Director of Development (Central Office)
Director of Development (Central Office)
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Job Description
The Director of Development will oversee and manage the logistics and operations of the department heading projects that lead to the continuous improvement of our seven campuses and any future campuses in the upcoming years. At the same time s/he will be responsible for maintaining and improving upon the excellent products and external relations that has developed within our existing network of campuses.
Responsibilities and Qualifications:
Working closely with the Executive Director to project manage all external relation activities. These include awareness campaigns high profile events school aesthetics lead generation activities public relation activities and a host of other marketing campaigns and programs.
- Oversee all compliance with State Education Department requirements and all Board of Trustees interactions.
- Oversees all government relations and compliance with Charter Schools Institute regulations and deadlines.
- Serve as primary point of contact at for all Board meetings for external affairs ensuring that each member has all the information necessary to closely monitor the school.
- Helps secure grant funding through considerable lobbying efforts
- Develops all of the schools marketing and branding materials including the school brochure and website and runs an aggressive student recruitment effort that has led to oversubscribed admissions lotteries in previous years.
- Manages all media relations
- Managed development for CASLV overseeing relations with a dozen national foundations.
- Oversees the Networks annual fundraising event student recruitment press relations marketing branding and external communications.
- Research new prospective foundation donors to identify organizations with giving criteria that match the Concepts mission and to acquire additional grant revenue for the organization
- Develop an overall grant-writing strategy
- Generates reports from the fundraising database and prospect management system to assist with donor cultivation solicitation and relations
- Oversees the fundraising database prospect management systems pledge reminders and gift acknowledgments.
- Develops and maintains ongoing stewardship systems for local businesses and corporations to expand their partnerships with CASLV.
- Develops fosters and maximizes relationships with institutional and private funders.
- Maintains records and submits reports related to grant opportunities.
- Represents CASLV at community events and coordinates regular cultivation activities with potential donors.
- Studies and understands the history structure objectives programs and financial needs of the organization to accurately represent the organization when interacting with funders on the organizations behalf.
- Implements and manages fundraising activities including major gifts and special projects.
- Writes and coordinates full grant proposals and reports to foundations corporations and select government agencies as determined by the grants calendar and grant reporting requirements.
- Develops and implements strategy for the identification cultivation solicitation and stewardship of potential major donors to support the networks strategic growth strategy
Our ideal Director of Development will have incredible professional poise excellent written andverbal abilities experience in project management and experience in both analyzing and perfecting systems. S/he will be a people-person with a demonstrated track record of achieving ambitious results. Successful candidates should have 5-7 years of managerial and professional experience.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
