Horizon's Development Manager

DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

Position Description

ORGANIZATION OVERVIEW

Horizons at Carolina Day aims to reverse the trend of summer learning loss that adversely impacts the long-term success of students who are impacted by inequities. Horizons at Carolina Day an affiliate of the nationally renowned Horizons National program is a public-private partnership that provides academic cultural and recreational summer programming designed to support students from under-resourced communities in realizing their full potential. The heart of Horizons is a six-week equity-centered academic summer program that supports students in reading writing math and science paired with swimming lessons field trips sports and enrichment activities in the performing and visual arts. The program also includes a year-round component featuring Saturday events visits to schools family support and communication with students schools and teachers. The student/teacher ratio at Horizons is approximately 5:1.

The program begins in kindergarten and serves its students through 9th grade and beyond helping them build skills and self-confidence and realize their full potential through a unique blend of academic cultural and recreational enrichment activities. Additionally Horizons provides direct individualized academic support and tutoring to its students throughout the year. Working in partnership with Horizons families schools in Asheville and Buncombe County and the host school Carolina Day School Horizons at Carolina Day School supports the whole child and offers activities that promote higher-level thinking and perspective leadership development and boost self-efficacy.

Horizons will serve over 135 students from 2026 and beyond from kindergarten through high school and will continue to expand and refine its work. For more information about Horizons please visit.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Development Manager will manage a dynamic and multi-modal development program that will support the continued growth and sustainability of Horizons at Carolina Day. This position will work to advance the current development program while also conceiving and implementing new fundraising strategies. This position will partner with the Executive Director and the Board of Directors while taking the lead on all fundraising activities.

POSITION STATUS

Staff part-time. This position involves collaborating in the office on the campus of Carolina Day School taking meetings in-person off-campus as well as virtual meetings. Flexible remote work will also be possible for a portion of the hours. Approximately 60 to 80 hours per month.

COMPENSATION

$30 per hour

RESPONSIBILITIES

Horizons at Carolina Day School is seeking a Development Manager to develop and implement both existing and new fundraising programs cultivate and enhance constituent relationships for Horizons at Carolina Day School including but not limited to:

Support and collaborate with the Executive Director across all aspects of development

Communicate with individual donors through annual giving efforts such as email and social media campaigns as well as phone communications

Supervise Horizons National Giving Day year-end efforts through outreach strategy and social media

Identify and cultivate major donors

Create campaign and fundraising materials analyze all fundraising results and make recommendations to the ED and Board to increase reach participation and gift level

Lead stewardship efforts for donor base

Manage supervise and lead special events oriented toward our donors during the year these include friendraisers supporters breakfast(s) visits to programming and our annual benefit.

Collaborate with program director and teaching staff to set event schedules as needed

Develop relationships with area businesses and corporations to build corporate giving program

Represent Horizons at Carolina Day at community events and implement strategies to increase awareness and name recognition of Horizons throughout the community

Update and manage donor database including updating all constituent information producing mailing labels and lists creating and updating donor lists and processing donations throughout the year and ticket sales for our annual event

Coordinate the gift acknowledgement process ensuring all gifts and pledges are stewarded in a timely fashion; generate annual gift reminders

Attend board meetings as requested

Contribute to expansion and growth conversations related to programming

Meet weekly with the Executive Director

QUALIFICATIONS

Required

Passionate about Horizons at Carolina Day and its mission

Excellent interpersonal skills including discretion and good judgment

Working knowledge of fundraising through all social media outlets

Reliable collaborative and flexible

Ability to relate effectively to a diverse community and to connect with Horizons staff volunteers partners consultants board members children and parents

Exceptional writing proofreading skills

Demonstrated excellence in time management organizational skills and attention to detail

Ability to learn from feedback handle multiple projects work independently and produce quality results on schedule

Demonstrated ability with Microsoft Office Google Apps and familiarity with database management

4-year college degree

2 years of experience in a development or fundraising or grantmaking role

Ideal

Experience in developing and organizing marketing and fundraising proposals for various audiences

Experience working with various stakeholders to ensure mission alignment across fundraising and/or efforts in nonprofit settings

In addition to your online applicaiton please email as a .pdf attachment to an email or include in an email toanswers the following questions:

How would you develop relationships with our donors and sponsors to incorporate the value and promise of this program

What elements of your professional experience align well with this role

What kinds of new campaigns might you launch to target various stakeholders

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an

employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential

functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk;

sit; use hand to finger handle or feel objects tools or controls; reach with hands and arms;

climb stairs; balance; stoop kneel crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee

must occasionally lift and or move up to 50 pounds. This position sometimes has to use ladders

scaffolding and other equipment to work off the ground.

Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision distance vision color vision

peripheral vision depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met

by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential

functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.