Annual Fund and Events Manager

Annual Fund and Events Manager Job Description

Supervised by: Director of Development

Status: Full-time minimum of 32 hours, a four-day work week exempt

Date revised: July 2025

Organization Description

The mission of the Chicago Abortion Fund is to advance reproductive autonomy and justice for everyone by providing financial, logistical, and emotional support to people seeking abortion services and by building collective power and fostering partnerships for political and cultural change. We envision a world where everyone has the freedom and autonomy to create lives, families, and communities that are healthy, safe, thriving and where the full range of reproductive choices, including abortion, are accessible and affirmed.

Position Description

The Annual Fund and Events Manager is a mission-driven team member who plays a key role in engaging and stewarding annual donors, and in designing thoughtful donor experiences through events and campaigns. As one of four staff in a growing development department, this position is responsible for managing the annual giving portfolio, prospect research and supporting moves management, and overseeing the planning and execution of donor events. We’re looking for an individual who brings creativity, strong relationship-building skills, and strategic thinking to help grow and deepen our base of support.

Compensation

• This position has a starting salary range of $78,374 to $96,758, for a four-day 32-hour work week, depending on experience and qualifications, as determined by CAF’s Compensation Philosophy Policy.
• A 401K is offered, with a 5% employer contribution matched if employee contributes
• Unlimited paid time off, mandatory four weeks off; paid parental leave; federally observed holidays
• 100% employer-paid health insurance premiums, including dental and vision, with 50% coverage for dependents.

Work schedule

• A full-time work week at CAF is defined as a minimum of 32 hours over four days. This may change in the future.
• Illinois residence is required by the start of employment. Work is partially remote.A minimum of 1 day in the office, preferably 2 days. The office is in the West Loop. This may change in the future.

Essential Job Functions:

Individual Giving & Annual Campaigns (approximately 40% of the position)

• Develops, executes, and evaluates multi-channel annual fundraising campaigns, including direct mail, email, peer-to-peer, and digital strategies
• Manages donor segmentation, testing, and performance analytics to increase donor retention
• Oversees annual fund and monthly giving program strategy and stewardship
• Supports Director of Development with prospect research and wealth-screenings on individuals as needed

Event Strategy & Execution (approximately 25% of the position)

• Plans and executes all fundraising and cultivation events (e.g., benefit, house parties, donor briefings), including logistics, managing vendor relationships, and run-of-show
• Tracks event performance, ROI, and donor engagement outcomes

Stewardship & Donor Experience (approximately 15% of the position)

• Partners with Communications and Director of Development to create donor-centric appeals, acknowledgments, and engagement materials
• Implements creative touchpoints and impact updates for annual donors and monthly donors, including the creation of annual impact report
• Ensures the acknowledgement process runs smoothly and accurately (held by Development Coordinator)

Collaboration & Reporting (approximately 15% of the position)

• Collaborates with Development Coordinator on gift processing and database hygiene
• Tracks campaign results and prepares reports for leadership
• Works closely with Director of Development to support strategic revenue planning for annual fund

Other

(approximately 5% of the position)

• Actively participate in required CAF meetings and respond in a timely manner to CAF staff communications
• When required, participate in reproductive justice movement-building initiatives
• Participate in and support an organizational culture that fosters deep collaboration, trust, and coordination across functional areas
• Perform other duties as assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications

• Commitment to reproductive justice and abortion access for all people
• Knowledge of intersectionality and the impact that privilege and oppression can have on people’s ability to access abortion
• Employs a diversity, equity, and inclusion lens to policies, practices, and activities both internally and externally

Experience

• Five years of previous work experience raising funds from individual donors, preferably in the social justice sector
• Previous experience overseeing and executing on special events, ability to manage logistics and budgets
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences
• Experience producing and interpreting individual giving reports
• Previous experience working with a CRM, entering data, producing queries, and reports
• Possesses strong writing skills
• Works flexibly, effectively manages ambiguity in a dynamic work environment
• Works independently, self-motivated, juggles, prioritizes on their own
• Performs under pressure, excellent time management, detail-oriented
• Ability to work effectively with diverse communities
• Comfortable and experienced with handling confidential donor information
• Self-motivated, resourceful, adaptive, responsive, and able to make strategic decisions
• Proficiency in Google Suite, social media, project management software, Slack

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization and are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job. That candidate may come from a background less traditional to our field of work, and that is just fine. We strongly encourage all interested candidates to apply.

Work Environment

• The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with different abilities to perform the essential functions
• This role requires frequent sitting and routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers and scanners. Employees are regularly required to communicate effectively via computer, via phone, and in person
• Must be able to participate in online virtual communications including email, video conferencing, and other online tools used to facilitate virtual office culture and work sharing
• Some work at off-site locations may be required; CAF aims for accessibility in any off-site location that we have control of, but some of them may not be fully accessible
• Must be able to conduct business in English
• Evening and weekend work is rare, but sometimes required

How to Apply

• Please send a cover letter and resume to Bamboo
• Position to begin as soon as possible.

Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality

CAF is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any individual based on any

non-merit factor and is committed to an equitable workplace where everyone is treated as a respected and valued member of the team. CAF actively seeks to build and maintain a diverse staff regarding race, culture, ethnicity, class, religion, physical ability, age, gender, and sexual orientation. As an organization working in solidarity with the reproductive justice movement, CAF is committed to fostering the leadership and elevating the voices of women, young people, people of color, Native people, immigrant and refugees, low-income people, LGBQ+, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and non-binary people, people who have had abortions, people with disabilities, young parents, people who were formerly imprisoned, people who

have received funding for abortions, and people living in the many intersections of these experiences.

If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please email danielle@chicagoabortionfund.org

or call 847-774-0456 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.