Director Development
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ABOUT PER SCHOLAS:
For 30 years Per Scholas has been on a mission to drive mobility and opportunity in the everadvancing technology landscape by unlocking the untapped potential of individuals uplifting communities and meeting the needs of employers through rigorous tech training. By teaming up with dynamic employer partners ranging from Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups were forging inclusive tech talent pipelines fulfilling an everincreasing need for skilled talent. With national remote training and campuses in 20 cities and counting Per Scholas offers nocost training programs in the most soughtafter tech skills spanning Cloud Cybersecurity Data Engineering IT Support Software Engineering and more. To date 30000 individuals have been trained through Per Scholas propelling their professional trajectories into highgrowth tech careers with salaries three times higher than their pretraining earnings. Learn more by visiting PerScholas.organd follow us on LinkedIn X Facebook Instagram and YouTube.
POSITION TITLE: Director of Development Chicago
LOCATION: Chicago IL
REPORTS TO: Managing Director Chicago Campus
OVERVIEW:
Per Scholas is seeking a Director of Development to become a member of the Chicago Campus team. You will hold key responsibilities in funder relations corporate engagement grant writing individual giving and organizational storytelling for a diverse local funding portfolio. The role will specialize in revenueraising with a primary focus on the Chicago Campus. This position is part of a dynamic team of program professionals and will work closely with the Chicago Managing Director as well as the National Development team to meet our revenue targets and grow our programs throughout the region.
The Chicago campus will expand its impact significantly over the next few years fueled by a substantial increase in revenue. Guided by a strategic plan the team seeks to grow enrollment from its current 150 learners to 500 learners annually by 2030 with a local operating budget of $55.25 million.
WHAT YOULL DO:
- In partnership with regional development and campus teams provide input on and implement a strategic fundraising plan/campaign to meet fundraising goals for Per Scholas Chicago including identifying and researching new funding sources: corporate foundation government and individual.
- Analyze program data and coordinate with local program teams and fiscal departments to gather all needed information and collateral to prepare and write accurate and compelling letters of interest grant proposals reports and other materials that are responsive to donor guidelines including assembling required documentation and budgets.
- Organize and attend funder meetings and site visits including drafting agendas preparing learners and taking and distributing notes.
- Cultivate and steward relationships with current Advisory Board members and other stakeholders to ensure continued partnership and support including conducting personal outreach developing solicitation materials and engaging them in relevant events/activities. Support the onboarding of new Advisory Board members.
- Participate in quarterly Advisory Board meetings and prepare monthly quarterly and annual reports as requested by the local campus lead and Advisory Board.
- Prepare slide decks onepagers proposals and other collateral to support fund development.
- Contribute to accurate and uptodate development recordkeeping in Salesforce and other development systems.
- Collaborate with the Managing Director Marketing/Comms and National Development teams to identify and execute brandbuilding opportunities that enhance local reach and relevance with key stakeholders and the philanthropic community.
WHAT YOULL BRING TO US:
Professional Requirements
- 5 or more years of relevant fundraising experience ideally managing external individual and institutional donor relationships.
- Demonstrated ability to build new substantial funder relationships while strategically nurturing and renewing existing partnerships to drive sustained growth and longterm impact.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent project management skills; able to prioritize influence myriad stakeholders and meet deadlines.
- Excellent relationship management skills with the capacity and willingness to reach out to donors to cultivate and steward them as the organizational representative.
- A resultsdriven approach with a commitment to outcomes and tracking.
- Ability to gather and interpret data to drive decisionmaking; donor prospecting experience desirable.
- Experience with Microsoft Office Salesforce and Google Apps for Business (Docs Drive Gmail Calendar etc..
- Availability to travel 510.
- Familiarity with the Chicago and Illinois philanthropic community is strongly preferred.
Personal Characteristics
- You thrive in a creative inventive fastpaced startup environment with people who are passionate about their work and mission.
- You are datadriven resultoriented and a forwardlooking catalyst for social change.
- You have a collaborative and flexible work style. Youre excited to work crossfunctionally with other departments and independently.
- You have the ability to take projects from concept to with strong attention to detail.
- You maintain effective systems for time management and organization to stay on top of workloads and competing priorities.
- You are an effective communicator with strong oral and written skills.
- You are tech savvy and learn new tools quickly.
- You are interested in workforce development technology diversity organizational growth and scaling impact.
- You stand behind our mission believing that individuals from any community should have access to wellpaying career positions and that talent should be recognized and recruited from many diverse sources.
#LIHybrid
For this role specifically we are targeting a salary range of $105000$115000 where the difference in salary is typically determined by several factors including the geography in which the selected candidate resides and alignment with qualifications and experience.
QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about this role please feel free to email our Talent team at. We look forward to viewing your application!
Equal Employment Opportunity
Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity or national origin.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
