Senior Director of Development

Neighborhood • Chesapeake, VA

4d • $105,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Neighborhood is building a new model for economic mobility by redesigning how opportunity, capital, and workforce systems align to create living wage career pathways. The organization aims to build a scalable model with 3 to 5 million dollars in annual revenue within the next three to five years to expand program capacity, deepen employer partnerships, strengthen capital resilience, and extend the Economic Access Initiative across the region. The Economic Access Initiative is Neighborhood’s strategy to align workforce systems, employers, capital, and community investment to increase income mobility at scale. With a 2026 revenue budget of 1.2 million dollars, Neighborhood is entering a defining stage of growth and seeks a Senior Director of Development to build the capital engine required for this next chapter. This is a hands-on senior leadership role inside a growth-stage organization preparing for regional scale.

Requirements

• 7 or more years of senior-level fundraising leadership experience within nonprofit or mission-driven organizations
• Demonstrated success securing five and six figure gifts
• Experience managing a major donor portfolio
• Strong strategic planning and forecasting capability
• Comfort operating without a large internal development team
• Alignment with dignity-centered, systems-aware approaches to economic mobility

Nice To Haves

• Experience in growth-stage or entrepreneurial organizations preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of a multi-year fundraising strategy aligned with organizational expansion.
• Build annual fundraising plans with clear growth targets.
• Lead revenue forecasting and dashboard reporting.
• Align fundraising pacing with organizational growth priorities.
• Identify capital gaps and help develop strategies to address them.
• Design and lead a major donor program capable of supporting scale.
• Manage a personal portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects.
• Secure new major gifts and multi-year commitments.
• Build and manage a strong pipeline of qualified major donor prospects.
• Partner closely with the CEO on top-tier cultivation and solicitation.
• Lead foundation strategy and grants calendar.
• Ensure competitive proposal development and reporting.
• Cultivate long-term foundation partnerships.
• Develop corporate philanthropic partnerships aligned with mission and systems change.
• Oversee CRM integrity and moves management discipline.
• Strengthen donor segmentation and stewardship systems.
• Optimize fundraising systems already built.
• Leverage automation and external consultants strategically.
• Improve donor impact reporting and engagement cadence.
• Partner directly with the CEO to prioritize fundraising focus.
• Prepare the CEO for major donor meetings and solicitations.
• Help develop a board fundraising engagement strategy.
• Increase board participation and accountability in revenue growth efforts.
• Help evolve the organization’s case for support as Neighborhood scales.

Benefits

• Salary: $105,000
• Annual insurance stipend: $4,000
• Structured annual compensation increases, including performance-based step increases and cost-of-living adjustments
• PTO: 160 hours (20 days)
• Office closed the full week of Thanksgiving
• Office closed two full weeks at Christmas

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed