Director

Elevate | Smart Grants for Powerful Social Change

About The Position

For this role, Elevate seeks skilled institutional fundraising professionals with the confidence, flexibility, and persistence to coach clients on best-practices in fundraising strategy, grant writing, financials, and program evaluation while overseeing junior staff who produce compelling proposals and manage detailed grants calendars. Directors work independently to oversee 5-6 client teams at a time. They meet regularly with a dedicated Supervisor to report progress toward client goals, request support managing their teams, and to identify potential obstacles to a successful long-term client partnership for Elevate’s Client Services department. Strong candidates have at least four years of experience or comparable experience with the key tasks and responsibilities listed below and demonstrated ability to meet the key competencies for the role.

Requirements

At least four years of experience or comparable experience with the key tasks and responsibilities listed
Demonstrated ability to meet the key competencies for the role
Develop and clearly articulate strong institutional fundraising strategies for clients that work in at least two issue areas or funder landscapes
Exemplary, strengths-based writing skills
Work to understand the root causes of the challenges facing your client organizations' beneficiaries
Command of program design sufficient to guide clients in the development of competitive funding proposals, even for programs and interventions that are new to you
Comfort with budgets, basic program evaluation, and other common grant attachments
Efficiently research well-aligned funding opportunities for different organizational needs
Support the cultivation of funders with concise cultivation emails and talking points that demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the funding landscape and individual funder's interests
Work effectively with your teams and clients to maintain accurate, comprehensive, and regularly updated Salesforce records that support high quality grant calendars and data analysis
Demonstrate standard management skills which includes all standard Elevate processes (1:1s, task delegation, and oversight), consistent and timely feedback, and proactive approach to solving problems within the team
Identify potential performance challenges on your teams and discuss them with your supervisor
Facilitate an inclusive environment that’s welcoming to all
Support team members who identify incomplete, inaccurate, or inconsistent program information that impacts the quality of our grants, helping to identify problems and develop solutions collaboratively
Check-in regularly with team members to ensure work products are on track for a timely submission and plan for contingencies in which needed information, data, or reviews are unavailable
Comfortable addressing or adapting your strategy to common barriers to fundraising success, including, for example, minimal impact data or evaluation practices, weaknesses in organizational program/project budgeting, and limited staff capacity
Independently present complex problems, goals, and ideas in a way that is accessible even to those unfamiliar with Elevate's work, such as program, finance, and evaluation staff
Introduce client points of contact to best-practices in fundraising strategy, budget development, measurement and evaluation, and organizational planning/sustainability
Proactively identify potential obstacles in the Elevate/Client relationship and work with a supervisor to address them
Support your team while consistently delivering on projects, and communicate promptly to set expectations appropriately
Accountable for the quality and timeliness of all work products you deliver to the client
Independently implement an efficient and effective system for tracking and updating information relevant to your work
Independently identify information and data needs and fill them by finding what you need in Elevate's information systems (Dropbox, Salesforce, Google Groups, etc.), asking targeted questions in internal check-ins, and reaching out directly to the client
Recommend new tools and systems to better track information and data on your client teams
Accountable for all details in your team's work products
Catch details that other team members have overlooked or included in error
Adhere to and consistently use Elevate's standard tools and systems
Know what information is logged in Salesforce by default and what information can be logged by request
Proactively request feedback from others and are open to continuous constructive feedback
Consistently deliver useful feedback on both overall performance and specific deliverables to your peers and manager in a way that strengthens relationships and enables projects to advance more efficiently or effectively

Responsibilities

Lead 4-5 client teams while overseeing the work of junior staff
Develop and implement comprehensive institutional fundraising strategies in close partnership with clients that establish short- and long-term goals, prospecting priorities, and systems for cultivation and stewardship
Lean on impeccable project management skills to ensure prospect research, cultivation, solicitation, and grand calendar management deliverables are completed on time and at a consistently high quality for each client
Manage early career development professionals who are eager to learn from you about institutional fundraising
Draft select proposals, reports, LOIs, and concept papers to ensure highly strategic writing on the most complex deliverables
Contribute positively to Elevate’s culture, commitment to equity and inclusion, and company values

Benefits

Flexible work schedule
Health insurance: On average, Elevate pays over 94% of the medical premium, 80% of the dental premium, and 80% of the vision premium for employees only. Dependent coverage is the full responsibility of individual employees.
15 days’ vacation
8 sick days
12 company holidays
24 hours of voting leave and civic engagement leave
Winter Break: The office typically closes in the last week of the calendar year (between December 24 and January 2nd). Employees can choose to take the full break or apply some of this time for religious observance days (up to three) at other times of the year.
Summer Break : The office typically closes the first week of July.
Sabbatical Leave: Staff with six years of FT service or more are eligible for a 4-week (21 day) paid sabbatical.
401(k) retirement plan- We offer a 2% employer match after the first year of employment.
Reimbursements for your personal cell phone and home internet
A $200 initial office set up stipend with an additional $100 stipend annually
A $500 annual professional development stipend, in addition to a robust and growing internal training program provided free to staff.