Development Manager

Job Description:

Title: Development Manager

Reports to: CEO

Compensation: $75000 - $90000/year

Location: Hybrid - San Francisco Bay Area. Can work remotely but will be required to attend occasional meetings in the BACR office or other locations. Some travel may be required but it is not expected to be significant.

Benefits:

• Core benefits: Medical wellness/mental health benefit dental vision life insurance FSA (medical dependent transit) hospital indemnity retirement WellHub Pet Insurance employee assistance program

• Additional Perks: wellness fair people-centered work culture ability to make an impact in your community through mission-driven work.

• Time off: Include vacation sick 15 holidays parental and medical leave policy and mental health days

• Growth: Include conference opportunities regular training opportunities and professional development week

Responsibilities:

• Coordination & Accountability: Maintain a stewardship calendar of grant application and reporting deadlines donor touchpoints campaigns and events and ensure the CEO and Executive Directors stay ahead of deadlines

  • Track fundraising commitments and next steps across leadership providing timely reminders and progress check-ins to keep all development activity on schedule

  • Schedule and coordinate donor funder and prospect meetings on behalf of the CEO and Executive Directors

• Meeting Preparation & Follow-Up: Prepare agendas briefing materials and funder research summaries in advance of meetings; capture notes and action items; and draft and send follow-up correspondence to ensure commitments are honored

• Grants & Reporting Support: Support outreach and draft grant proposals letters of inquiry applications and funder reports in collaboration with the CEO Executive Directors and finance staff

  • Support outreach to funder prospects by drafting emails and other communications for the CEO Executive Directors and other staff

  • Where appropriate maintain direct communications with prospects to secure fundraising meetings and steward funder relationships

  • Develop and maintain a library of boilerplate language program descriptions budgets and standard attachments to streamline proposal development

  • Collaborate with the Contracts team on tracking foundation government and corporate grants at all stages from prospect research through application award reporting and renewal

• Development narrative: Help to shape the org-wide narrative on fundraising (the system behind the safety net) work with CEO and Executive Directors to help shape specific investment opportunities and lead efforts to find relevant data and citations (internally and externally) to support the above.

• Donor Database & Records: Develop and maintain the Salesforce donor database including accurate and timely entry of gifts contacts and actions; generate acknowledgment letters; and produce pipeline and revenue reports for leadership

• Development Initiatives: Play a key coordinating role for potential future initiatives including individual donor major gifts grassroots support and/or planned giving efforts

• Culture of Philanthropy: Serve as an internal resource and champion helping program staff across the organization understand and embrace their role in fundraising

• Other Duties: As assigned by the CEO

Mindsets

• Youre a great communicator. Whether its written or verbal you pride yourself on getting your message across succinctly and in a compelling way.

• You sweat the small stuff. Getting the details right matters to you.

• You love creating order out of chaos. Youre a systems builder. Whether its a spreadsheet app or database you love tracking things to make sure they dont fall between the cracks.

• You know how to juggle. Youre comfortable being pulled in many directions and are actually energized by the challenge.

• Youre not afraid to manage up. Youre able to move projects forward and hold people accountable.

• Youre inspired by the work you do. You bring energy commitment and passion and theyre a big part of your success.

Qualifications & Experience

• Exceptional organizational and project management skills with a demonstrated ability to manage multiple competing workstreams prioritize and meet deadlines

• High level of attention to detail and follow-through; comfortable serving as the person who keeps others on track including a proven ability to manage up across multiple personality and leadership styles

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills effective with a diverse range of audiences including executives program staff donors and institutional funders

• Knowledge of grants management funder research proposal development and reporting

• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality and exercise sound judgment

• Self-motivated service-oriented and able to work both independently and as part of a team

• Ability to convey a high degree of commitment and passion for BACRs mission

Requirements

• One to three years of experience in nonprofit development development operations or project coordination including grant writing proposal development and funder reporting experience

• Proficiency with donor databases/CRM systems (especially Salesforce) Microsoft Office and Google Workspace

• Experience with AI tools (especially as applied to nonprofit fundraising) a plus

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About Us:

Bay Area Community Resources (BACR) promotes the healthy development of individuals families and communities through direct services volunteerism and partnerships in the San Francisco Bay Area.

We have deep respect for the communities we serve throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area the dedicated staff who show up for those in need and the opportunity we have been given through this work to promote resilience in tens of thousands of individuals every year.

BACR is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment w/o regard to perceived age marital or familial status religion gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation race creed color genetic information ancestry national origin physical or mental disability including AIDS or AIDS-Related Complex or military status.

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Above is the pay range for this position that we reasonably expect to pay. Individual compensation is based on various factors including experience/education skillset and geographic location.