4-week (21 day) paid sabbatical.
- 401(k) retirement plan
- We offer a 2% employer match after the first year of employment.
- Reimbursements for your personal cell phone and home internet
- A $200 initial office set up stipend with an additional $100 stipend annually
- A $500 annual professional development stipend, in addition to a robust and growing internal training program provided free to staff.