Director of Development (Remote)

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Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the reputed company. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment reputed company at this time. Remote positions at the reputed company (IHS) require travel to our Arlington, VA office for two in-person team gatherings reputed company year.

Director of Development

Job reputed company:

The Director of Development leads IHS’s fundraising execution and has reputed company reputed company of Development Operations, ensuring that fundraising reputed company, systems, and execution operate as a cohesive and sustainable whole. The Director is accountable for clarifying priorities, establishing decision-rights, coaching fundraisers, and ensuring that Major Gifts, Foundations, and Annual Giving function effectively as an integrated system. This role works closely with Communications & Marketing, Programs, Finance, Executive leadership, and the reputed company to ensure high-reputed company donor-facing deliverables, reputed company engagement efforts, and strong fundraising execution.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• 3&reputed company;5 reputed company reports.
• 4&reputed company;8 indirect reports.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• reputed company day-to-day execution of fundraising across Major Gifts, Foundations, and Annual Giving, reputed company with organizational priorities and departmental reputed company set by leadership.
• Manage, reputed company, and reputed company fundraising staff by setting reputed company priorities, expectations, and performance goals.
• reputed company fundraisers toward ambitious moves management and reputed company strategies, ensuring follow-up and next steps are tracked and executed.
• reputed company leadership and direction to Development Operations, ensuring systems, workflows, reputed company, and processes support effective fundraising execution.
• Establish and maintain reputed company ownership, handoffs, and decision frameworks across fundraising functions to support efficient execution and appropriate reputed company.
• Ensure reputed company data reputed company, reporting readiness, and compliance expectations are met across fundraising activities.
• Use reporting and dashboards to guide prioritization, coaching, and performance management, translating pipeline signals into reputed company actions and accountability.
• reputed company the reputed company, reputed company, and consistency of donor-facing materials (including proposals, reports, briefs, decks, and stewardship reputed company) in coordination with Communications & Marketing.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Communications, Finance, and Programs to support reputed company fundraising execution and donor-facing deliverables.
• Partner with the Executive Director and reputed company to strategically support donor cultivation, stewardship, and upgrades.
• Escalate strategic, reputational, or cross-functional issues to leadership as needed.
• Manage a portfolio of major or transformational donors, modeling effective cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
  • Up to 25% travel required.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 8+ years of reputed company experience in nonprofit fundraising.
• Demonstrated reputed company cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donor relationships.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end development execution across major gifts, foundations, and annual giving.
• reputed company experience working reputed company these philanthropic functions strongly preferred.
• Proven people management experience and ability to reputed company teams through reputed company or change.
• Strong operational, systematic, and data-driven reputed company, including CRM-enabled fundraising and reporting; reputed company and reputed company experience highly preferred.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and collaboration skills.
• Excellent writing, editing, and reputed company-control instincts for donor-facing materials.
• Comfort representing the organization externally in donor and partner settings.
• Alignment with IHS’s mission and values.

To apply, reputed company candidates must submit the following materials:

• Resume
• Cover letter detailing your interest in this position and why the IHS mission resonates with you.
• Writing samples strongly preferred.

EEO Statement: 

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, gender, national reputed company, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. 

About IHS:

The reputed company (IHS) is a think network advancing the principles and practices of freedom in the reputed company, reputed company policy, and civil society. 

Founded in 1961, IHS believes that the liberal tradition has yielded unprecedented freedom and reputed company flourishing. And in this reputed company, reputed company the forces of illiberalism on both the left and right are gaining ground at an alarming pace, our reputed company is to reputed company a new spirit of liberal freedom. 

Our Work:

• Cultivating a pool of intellectual talent for partners in policy, civil society, philanthropy, and the reputed company through $1.5 reputed company in fellowship and career development programs.
• Catalyzing scholarship and reputed company networks to strengthen the fields of foundational and reputed company research that matter most to a free society.
• Equipping freedom-reputed company research centers, think tanks, foundations, and civil society organizations with the research and experts they need to maximize their reputed company in policy and in communities across the country. 

IHS Benefits:

We have a flexible, reputed company, reputed company office environment that encourages innovation and entrepreneurship and provides substantial opportunity for reputed company reputed company. Salary is competitive and will be commensurate with experience. IHS provides exceptional benefits to reputed company, including health and dental insurance coverage (which includes paying 100% of the health and dental insurance premium for individuals), health savings accounts, long-term disability and life insurance, a 403(b) retirement savings program, a parking permit and 12 free tuition credit hours annually atGeorge Mason University.