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Development Director
ORGANIZATION: Global Potential
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9 people are interested
Global Potential Job Description
Global Potential (GP) is an innovative local & international youth development organization that empowers youth to transform themselves into actors for good in their own communities and communities around the world. GP is headquartered in NYC with a chapter office in Boston. Since our founding in 2007, 100% of our youth Fellows have graduated from high school, 87% entered college and a growing number enter graduate school. Youth-driven community action projects result in award-winning documentary films, advocacy and service initiatives, and solidarity projects with rural villages in Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Nicaragua. GP youth are ethnically and nationally diverse and hail from our cities’ most underserved communities.
The CDO Position
The CDO will serve as a member of Global Potential's Executive Team while leading the organization’s fund development, relationship development and communications efforts. The CDO will have overall responsibility for leading a team of volunteers in carrying out Global Potential's fundraising strategies to reach revenue goals.
The Candidate
The ideal candidate should demonstrate a strong commitment to the mission and values of Global Potential and should have substantial expertise in all areas of responsibility.
Responsibilities & Roles
- Create a comprehensive Development Plan that includes both broad strategies to accomplish fundraising goals and micro and macro level systems and procedures for implementation
- Lead all of Global Potential's fund development activities, including day-to-day development operations
- Partner with Global Potential's Board of Trustees to build relationships with their networks, to secure resources for Global Potential
- Supervise and manage volunteer development team
- Cultivate and steward individual and corporate major gift prospects and donors
- Create strategy for fundraising events and manage execution of event plans, which will include follow up with event sponsors and potential new donors
- Oversee the organization’s efforts to solicit competitive public and private grants
- Ensure compliance with all regulations regarding accountability and sound fiscal/fundraising practices
- Work closely with Marking and Communications Team
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required; related Master’s Degree preferred
- 3-5 years of experience as a fundraising professional; including at least 1 year as a non-profit manager
- High-level development/fundraising skills including how to cultivate and steward major gift prospects, research and write grant proposals and build relationships with institutional and governmental funders
- Strong understanding of planning and managing fundraising special events
- Professional fundraising training and certification (Indiana School/AFP/INM/etc.) a plus
- Experience in youth-friendly environment (including direct service work) preferred
- Basic knowledge of non-profit environment in New York City
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, database and internet applications
- Excellent attention to detail and strong organizational skills
- Excellent social, interpersonal, written communication and public speaking skills
- Ability to demonstrate strong leadership while being a flexible, team-oriented individual
Global Potential is an equal opportunity employer and hires without discrimination to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual preference or birthplace of origin. Global Potential provides a generous vacation and leave package, and compensation is aligned with industry standards and commensurate with experience.
More opportunities with Global Potential
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About Global Potential
Location:
39 Eldridge street, New York, NY 10002, US
Mission Statement
Global Potential provides consultancy services for community and international development organizations, from incubation to implementation. We are unique in that we integrate a collaborative network of multidisciplinary consultants and partners, streamlining the sharing of diverse approaches to increase efficiency and innovation in solving the complex and protracted problems faced by the international development industry. We are driven by a mission to reduce global poverty through the design and implementation of innovative and effective development projects.
Description
We aim to achieve the following:
More effective development projects, fewer wasted resources.
Our multidisciplinary services enable projects to access ideas, techniques and information that they might not otherwise have considered, and to avoid potential pitfalls that they might not otherwise have foreseen.
A streamlined approach to finding diverse knowledge and skills.
We provide a centralized place for accessing a wide assortment of knowledge and experience. This one-stop approach allows project leaders to save time that would otherwise be spent hunting for various consultants and resources.
Opportunities to tap into under-utilized human capital.
Global Potential's network model allows us to call on the and experience of many experts and practitioners who are only available on a part-time basis. We provide opportunities for people to get involved in international development work.
The formation of a collaborative community.
Global Potential fosters a proactive and collaborative environment where professionals already working within the nonprofit field will be able to easily exchange ideas and form partnerships.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
39 Eldridge streetfloor 4New York, NY 10002
DATE POSTED
October 7, 2015
SKILLS
- Child Development
- Resource Development / Management
- Fundraising
- Donor Management
- Business Development
- Business Development & Sales Management
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Full time job
- Please send your resume and cover letter to hr@global-potential.org