Director of Development & Communications

Uproot Talent

1d • $90,000 - $110,000 • Remote

About The Position

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director of Development & Communications will design and drive fundraising and communications strategy, steward donor relationships, and build the systems needed to sustain and grow the Village’s impact, raising $1.2M+ annually.

Requirements

• Mission & Values Alignment. You believe in New Seneca Village’s mission to provide restorative residency experiences that invite leaders and healers to access expansive resources—time, space, nature, community, and consciousness—to sustain their collective visioning for a just future.
• Institutional & Individual Giving Strategy. You bring a strong understanding of the philanthropic landscape and engage institutional funders and individual donors across the full lifecycle from prospecting and cultivation to solicitation and stewardship, building trusted, values-aligned partnerships that sustain and grow long-term revenue.
• Strategic Storytelling & Communications Leadership. You communicate with clarity and intention; crafting compelling grant proposals, Village and donor specific communications, and narratives that resonate across audiences, honor lived experience, and strengthen alignment and shared purpose around the Village’s mission and values.
• Entrepreneurial Leadership. You bring a builder mindset and implementer hands to a growth-stage organization, strengthening and operationalizing existing systems, navigating ambiguity, and moving between vision and execution to drive scale and impact.
• Proactive Project Management. You take initiative and own projects from start to finish, building clear roadmaps, anticipating needs, coordinating across stakeholders, and managing timelines, details, and follow-through to ensure consistent, high-quality execution across multiple priorities.
• Data-Informed Strategy & Continuous Learning. You ground your work in data, research, and feedback, using analysis and due diligence to inform decisions, identify patterns, and make strategic recommendations that strengthen fundraising, communications, and engagement over time.
• Collaborator & Co-Creator. You are a trusted and collaborative partner who co-creates with leadership; bringing thoughtful perspective, aligning around a shared vision, and moving work forward with both independence and accountability in service of the Village’s mission and long-term goals.
• Restoration & Healing-Centered Leadership. You embody and steward restoration, connection, and visioning not as side practices, but as foundational leadership modalities.
• Executional Range & Depth. You operate fluidly across levels of work, contributing to both high-level strategy and the tactical execution required to bring it to life. You approach the work without hierarchy or ego—willing to lead vision-setting while also stepping into coordination, logistics, and detail-oriented tasks as needed to ensure momentum, cohesion, and results.

Responsibilities

• Drive Institutional and Individual Giving Strategy
• Fundraising Strategy. Lead a multi-year fundraising strategy to secure $800K annually and grow toward a $1.2M+ budget by 2029, in alignment with the Executive Director’s $50M Legacy vision.
• Operationalize Internal Infrastructure. Strengthen and operationalize internal infrastructure, including processes, timelines, and cross-functional workflows, to align fundraising and communications and enable consistent, coordinated execution at scale.
• Cultivate & Grow Strategic Donor Partnerships
• Donor Cultivation. Build and steward a strategic portfolio of institutional funders, leading prospecting, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship to drive sustained revenue growth.
• Grant Writing & Reporting. Lead research, development, and submission of aligned grant opportunities, and oversee reporting to ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
• Funder Events. Design and lead funder gatherings and experiences, including events, convenings, and site visits, that deepen relationships, bring the Village’s work to life, and move funders toward increased and sustained investment.
• Lead Communications & Narrative Stewardship
• Communications Strategy. Design and lead an integrated communications strategy across newsletters, media, social platforms, and community outreach to elevate the Village’s visibility, positioning, and impact.
• Storytelling & Narrative Translation. Gather and synthesize insights from residencies, Villagers, and alumni, and translate them into clear, compelling and values aligned narratives that connect the Village’s work to funders and external audiences.
• Communications Execution & Delivery. Drive the planning and execution of all communications, including content development, editorial calendars, timelines, and distribution, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment across channels.
• Support Core Program Delivery & Experience
• Core Offerings Support. Show up as an all-hands-on-deck team member during residencies and core offerings, contributing across facilitation support, participant experience, and logistics to ensure a seamless, restorative, and meaningful experience.

Benefits

• Possibility Labs provides a comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, and dental coverage effective on your start date, a 401(k) retirement plan, and generous paid time off comprising 20 vacation days, 14 standard holidays, 2 personal days, and 12 sick days annually.
• In addition to the PL package, New Seneca Village offers a profoundly restorative work environment, including 15 vacation days aligned with our residency calendar and three weeklong holiday breaks each year to support collective rest and renewal.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees