Director of Development

Mount Madonna School is a small independent nonprofit school offering preschool through 12th grade located on a beautiful redwood summit between Gilroy and Watsonville California. We educate our students on a 355-acre campus with sweeping views of the Monterey Bay. We are accredited by CAIS and WASC and have been providing an excellent education for more than 40 are a community of learners dedicated to creative intellectual and ethical growth. We support our students to become caring self-aware discerning and articulate individuals. We believe a fulfilling life includes personal accomplishments meaningful relationships and service to do not discriminate on the basis of race sex religion national origin sexual orientation disability gender identity or gender expression.

Mount Madonna School is creating a dedicated Director of Development position as part of a broader investment in the schools long-term advancement capacity. Fundraising currently sits inside a single consolidated role alongside enrollment and marketing a structure that has limited the schools capacity for the sustained relationship-based major gift work that MMSs leadership has identified as its highest-leverage fundraising strategy. This newly defined position gives that work a dedicated senior-level owner for the first Director of Development will build and lead a comprehensive philanthropic program: major gifts annual giving institutional giving and donor stewardship in service of MMSs strategic priorities including enrollment growth program investment and reduced reliance on ad hoc one-time sources of support. This role will work in close partnership with the Director of Community (enrollment and marketing) and report directly to the Head of School ensuring fundraising strategy is fully integrated with the schools broader advancement and community-building is an exceptional opportunity for a development professional who wants to build something durable: a philanthropic program with real infrastructure an engaged and better-utilized board a reactivated alumni community and a growing base of donors giving at meaningful levels inside a mission-driven close-knit school community with nearly 50 years of ResponsibilitiesStrategic Leadership & PlanningDevelop and lead MMSs comprehensive fundraising strategy in alignment with the schools strategic plan and financial an annual development plan with clear revenue targets tactics and with the Head of School Director of Community and Board to identify funding priorities and shape the schools case for metrics tracking systems and regular reporting to measure fundraising Gifts