This position supports the work of the Y, a leading not-for-profit organization committed to strengthening community through youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. The CDO serves as a member of the President/CEO’s senior leadership team, providing strategic leadership in philanthropy and advancement of the Y’s mission through annual giving, foundation grants, capital campaigns, and endowment bequests and gifts. The CDO assists the CEO in developing a volunteer board of directors which is highly engaged in fundraising, and in positioning the Y as a “charity of choice” for the investment of donations within Central Maryland.
Success in the role will require strong leadership and relationship building skills, a well-rounded functional skill set, and superior management acumen.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Leads and manages association capital development, annual campaign and endowment strategy, programs and initiatives.
- Develops and leads a strong financial development team and manages resources and systems needed to carry out the fundraising plans. Provides direction to the mission advancement team in the performance of their duties, establishing work priorities in achieving strategic and fundraising goals; prepares and manages the department’s and associated budgets.
- Develops processes and is actively involved in identifying, cultivating and soliciting major gift prospects from the individual, foundation and corporate sectors.
- Provides supervision of and guidance to the Y’s Grants Manager and grant writing activities
- Serves as the senior Y leader in effectively leveraging the Y’s Board of Directors and Board Philanthropy Committee (made up of Association and Community Leadership board members as well as at-large community members) to maximize volunteer engagement and participation in fundraising.
- Develops strategies to increase volunteer involvement at all levels of development and fundraising.
- Develops appropriate fundraising policies and procedures for the association.
- Ensures that a robust tracking system is in place for all gifts and pledges by source and purpose and provides regular reporting to the organization on the status of fundraising campaigns.
- Provides training to Y associates and volunteers in fundraising. Educates, motivates and provides feedback to individuals related to best practices in the fundraising process.
- Works collaboratively with the Chief Marketing Officer to both drive the Y’s “retail” fundraising efforts (i.e. “Send a Kid to Camp” and registrations and grassroots fundraising for the Y’s signature event, the Turkey Trot Charity 5k) and to develop communication plans to ensure members, participants, and the community understands the Y’s case for support. Represents and regularly shares the impact of the Y’s work across the community.
- Serves as a resource and participates as a leader/member of various organizational committees and leadership groups.
- Develops and maintains relationships with other fundraising leaders in the local community, with counterparts of other large North American Ys, and with the YMCA of the USA, continuously benchmarking best practices and furthering the interests of the Y in Central Maryland.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Skills/Experience:
Required Skills
- Ability to build relationships with and relate effectively to top community leaders and diverse groups of people from all social and economic segments of the community.
- Ability to inform and inspire potential donors to understand the mission and impact of the Y and how they can best contribute to the achievement of its mission.
Required Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent; Master’s degree preferred.
- Ten or more years of professional experience with a background in successful fundraising in a large, complex not-for-profit organization.
- Demonstrated experience building and leading a team of successful fundraising professionals.
- Track record of securing significant foundation and individual gifts for annual and capital campaigns.
- Strong working knowledge of giving and charitable vehicles.
- CFRE or equivalent strongly preferred.
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Mar 7 2018
Active Until:
Apr 7 2018
Hiring Organization:
YMCA of the USA
industry:
Nonprofit