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Sun Valley Youth Center · 5 days ago

Director of Donor Development

Denver, CO

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$65K/yr - $65K/yr

5+ years exp

Sun Valley Youth Center is seeking a Director of Donor Development to design and implement a comprehensive donor relations and fund development plan. This role focuses on building donor trust, managing fundraising events, and ensuring effective stewardship of donors.

Primary/Secondary Education

Responsibilities

Plan, implement, evaluate a comprehensive Development and stewardship plan to build donor trust through consistent and meaningful contact

Plan a strategy for including major donors and the Board of Directors

Inform the ED, and Board of Directors of important information regarding corporations and major donors, i.e., birthdays, anniversaries, special accomplishments, in connection with cultivations and solicitations

Reporting on current fund development and donor cultivation efforts on a monthly basis (usually at the monthly board meetings, unless otherwise noted)

Develop SVYC corporate partnerships program and manage and expand portfolio of corporate funders

Reengage/recreate the resource development commit

Attend all required annual trainings, and opportunities

Attend annual workshops and opportunities for growth

Attend all training on management software used by the SVYC to ensure capacity to Manage the donor relations tools

Plan, organize all fundraising events for the Sun Valley Youth Center

Ensure that trustees and other major donors and donor prospects are included in appropriate events and are recognized for their service and generosity

Solicit vendors and sponsors for each of the Fundraising events, work along staff in acquiring the donations for upcoming fundraising events

Manage and improve the current donor recognition system, which includes coordination of phone calls, special correspondence, handwritten thank you notes and onsite tours

Manage stewardship plans for gifts, including donor recognition/stewardship, events, plaques, publicity plans, and customized reporting of gift impact

Lead and implement the annual year end giving campaign, or other campaigns as needed

Deposit checks and class on receipts and deposits spreadsheet

Support with donor data entry for new donors

Manage the email platform

Coordinate personalized opportunities for donors to visit the center

Manage SVYC corporate partnerships program

Scheduling donation pick ups

Develop and implement strategies for the cultivation and stewardship of current and prospective individual donors, including major donors and the Board of Directors

Plan and execute a series of annual fundraising appeals including Giving Tuesday and Colorado Gives Day

Conduct research on current and prospective individual donor

Scheduling donation pick ups

Oversee coordination and implementation of fundraising and cultivation events (Summer Fundraiser, Art Auction)

Supervise special event vendors and/or consultants, as needed

Partner with the SVYC Team to draft voice and content for external communications and donor messaging

Create and/or oversee the creation of donor communications, including donor newsletter, annual report, e-blasts, and fundraising appeals

Manage the calendar of ongoing donor communications

Oversee fundraising efforts on social media, including supervising consultants and/or staff, as needed

Maintain official social media accounts and engage with followers/build an online following

Stay up to date on program strategy and activities

Work with appropriate program staff to find funding for current needs

Design, implement and manage all systems and processes needed to carry out fundraising plans

Create and maintain policies and procedures for development operations, including fundraising communications, prospect research, moves management, and gift processing and acknowledgement

Oversee the management of SVYC fundraising database, establishing and implementing protocols for data entry and maintenance, and generating lists, exports, and reports

Lead the process for identifying and/or creating more efficient and integrated data management systems