Capital Campaign Director

Role Overview

• Refine and implement a multi-phase campaign strategy from quiet phase cultivation through public launch and close.
• Align campaign calendar with CR’s programmatic, construction, and fiscal timelines.
• Track benchmarks, manage campaign budget, and report progress to key internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate consultants, advisors, and a Capital Campaign committee; assess overall campaign capacity and design.
• Develop annual fundraising plans and materials aligned with CR’s values, voice, and vision.
• Facilitate internal coordination and documentation across campaign staff, volunteers, and systems.
• Build and manage a portfolio of donors and funders giving $10K+ in one-time or multi-year commitments.
• Cultivate and solicit major individual and institutional gifts—including recoverable or blended capital where aligned.
• Coach and support CR staff, campaign committee, and volunteers in donor engagement and asks.
• Manage donor systems, acknowledgements, pledges, and grant proposals and reports.
• Collaborate on donor storytelling and events that highlight the campaign’s transformative impact.
• Cultivate a campaign culture grounded in CR’s abolitionist principles: collective care, accountability, and shared power.
• Represent CR and BPP in philanthropic, community finance, and movement-building spaces.
• Support documentation that uplifts BPP’s broader field impact and long-term strategic significance.
• Bridge CR with aligned fields (solidarity economy, community capital, and governance innovation.

Requirements

• 5–7+ years of fundraising experience, including 3+ years in capital campaigns or major gifts
• Demonstrated success leading/co-leading multi-stakeholder fundraising and securing six-figure+ gifts
• Strong relationship-building across philanthropic and movement spaces
• Creative, values-aligned approach to capital strategy and narrative positioning
• Effective communicator and collaborator with strong writing, planning, and prioritization skills
• Comfort working in CRM systems (Salesforce a plus); experience managing campaign budgets and tracking systems
• Experience supporting or supervising fundraising staff, volunteers, or campaign committees
• Familiarity with integrated-capital strategies (e.g. grants, major gifts, recoverable capital, public/private partnerships) is a plus
• Deep commitment to prison industrial complex abolition; ability to learn and articulate CR’s mission and values
• Personal qualities: diligence, humility, integrity, emotional intelligence, and self-direction
• Confidence operating as a visible campaign leader while honoring collective leadership and grassroots values.

Benefits

• Generous benefits package
• Flexible PTO plan