Development Manager

Description

Classification

Full-time, Exempt, Salary 

Remote: No

Typical hours of work: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM; Monday – Friday

*Nights and weekends as needed for event/build day coverage

Reports to

Director of Corporate Partnerships

Job Summary/Objective

The Development Manager plays a key role in advancing Habitat for Humanity Tampa Bay Gulfside’s (HFHTBG) mission by cultivating and stewarding a portfolio of individual, corporate, and foundation donors. This role is responsible for securing new sponsors, retaining and upgrading current supporters, leading corporate and specialty build days, and supporting logistics and sponsorships for signature events. 

Duties/Responsibilities:

· Cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of annual donors of individuals, corporations, organizations, and foundations to be determined in collaboration with the Director of Corporate Partnerships and Chief External Relations Officer. 

· Build relationships to retain, renew, and upgrade current donors.

· Identify, cultivate, and secure new corporate sponsors and individual donors for events, specialty builds, team build days, and programs.

· Ownership and leadership of assigned specialty builds in partnership with the development team.

· Leads the corporate team build program and recruitment of new sponsors. 

· Collaborates with the Programs and Construction departments to ensure top-tier customer service for home build and team build sponsors to deliver an exceptional experience.

· Leads sponsorship efforts for signature events. Supports the Director of Development with signature event logistics.

· Liaison for outside event vendors for researching, securing, and coordinating with the Finance team for proper and on-time payments. 

· Maintain up–to–date information on current prospects, partners, and sponsor records in the donor management system and provide appropriate reporting to the development team.

· Act as staff liaison for Development events, specialty builds, and programs.

· Represent HFHTBG at community events and Habitat events. 

Competencies

• Professional, enthusiastic, mission-driven personality.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to exercise good judgment to demonstrate an understanding of ethics related to development activities and use discretion in interactions with donors, prospects, staff, and volunteers. 
• Equal parts of humor, integrity, compassion, and patience are necessary to foster effective working relationships with donors, families, staff, and various other constituencies. 
• Skill in organizing resources, multi-tasking, and establishing priorities. 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills. Presentation skills to both large and small groups.
• Skilled in the use of software applications, including MS Office Suite.
• Familiarity with donor database systems.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets, and fax machines. 

Education, Experience, and Attributes

· 5 years of sales or fundraising experience, preferably working with corporations and groups.

· 3+ years of event management experience.

· A bachelor’s degree in business administration or a related field is preferred.

· Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business information.

· Ability to speak and write English fluently.

· Builds constructive and effective relationships.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands, reach with hands/arms, listen, and communicate. The employee must be capable of lifting and/or moving up to 30 pounds on a necessary basis, occasionally required to stand and walk for long extended periods, climb or balance and stoop or kneel.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job but is not limited to this. 

Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Habitat for Humanity Tampa Bay Gulfside (TBG) actively recruits, employs, trains, and compensates employees regardless of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, gender, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, Habitat TBG complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including workplace harassment. 

At Habitat TBG, we have a clear vision to be the place where a diverse mix of talented people want to come, stay, and do their best work. Our vision is to see a world where everyone has a safe, affordable place to live, and we know our organization runs on the hard work and dedication of our passionate and creative employees. Our dedication to promoting diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion is clearly reflected in the work that we do externally in the community, as well as internally with our employment practices.