Director of Philanthropy & Community Engagement
About The Position
WellPower envisions a community where every person’s mental health is fostered through strength, resilience and hope. We empower people to overcome barriers and achieve lasting well-being through collaborative behavioral health care and comprehensive support. Our Guiding Principles: Person Centered. We honor people’s identities, lived experience and journeys and treat every person with the dignity we all deserve. Exceptional Care. We offer compassionate, innovative services that meet people where they are, from immediate support to long-term recovery. Integrity. We operate from a deep foundation of ethical, accountable practices in all we do. Organizational Resilience. We meet the moment and adapt to changing contexts with collaborative creativity, agile business processes, and financial stewardship. Position Summary: Provide strategic leadership for WellPower’s integrated philanthropy and community engagement efforts, building a high-performing, cross-functional program that generates $1M in annual philanthropic revenue while achieving 5–8% year-over-year growth. This role ensures fundraising, donor engagement, and community partnerships are aligned with WellPower’s strategic priorities and long-term financial sustainability, strengthens donor relationships and retention, advances mission-aligned community engagement centered on lived experience, and delivers clear, data-informed outcomes through effective leadership, external representation, and compelling impact storytelling.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in nonprofit management, communications, political science, public policy, or related field.
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling a philanthropy function from the ground up to secure meaningful, mission-advancing revenue.
- 5 years of demonstrated leadership experience supervising teams across core fundraising functions.
Responsibilities
- Lead a comprehensive fundraising program generating $1M in annual philanthropic revenue, representing approximately 1% of total organizational revenue, and will deliver 5–8% year-over-year growth while strengthening donor retention, major gift performance, and long-term sustainability of the donor pipeline.
- Lead and supervise cross-functional staff advancing fundraising, donor engagement, grant development, and mission-aligned community engagement.
- Oversee team budgets and philanthropic revenue forecasting in partnership with executive leadership and Finance, ensuring alignment with fundraising goals and performance targets.
- Ensure fundraising, donor engagement, and community initiatives are aligned with WellPower’s strategic priorities and long-term financial sustainability
- Represent WellPower with funders, donors, corporations, and community partners to advance strategic relationships and organizational growth.
- Develop and deliver strategic presentations and materials for executive leadership, the Board, funders, and external partners highlighting fundraising priorities, donor engagement, and organizational impact.
- Set clear team objectives grounded in WellPower’s guiding principles and uses metrics, dashboards, and performance indicators to drive sustained results.
- Connect community impact to philanthropy through clear, compelling narratives.
- Oversee organizational partnerships and community engagement strategies that center lived experience and reciprocal partnership.
- Maintain a trauma informed environment of wellbeing.
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- For complete overview of our robust Benefits: https://wellpower.org/workplace-of-choice/
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
