Director of Development

Position Title: Director of Development

Core Hours: Full time 40 hours per week

Supervisor: Chief Executive Officer

Department: Development

FLSA Status: Exempt

FLSA Exemption Test: Professional

Starting Salary/Hourly Rate: $58000/year

Last Updated: 10/17/2025

Our Mission

Safe Berks provides a safe haven and support for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault through education advocacy and a relentless commitment to prevent abuse. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive environment where individuals can be their true selves and feel empowered to stand up to all forms of oppression.

Our Values

SAFETY

We believe that freedom from physical emotional spiritual and psychological harm is a basic human right of all individuals. We know that domestic violence sexual assault oppression and privilege include power-based tactics that affect physical emotional and psychological safety and we work to help survivors heal the wounds caused by power-based violence.

RESPECT

We value the dignity of all individuals while appreciating our differences and celebrating and honoring our diversity. Respect is reflected in the way we treat our clients ourselves and members of the community. We believe our work requires us to reach out to marginalized individuals and communities and to create space to celebrate and nurture them.

EMPOWERMENT

We believe empowerment begins with recognizing and knowing that individually and collectively Safe Berks clients staff and volunteers have the strength to make necessary change and to accomplish our goals. We recognize that success is defined by each individual given their experience talents and culture and we celebrate this success.

EDUCATION

We will educate ourselves and our community to reject and prevent violence and oppression in our own lives and in the lives of the people around us. We recognize that our mission and values are transformational and we must work with intention to break down social and cultural norms that continue to divide us.

HOPE

We believe that hope is key to our existence to our ability to persevere and to achieve goals. We recognize that our work fosters hope and resilience and improves physical emotional spiritual and psychological well-being.

Safe Berks is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where all staff residents clients board members and volunteers feel safe and empowered to stand up to oppression of all kinds. We believe that the collective sum of our individual differences life experiences knowledge creative outlets innovative approaches and solutions unique capabilities and talent that our employees exhibit in their work represents the quality of our life-saving services. Reflective of the community we serve and embrace we celebrate differences in age color disability ethnicity family or marital status gender identity or expression language national origin physical and mental ability political affiliation race religion sexual orientation socio-economic status veteran status and other characteristics that make our employees unique.

Position Standards

• In-Direct Service Delivery Standard
• Employee demonstrates a commitment to delivering quality service to all agency affiliates partners community members and individuals seeking assistance from Safe Berks and does so in a manner that is in line with agency values of safety respect empowerment education and hope. Employee displays a team-based approach to work and is always willing to pitch-in to complete the work of the department.
• Conduct and Behavioral Standard
• Employee maintains respectful relationships and interactions with other employees management donors board members community members clients and survivors. They conduct themselves in a manner that demonstrates integrity and a commitment to the organizations mission. Employee always fosters open communication and is responsive to community partners donors co-workers and management through means of email text and phone calls.
• Essential Skills Standard
• Employee has strong time management skills which are essential to the work of in-direct staff and staff facilitating programming to third parties. They accurately estimate the time required to complete a task and sequences tasks appropriately to meet assigned deadlines. Employee displays timeliness in the management of projects and when unable to meet a deadline the employee seeks assistance from team members and/or their supervisor.
• Policies Standard
• Employee administers policies and provides direction to staff in accordance with agency documents best practices and guidance from executive leadership.
• Staff Development Standard
• Employee provides exemplary leadership guidance and counsel to staff in support of their individual short-term and long-term career and professional development goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities (includes but is not limited to the following):

1. Provide direct supervision to Donor and Board Relations Administrator.

2. Establish development policies systems and procedures.

3. Assist in developing and meeting Agency Strategic Plan objectives.

4. Develop comprehensive fundraising strategies identify funding needs and create annual development plans.

5. Create and maintain Departmental budget.

6. In tandem with the Finance Department manage contributed revenue and development budget and track progress towards fundraising goals.

7. Maintain donor software.

8. Directly participate in and oversee all fundraising activities which can include major gifts annual campaigns corporate sponsorships grant writing and special events.

9. Nurture and maintain relationships with donors sponsors and other supporters to secure ongoing financial support.

10. Ensure timely processing and acknowledgment of donations and work to convert one-time donors into long-term recurring supporters.

11. Serve as the Safe Berks media liaison by managing all media inquiries maintain media press list coordinate and prepare press releases and assist in reporting the impact of programs to the community.

12. Review update and maintain Safe Berks website.

13. Coordinate and facilitate monthly Safe Berks BCTV scripts and programming.

14. Create schedule and post to various social media sites including Facebook Instagram Twitter LinkedIn Tik Tok etc.

15. Continuous reputation monitoring of all virtual platforms by reviewing and evaluating responding comments and interactions with other social media users.

16. Coordinate develop and write the agencys newsletters PeaceTrust email blasts annual reports annual appeals and all other communications as needed.

17. Meet and interview clients donors volunteers stakeholders and Safe Berks employees to develop relevant material for use in various publications and grant applications.

18. Create Presentations/slideshows draft scripts and assist with coordinating programming for special events including the Walk For NO MORE PeaceTrust events Annual Celebration of Peace Gala etc.

19. Manage community requests such as fundraising opportunities staff speakers to attend various events provide United Way reverse tours etc.

20. Responsible for organizing and archiving all Safe Berks historical documents and communications.

21. Participate in outreach efforts to increase volunteer pool to meet agency needs

22. All other duties as determined by Executive Leadership Team. To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each of the essential duties. Reasonable accommodations must be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Educational & Experience Requirements:

Employment Experience (amount and kind)

• 5 years related experience

Education (general level required or specific courses)

• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Essential Physical Requirements:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each of the essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Other Requirements:

• Proficiency in data management project management and philanthropy
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to create and implement effective long-term strategies
• Ability to work a team member
• Completion of a background check request; FBI State Police and Child Abuse Clearances obtained within required timeframe under Act 153 through agency vendor
• Successful completion of required Advocate Training provided by agency
• Valid drivers license current vehicle registration acceptable driving record and PA Minimum Liability insurance coverage of $15000 Bodily Injury per person / $30000 Bodily Injury per accident and $5000 Property Damage or $35000 Combined Single Limit if your position requires operating a personal or organization owned vehicle.