[Hiring] Director @Elevate | Smart Grants for Powerful Social Change

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• At least four years of experience in institutional fundraising.
• Demonstrated ability to meet key competencies for the role.

Requirements

• Lead 4-5 client teams while overseeing the work of junior staff.
• Develop and implement comprehensive institutional fundraising strategies in close partnership with clients.
• Ensure prospect research, cultivation, solicitation, and grant calendar management deliverables are completed on time and at a consistently high quality.
• Manage early career development professionals eager to learn about institutional fundraising.
• Draft select proposals, reports, LOIs, and concept papers.
• Contribute positively to Elevate’s culture, commitment to equity and inclusion, and company values.

Benefits

• Annual salary of $72,500.
• Health insurance: Elevate pays over 94% of the medical premium, 80% of the dental premium, and 80% of the vision premium for employees only.
• Paid time off: 15 days’ vacation, 8 sick days, 12 company holidays, 24 hours of voting leave and civic engagement leave.
• Winter Break: Office typically closes in the last week of the calendar year.
• Summer Break: Office typically closes the first week of July.
• Sabbatical Leave: Eligible for a 4-week paid sabbatical after six years of full-time service.
• 401(k) retirement plan with a 2% employer match after the first year of employment.
• Reimbursements for personal cell phone and home internet.
• $200 initial office set up stipend and an additional $100 stipend annually.
• $500 annual professional development stipend.

Hiring Process

All applicants should apply via our Rippling hiring platform. You are asked to provide an updated resume, as well as a cover letter that should detail the following:

• Relevant skills and experience.
• Your interest in the position and advancing in your career at Elevate.
• Your professional strengths.
• Evidence of your alignment with our company values.

Based on these materials, a hiring manager will contact you with next steps on a rolling basis. Applicants whose experiences and qualifications are strongly aligned with the position will be asked to complete a hiring exercise designed to assess your fundraising strategy and grant writing skills, as well as an interview process that will include at least two interviews prior to final decisions.

We accept applications and hire on a rolling basis that is aligned with our staffing needs for new clients and projects. This process can take anywhere from one to three months from application to start date. Additionally, we use Rippling to communicate with our applicants throughout the hiring process.

If you require reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for any part of the application process, please contact [email protected].