Development Officer

Summary:

This position is responsible for serving as full time development officer. Duties include promoting the mission of Children’s Hope Alliance through events, public speaking, fundraising, media relations, and more. This position is remote but requires a candidate to be in the area for regular face-to-face community engagement. 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

Specific duties and responsibilities:

Fundraising: 

• Cultivate existing donor relationships in assigned area. Work to grow the identified giving program and annual fund donations. 
• Work withing the agency to further fundraising through Special Events.
• Identify and solicit donor prospects with the goal of increasing contributions. 
• Travel required for donor meetings and cultivation.
• Responsible for sponsorship solicitation for fundraising events and securing support to offset event-related expenses. 
• Meet all fundraising budget goals on a quarterly and yearly basis.
• Follow all fundraising models, tour, and cultivation processes. 
• Record all donor contacts in donor database. 

Community Relations:

• Identify ways to promote the agency and child advocacy in general. Requires public speaking and serving as agency representative in civic and other community groups. 
• Assist with volunteer and Gift in Kind activities in assigned region. 
• In conjunction with communications staff, assist with public relations in assigned region. 

Other Development Support:

• Coordinate donor, volunteer, and community relation events in assigned region--managing event costs vs budget. 

• Contribute to department meetings; follow department procedures and practices on donor stewardship/follow-up/reporting. 

• May be required to photograph miscellaneous donor/volunteer activities in assigned region. 

• Assist communications staff in gathering client success stories in assigned region. 

• Other tasks as requested by supervisor. 

Supervision responsibilities:

This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

All employees have the following expectations:

• Mission: Contribute to and enhance company mission
• Organization: Prioritize and plan work responsibilities appropriately
• Professional Development: Attend and/or successfully complete all required trainings and meetings
• Timeliness and Accuracy: Perform quality work within given deadlines and expectations without direct supervision
• Professionalism: Comply with all applicable policies, practices, and procedures; report out-of-compliance and unsafe activities to supervisor; interact professionally with employees, volunteers, families, children, and the community
• Teamwork: Serve effectively as a team contributor on all assignments
• Communication: Utilize effective verbal and written communication skills; give and receive effective feedback
• Leadership: Work independently while understanding the necessity for communicating and coordinating work efforts with other appropriate individuals
• Cultural Competence: Is sensitive to the cultural, ethnic, and religious views of the children and families served, and in community and public contact.

Children’s Hope Alliance is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university; 1-3 years' related development or marketing experience including relationship building
• Non-profit experience preferred. 
• Experience with Salesforce a plus.
• Experience with Benevon fundraising model a plus. 
• Must be customer service oriented and possess a willingness to represent the agency to the public. 
•  Must be detail-oriented, have excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills. 
•  Frequent weekend and evening engagements 
•  Must be culturally sensitive to children and families and support cultural diversity throughout the program. 
•  Must also be adept at Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook 
•  Must possess a valid driver's license and be insurable by agency insurance carrier. 
•  Must submit to and pass pre-employment checks, criminal records check, and DMV/MVR check. 

Physical Requirements

• 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 regularly required to sit, use hands and fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands or arms, stand, walk, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 30 pounds.  
• Specifics vision abilities required by this position include close, distance, color, and peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Physical functions which are considered essential to the satisfactory performance of the job include the following: reading, typing, writing, speaking, and using the telephone and prolonged sitting at a desk and working on a computer.  
• Employee must be able to operate a vehicle for job duties, and keep a valid NC drivers license with insurance.
• The work environment will contain slight to moderate office-related noises. The employee is not exposed to extreme weather conditions, toxic fumes, or airborne particles. 
• The employee must occasionally travel to different locations in the course of work.

Effect on End Result

The effectiveness of the incumbent can be measured by the dollars raised as well as donor retention and progress in moves management among constituents within assigned portfolio.