Development Manager

Position: Development Manager

Reports to: Executive Director

Supervises: Development volunteer

Key collaborators: Resource Manager, Deputy Director, Grant Writer, and other contractors

Status: Full-time, Exempt

Department: Development

Hours: Full time 36 hours weekly, generally between 9am - 5pm Monday to Friday; occasional evenings, weekends

Compensation: $55,000 - $70,000 based on experience

Location: Portland, OR (Hybrid)

Benefits: Generous paid time off, technology stipend, 20 paid holidays and organizational rest days (including your own birthday), Medical/Dental/Vision insurance, flexible spending account for health care and dependent care, paid sabbatical after five years of consecutive employment.

ABOUT RAHAB’S SISTERS

Rahab’s Sisters creates community through radical hospitality with those marginalized by poverty, houselessness, sex work, violence and substance use. Founded in 2003, we believe community is a basic human need essential to well-being, and that everyone deserves to feel they belong somewhere. Radical hospitality strives to break down barriers of fear, shame and judgment and create a healing space where individuals feel valued and find solidarity with one another. Our staff and team are energetic and community minded folks who seek to share humanity with one another. Our community is made up of volunteers, guests, service providers, and staff, each equally important in all spaces, sharing from and learning from one another. Rahab’s Sisters is a vibrant, unique organization that provides radical acceptance and comfort to those most in need, and especially for those who identify as a woman or gender nonconforming.

Position Summary

The Development Manager (DM) plays a vital role as a member of the Rahab’s Sisters’ (RS) team, collaborating to implement and maintain the development plan in order to ensure RS’ longevity. The DM is part of a collaborative effort for a dynamic and integrated fundraising program in partnership with the Executive Director, staff team members, Board of Directors, and contract consultants.

The ideal DM is excited by the prospect of ensuring RS’ long-term financial health and sustainable growth with opportunities to recruit and retain a wide audience of supporters and maximize values-aligned partnerships with individuals, foundations, organizations, businesses, non-profits, and members of the community.

A successful DM at RS aligns with the principles of community-centric fundraising, approaches complex problems with creativity, addresses issues that hamper growth and success, is passionate about equity for BIPOC and issues of poverty, homelessness, and gender identity. With a collaborative spirit, the DM contributes to a strong and supportive team culture and shared equity analysis through leadership development, anti-racist dialogue, and practices rooted in our core values of radical hospitality, radical inclusion, and decolonization.

Responsibilities

Fundraising and Development

• Foster a culture of community-centric philanthropy and ensure that fund development is executed in keeping with the organization's values, vision, and mission.
• Partner with Executive Director, Staff, Board members, and volunteers to identify, cultivate and solicit potential donors and funders, as well as steward current donors, to help meet funding goals.
• Manage the writing of funding proposals, integrated campaigns, special event materials and other fundraising support documentation, in partnership with the ED, program team and independent contractors.
• Manage and collaborate on implementation of fundraising/friendraising special events such as the annual Sparkle Party and Give!Guide.
• Collaborate with the Resource Manager and program team to support in-kind donors and corporate volunteer teams.
• Collaborate with the Executive Director in developing annual revenue goals and plans to diversify and increase organizational budget through a comprehensive development strategy, including institutional and individual donors at all giving levels, ensuring a healthy donor pipeline.
• Manage the development board committees and serve as a resource to the Board on all matters related to fundraising and communications.

Communications and External Engagement

• Support the development of effective messaging for existing, new and potential donors, partners, volunteers, and other stakeholders to support recruitment, engagement and retention.
• Implement an annual calendar of fundraising and communications activities, in collaboration the ED, program team and independent contractors.
• Serve as the primary staff liaison with independent contractors working on development, marketing, event-production, and communications projects.
• Ensure fundraising, marketing, and programmatic initiatives are integrated, and meet or exceed standards of ethics and professionalism while centering the voices of Guests.

Development Operations, Tracking and Reporting

• Maintain RS’s donor database (Salesforce) ensuring accurate and comprehensive data for robust reporting and analysis.
• Maintains stewardship, gift accounting and reporting functions, ensuring that all donors receive personal and timely acknowledgment of their gifts.
• Implement performance measures, monitor results, and evaluate the efficacy of the fund development program ensuring funding goals are met.
• Manage the tracking, evaluation and reporting of organizational revenue across multiple platforms.
• Maintain accountability and ensure compliance with all regulations and laws, as well as the code of ethics for fundraising professionals.
• Support organizational compliance with IRS standards by accurately tracking expenditures.

Program Support

• Support the Resource Manager and Program Team in the effort to recruit and train fundraising volunteers, staff, and Board members. Serve as a backup for service as needed.
• Work one service shift each month, to gain a better understanding about the programs and Rahab’s Sisters values and culture, and to get to know volunteers and guests.
• Collaborate with program staff on external communications through social media, monthly newsletter, and other communications platforms.

Work Environment

Work at Rahab’s Sisters is highly collaborative and supportive, alongside a small team of passionate individuals. RS prioritizes the extension of radical hospitality and care to its staff. RS values transparency, boundaries, supportive collaboration, and wellness for all members of the RS community.

The nature of Rahab’s Sisters’ mission requires each staff member to have compassionate interaction with people with diverse life experiences, socio economic and housing status, mental health, education, faiths, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, beliefs, sexual orientation and gender expression. Rahab’s Sisters shares a space with other community organizations and its work spaces have many visitors and a variety of services throughout the week.

This position is primarily on location with some hybrid work, including regular communication with their supervisor and colleagues both in-person and virtually in addition to regular meetings prospects, donors, volunteers and other stakeholders. The role also requires attending in-person events and activities, occasional evenings and weekend work. This position requires some travel throughout the Portland area for meetings, donor visits, and events. On-site, the DM works out of a shared office space with parking available on-site and off-street. The DM must be able to transport up to 20 pounds.

Qualifications

Don’t check off everything listed below? Apply anyway! Studies have shown that marginalized communities – such as women, LGBTQ+ and people of color – are less likely to apply for a position unless they meet every single qualification.

Required Experience

• Articulated belief in Rahab’s Sisters’ mission, vision, and values, with a commitment to justice, and equitable and inclusive practices.
• Minimum three years work experience in non-profit management, and/or nonprofit community relations and communications.
• At least three years of experience in nonprofit fundraising, with familiarity of the philanthropic ecosystem in Portland and a proven track record of securing gifts.
• Demonstrated success in implementing effective fundraising and donor stewardship strategies including annual giving, events, major gift cultivation, and sponsorships.
• Successful cultivation and retention of relationships with a wide range of diverse stakeholders,
• Strong track record of working collaboratively with all constituent groups, including staff, board, volunteers, members, and partners.
• Demonstrated success in management of successful cyclical fundraising campaigns.
• Effective tracking of donor metrics to inform and adjust fundraising strategies.

Preferred Experience

• Prior work, volunteer, or lived experience with women, trans, non-binary, and/or gender-queer individuals experiencing systemic oppression due to their gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, racial identity, housing status, drug use, and/or sex work.
• At least a bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in nonprofit management, fundraising, marketing, communications, or related fields.
• Experience, or willingness to participate in, an organizational environment that values collaborative leadership, accountability, and cultivating less harmful ways of organizational culture and structure as we strive to bridge more human ways of working together and building community.
• Experience working with donor relationship management platforms, ideally Salesforce, to track donor engagement and drive data-driven strategies to grow revenue.
• Experience with integrated marketing and communication strategies including social media, direct mail, web, phone, and email.

Required Skills

• Effective project budget development and management.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while nurturing and sustaining a team culture built on trust, collaboration, flexibility, and humor.
• Ability to plan and implement engaging and accessible events for volunteers, partners, donors, and staff.
• Adaptability and the ability to work independently to manage multiple projects in a remote work environment.
• Strong collaboration skills, including the ability to provide, receive, and implement constructive feedback; share decision-making and accountability; pitch in as part of a team.
• Self awareness and recognizing one’s strengths and weaknesses and adapting accordingly.
• Ability to manage one’s own emotions and understand the emotions of others in a changing environment.
• Excellent ability to communicate effectively with others both verbally and written, with ability to ask clarifying questions, empathy, and patience to listen.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office programs, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google Workspaces including Sheets, Docs, and Drive.
• Proficiency with marketing, communications, and analytics tools

Preferred Skills

• Language other than English (Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Cantonese, and American Sign Language language skills are particularly valued).
• Working knowledge of marketing and communication tools such as Canva and Mailchimp, and social media platforms

Rahab’s Sisters is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive, equitable, multicultural and radically hospitable work environment. We value lived experiences and volunteer experience alongside relevant work and education. We encourage Black, Indigenous and other people of color; LGBTQ, gender-queer, non-binary, trans and anyone whose gender makes them vulnerable; folks with disabilities; survivors of violence; lived experience of systemic oppression due to housing status, poverty, drug use or sex work to apply. Our diversity and the different paths and experiences our team members have make us stronger and more effective.

How to Apply and Anticipated Hiring Process

Please send your resume and cover letter to hr@rahabs-sisters.org with “Development Manager” in the subject line. We will begin reviewing applications November 9, 2026 and will acknowledge receipt of all applications. Candidates under consideration will be invited to a virtual interview with the staff interview team. Candidates who advance to the next round will be invited for an in person interview on site at Rahab’s Sisters. Once a finalist is selected, we will conduct a background and reference check, and a final interview. Our hope is to hire and begin onboarding the new Development Manager in early-mid December.

Generous paid time off, technology stipend, 20 paid holidays and organizational rest days (including your own birthday), Medical/Dental/Vision insurance, flexible spending account for health care and dependent care, paid sabbatical after five years of consecutive employment.