SENIOR DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
- Employer
- Urgent Action Fund
- Location
- California, United States
- Salary
- Competitive Salary
- Closing date
- Dec 10, 2021
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- Position Type
- Fundraising, Donor Relations, Fundraising Administration, Major Gifts, Planned Giving, Other Fundraising
- Fields
- Community Development, Other Fields
- Employment Type
- Full Time
SENIOR DEVELOPMENT OFFICER
REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIPS
LOCATION: REMOTE
CLOSING DATE: OPEN UNTIL FILLED
The Organization: Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights
Centered on a groundbreaking model of rapid response grantmaking, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights (UAF) supports the urgent needs of courageous women, trans, and gender non-binary human rights defenders around the world in times of crisis or opportunity. Our model protects and advances the civil, political, and social rights of women and LGBTI people, and invests in the resilience of social justice movements, including environmental, feminist, indigenous, land rights, youth, and LGBTI movements. Founded in 1997, UAF is a member of a network of four independent “Sister Funds'' that collectively support frontline women’s rights activists around the world. UAF’s work, within this network, centers on support for feminist activists and social movements in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Europe and Central Asia, and the United States and Canada.
The Position: Senior Development Officer
As part of the external fundraising team, the Senior Development Officer leads and strengthens the design and implementation of UAF’s resource development work in alignment with the principles of just and community centric philanthropic frameworks.
In coordination with the Director of Partnerships, the SDO will be responsible for developing, cultivating, and maintaining strong relationships, primarily but not exclusively, with individual donors, foundation partners, professional advisors, and other representatives to engage individuals, foundations, and corporations in charitable giving, and to help drive revenue opportunities for Urgent Action Fund.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Help design and manage philanthropic
engagement strategies to further UAF’s goals, mission, and vision
with individual, institutional, and government funders
Manage cultivation, solicitation, and
stewardship plans and activities for all donors.
Help identify, develop, and drive
revenue opportunities
Hold a portfolio of individual,
institutional, and government funders for stewardship, cultivation,
and fundraising
Annual Giving: Individuals:
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Help design and manage prospect
research, moves management, and portfolio management processes
Manage a personal portfolio of
donors, building close relationships and soliciting annual,
multi-year, and planned gifts
Design and manage a portfolio
management process for volunteers, board, and staff to build close
relationships and solicit annual, multi-year, and planned
gifts
Support the design and implementation
of individual giving strategies
Project lead all individual giving
campaigns & appeals
Annual Giving: Institutions:
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Support and maintain grants
management processes and projects, including ensuring deadlines are
met for proposals, reporting, and renewals
Identify, research, and maintain
process and outreach to prospective funders
Development Operations:
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Manage and lead the development of
donor resources and communication materials
Support and guide Development Staff’s
donor operations processes
Identify and execute strategies for
prospect research and moves management
Liaison to external internship
program - managing intern projects
CAPACITIES:
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Shares UAF’s values: integrity,
feminisms, wellbeing, justice, courage and mindful engagement
A critical understanding of and deep
commitment to feminism, social justice, and human rights issues
facing women, trans, gender non-binary, and intersex people
Is emotionally intelligent,
comfortable working across cultures and time zones, team-oriented
and works collaboratively and respectfully with multiple
stakeholders including UAF staff, partners, and external
consultants
Takes initiative, shows
resourcefulness and has strong critical thinking, multi-tasking,
and problem-solving skills
Able to thrive in a fast-paced
environment managing competing priorities and reprioritizing tasks
as needed
Works methodically with attention to
detail and sensitivity to confidential information and security
concerns
Is able to receive and act on
constructive feedback and demonstrates robust interpersonal
skills
Thrives in a small team environment
with a highly participatory and consensus-driven culture
QUALIFICATIONS:
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Minimum of 4-7 years of relevant
experience in fundraising, nonprofit development, or resource
mobilization
Knowledge and familiarity with
fundraising and grant seeking processes and procedures
Subject expertise and past activism
and/or lived experience related to environmental and climate
justice, racial justice, or disability justice preferred
Experience in navigating fundraising
platforms (CRMs, Stripe Payment Processing, Fundraising portals and
platforms) and an ability to apply functional use to new tools
Detailed knowledge of and
demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Google
applications for example Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Drive,
Sheets, Docs, Slides
Exceptional written and oral
communication skills in English and an ability to distill complex
and detailed information into an accessible and approachable
writing and verbal communication style
Practical expertise in project
management and constituent engagement
Experience with and/or knowledge of
fundraising principles, practices and frameworks.
Ability to travel domestically and
internationally as required
COMPENSATION:
This position is full-time (32 hours per week as UAF has a 4-day workweek) and is exempt. This position is remote, with a preference for candidates who are in or could relocate to New York, New York should in-person work resume.
UAF is committed to paying competitive wages and upholding sustainable equity practices. Due to the ways in which salary negotiations perpetuate existing structural inequities, UAF as a practice does not participate in a salary negotiation process for any candidate. We will make our best offer, and it will be the same regardless of the candidate. The annual starting salary for the Senior Officer role is $94,950 and includes a strong benefits package (health, dental, retirement, flex spending for medical and transit, HRA, holistic wellness benefits, communication reimbursement, and competitive PTO package).
How to Apply
Please email a cover letter, resume, and list of three references (candidates will be notified in advance of any outreach to their references) to employment@urgentactionfund.org, with “Senior Development Officer” in the subject line. This position will be open until filled and we encourage candidates to submit their materials as soon as possible. Please submit PDF or Microsoft Word files only, preferably with all materials in one combined file. Resume reviews begin immediately and only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. No phone calls please.
Urgent Action Fund is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service or other non-merit factors. In order to build the strongest possible workforce, UAF actively seeks a diverse applicant pool. No relocation costs will be covered for this position. Applicants must be eligible to work in the United States.
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