Director of Development, Legal Justice Research
- Employer
- Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System at the Univ. of Denver
- Location
- Colorado, United States
- Salary
- $120,000.00 - $140,000.00
- Closing date
- May 26, 2022
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- Position Type
- Fundraising, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Grant Seeking, Major Gifts, Membership, Planned Giving, Prospect Research
- Fields
- Academic Centers, Legal Services, Research
- Employment Type
- Full Time
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IAALS
The Institute for the Advancement of
the American Legal System, is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research
institution at the University of Denver that is committed to
increasing fairness, efficiency, accessibility, and the public’s
faith in the civil justice system.
People look to our justice system for
relief in matters that affect their rights, their businesses, and
the most intimate aspects of their lives; however, barriers and
inefficiencies are effectively denying them real access. IAALS
empowers judges, lawyers, businesspeople, and everyday users to put
the best ideas into practice. Relying on real-time data to inform
real-world solutions, IAALS is changing how our system serves
people today while anticipating future needs working tirelessly to
increase access to justice.
Our Work
IAALS works on solving problems within
the legal system: both in the courts and in the delivery of legal
services more broadly. We conduct comprehensive analysis and work
with stakeholders to design models, empower decision-makers, and
measure outcomes and impacts to advance a trusted American legal
system.
A trusted and trustworthy legal system
is essential to our democracy, our economy, and our freedom. But,
the American legal system is in a state of unprecedented change and
challenge. Some 80 percent of Americans have legal needs that go
unmet. Some 76 percent of state civil cases have a litigant on at
least one side without lawyer representation. Businesses routinely
choose arbitration rather than using the courts, jury trials are
disappearing, and public confidence in our legal system is low.
Justice, the courts, and legal
services must be accessible, and they are not. But IAALS is
changing that. The problems are complex and multi-dimensional, and
we are committed to comprehensive, balanced, and inclusive
solutions across the American legal system. IAALS has ongoing
projects in the areas of judicial reform, civil justice reform,
family justice reform, legal education, and reregulation of the
legal profession.
We encourage applicants to learn more
about our work at iaals.du.edu.
Position Summary
The Director of Development (DoD)
reports to the Senior Director of Operations with dotted line
reporting to the CEO. This position establishes and manages a
fundraising infrastructure within the organization that engages
various departments, board members and advisors. The position also
develops and implements fundraising strategies by identifying,
qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding various sources
of philanthropic support. Employee ensures that fund development
activities align with IAALS’ mission and strategic vision.
Essential Functions
- Create and implement fundraising strategies for annual giving, major gifts, planned giving, events, sponsorship opportunities, and foundation grants.
- Identify and qualify an expanding pool of individual, government, foundations, funders, and corporate sponsors.
- Develop and manage a fundraising infrastructure that supports various giving strategies, stewardship, and donor data management activities.
- Communicate with DU Advancement staff.
- Work with Communications staff to create messaging for fundraising collateral, social media, video, and print communications to expand both local and national awareness of IAALS.
- Establish and encourage an internal fundraising culture among staff, board members, advisors through board and committee reporting and offering meaningful engagement.
- Create and facilitate naming, sponsorship, membership, and fee for service opportunities to attract and retain members, partners, donors, funders, and supporters.
- Manage support staff and contract labor.
- Ability to represent IAALS and the University in a variety of capacities, through excellent spoken, and written communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to prioritize, negotiate, influence, and motivate groups and individuals.
- Maturity, sound judgment, sensitivity to others and high ethical standards with the ability to build productive relationships with philanthropic individuals, corporations, and foundations, as well as the University's leadership.
- Ability to empower and motivate team members to deliver on agreed upon performance metrics.
- Responsibility to remain informed on issues and concerns impacting IAALS and the legal community it serves.
- Responsibility to remain informed on economic, tax and philanthropic issues impacting fundraising strategies.
- Ability effectively identify and pursue new revenue opportunities and fundraising relationships.
- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum of eight (8) years of fundraising experience, with broad involvement working with major donors, annual giving, events, planned giving, memberships and foundation grants.
- Demonstrated track record in working collaboratively across organizational departments, as well as with internal and external stakeholders.
- Understanding of the development budget process, revenue forecasting and financial reporting.
- Experienced with donor data management software and experienced at data mining to identify potential philanthropic support.
- Knowledge and understanding of gift acceptance policies and procedures.
- Masters Degree - Preferred Field of Study: Nonprofit Management
- Fundraising experience in both large well-resourced shops and in small organizations with limited numbers of staff and small budgets, at senior leadership levels.
- Skilled at cultivating and stewarding relationships with diverse individuals, organizations, corporations, and communities.
- Experienced working with a CEO, leadership, and staff to facilitate the implementation of fundraising strategies.
- Experienced working with Communications staff to collaborate on creating fundraising collaterals, social media, videos, and other forms of fundraising tools.
- Experienced reporting to and working with a Board and other governing bodies.
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