Development and Communications Director

Full-Time, Salaried. Salary Range: $89,765 - $116,390.

Reporting To: Executive Director. Direct Reports: None

Position Overview

Greater Greater Washington (GGWash) is seeking an experienced professional to join its senior leadership team as Development and Communications Director. This position will play an integral role in shaping the experiences of people who care about, engage with, and support the work of GGWash while helping to ensure the organization is able to grow in its mission-driven work.

The Development and Communications Director is responsible for fundraising strategy development and execution. They will oversee a range of fundraising and communications functions. The role requires significant experience with individual giving, major donor, and/or events-based fundraising; collaborative project management skills (including the ability to manage up and sideways); comfort with the technological side of fundraising and communications (constituent relationship managers, websites, etc.); and ease with an evolving social media landscape and online engagement tactics.

We encourage those who can bring a diverse perspective to our organization and our work, in terms of race, socioeconomic status, geographic diversity, sexual orientation, or gender identity, to apply.

Responsibilities

Fundraising (Approximately 65% of time)

Lead efforts to reach budgeted fundraising goals and grow our funding base through a primary focus on donor cultivation and retention, corporate support, events, and board giving.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and execute an annual small-dollar and recurring donor strategy that encompasses revenue-generating campaigns (such as end-of-year) and good practices in donor stewardship and retention.
• Develop and execute a strategy to increase major donor support that encompasses prospect research, as well as working with and advising staff and board on donor cultivation and stewardship.
• Oversee and execute two major fundraising events each year, including coordinating board and staff corporate sponsorship outreach, overseeing sponsor relationships, and managing ticket sales, event logistics, and volunteers and/or contractors.
• Maintain accurate donor records.
• Coordinate the board fundraising committee.
• Periodically support the executive director and other staff in the development of grant proposals and reports.

Communications and Marketing (Approximately 35% of time)

Oversee external communications to ensure compelling, consistent, and well-coordinated messaging across the organization that expands and engages GGWash’s base of supporters. Identify opportunities to improve practices within current capacity.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead on marketing for events (such as meet-ups or book talks), including maintaining GGWash’s events calendar, generating a monthly newsletter, and, as needed, setting up registration pages, drafting email blasts, and developing social media content, or signing off on such marketing materials when developed by colleagues.
• Oversee management of organizational websites to ensure accuracy, clarity, and usability.
• Oversee social media accounts, identifying low-hanging opportunities for tactical improvements.
• Manage organizational email calendar to ensure well-coordinated communications with GGWash supporters.
• Manage online forum(s) to foster a sense of community and productive engagement among staff and supporters.
• Maintain GGWash’s constituent relationship manager (EveryAction), including ensuring accurate supporter data, well-maintained emails lists, user-friendly forms, and up-to-date automated email series.
• Monitor and route inquiries sent to GGWash’s organizational email inboxes.

Other responsibilities as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 8-10 years of work experience, ideally in nonprofit fundraising with demonstrated communications skills.
• Experience working in nonprofits focused on housing policy, transportation policy, urban planning, community development, advocacy, or related fields.
• Experience coordinating among people, whether volunteers, employees, or contractors, who are responsible for different component parts of a set process.
• Undergraduate degree in a field that emphasizes writing, communications, or related skills.
• An interest in housing, land use, or transportation policy.

Required Competencies

Please consider applying if you possess 80% or more of the following competencies.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and grow individual giving and/or major donor programs, including prospecting, stewardship, and executing campaigns.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and grow corporate giving.
• Experience managing websites, social media, and/or online forums to drive user engagement.
• Proven ability to develop messages that engage, excite, and inspire action in a mission-driven context.
• Capacity to build and maintain empathetic, mutually beneficial, and supportive relationships with colleagues, GGWash’s base of supporters, and others in our community.
• Discretion in dealing with confidential or sensitive information.
• The self-awareness to know what you don’t know—and the interest to find it out.
• Confidence with managing daily and long-term deliverables; excellent time management skills.
• Ability to communicate clearly and directly in a timely fashion.
• A commitment to racial, social, and environmental justice, and sensitivity to the ways in which structural inequities permeate power dynamics and decision-making structures in local government and society
• An affinity for the Greater Washington region and a desire to help it become greater.

Work Environment

At this time, GGWash has a flexible, hybrid work environment, with some in-person work required at the GGWash office in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, DC. Remote work requires access to a workspace with an Internet connection. Access to a car is not required.

Work hours are typically 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. This role will involve attending some evening and weekend events.

About Greater Greater Washington

Greater Greater Washington is a nonprofit organization that works to advance racial, economic, and environmental justice in land use, transportation, and housing throughout Greater Washington.

Our work builds civic capacity and moves the needle on important issues, in service of a broader vision of a dense, growing Washington region with an abundant supply of quality housing, attainable at all income levels, and a regional transportation network that prioritizes the needs of underserved users and makes it safe and easy to travel without a car. We work in support of public processes, plans, and policymaking that embrace both our responsibility to care for people we don’t know personally and the need for cities to be shared among people who are here now and who will come in the future.