Director of Development
threadBaltimore, MD
Director of Development
We're hiring: Director of Development at ThreadAt Thread, we believe relationships change lives. Every young person we serve is surrounded by a community of volunteers, collaborators, and staff who show up, again and again, for years. Now we're looking for a fundraising leader to help us grow that work.
About the role:
The Director of Development will own Thread's fundraising strategy and system across individual giving, foundations, corporations, and government funding. Reporting to our EVP of Involvement, you'll:
- Build and carry out annual and multi-year fundraising strategies alongside the CEO and senior leadership
- Manage a portfolio of donors and prospects, from cultivation and solicitation through stewardship
- Lead and coach a development team covering grants, prospect research, proposals, and donor communications
- Partner with our Board and volunteers to grow our fundraising capacity
- Use data and real stories from our community to show impact and inspire investment
- Who we're looking for 5+ years of progressively responsible fundraising leadership, with a record of closing major gifts, foundation grants, and corporate partnerships
- Experience designing comprehensive strategies that produce measurable growth
- A leader who coaches people well and builds systems that last
- Comfort with CRM platforms (Salesforce preferred) and turning data into action
- A relationship-centered leader who lives our core competencies: Show all the way up, Fail forward, Treat relationships as wealth, and Learn from all voices
If you love building lasting relationships with partners and want your work to hold up young people and the communities around them, we'd love to meet you.
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