Director of Development - Brooklyn

ABOUT JEREMIAH PROGRAM

Jeremiah Program (JP) is a national organization whose mission is to disrupt the cycle of poverty for single mothers and their children, two generations at a time. By investing simultaneously in a mother’s vision for her personal and professional goals and the education of her children, she simultaneously reauthors her family’s outcome as well her community’s - proof points matter. In 2025, JP actively served over 2,000 moms and children across nine cities in Austin, TX; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Brooklyn, NY; Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN; Las Vegas, NV; Minneapolis, MN; Rochester, MN; and St. Paul, MN. Learn more about JP at jeremiahprogram.org.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Director of Development, in partnership with the Executive Director to co-develop strategy and is responsible for cultivating, navigating, and advancing external relationships to meet the fundraising and development needs that support regional growth and programming. This role is critical in achieving ambitious stewardship and new donor goals through best-in-class cultivation and targeted donor stewardship across a diverse portfolio of events, meetings, and campus tours, including a $900,000 annual fundraising goal.

The Director manages significant aspects of fundraising, with a focus on individual giving, the annual fund, and fundraising events for JP Brooklyn. They also develop and implement strategies for individual donor relationship management (recruitment, cultivation, nurturing, retention, and stewardship) to meet both annual and long-term goals.

The ideal candidate is a masterful communicator and relationship builder and is a strategic planner and executor with demonstrated success in donor cultivation, stewardship and corporate partnership development. You will bring great interpersonal skills, an ability to work with a significant volume of highly varying data requiring rigor, a strong understanding of data systems, and ability to thrive in a complex environment, one that is newer to project management and therefore often lacks an awareness of project management tools and methodology. Most importantly, you will possess a deep commitment to understanding current housing, education, early childhood, and all social justice issues intersecting with poverty. You have enthusiasm, familiarity and demonstrated alignment with JP’s mission and a commitment to building/deepening your commitment to racial justice and are dedicated to leveraging economies of scale with a mission-based and donor-centric approach to fundraising.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Individual Giving and Annual Fund Leadership

• Lead the overall management and implementation of the Annual Giving program to meet annual fund goals, supporting the general operating budget
• Implement comprehensive fundraising and stewardship activities, including identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of potential donors from individual, corporate, and foundation sources with a strong emphasis on donor cultivation, relationship, management, and long-term stewardship.
• Develop and steward corporate sponsorships and partnerships, including those aligned with corporate social responsibility priorities, with a focus on long-term relationship building
• Partner with the National Advancement Team to plan and execute market research, appeals, donor follow-ups, and other individual donor-related activities.
• Coordinate the production and distribution of appeals and stewardship initiatives, including electronic and print communications, in collaboration with the Executive Director, National Advancement Team, and Communications Team, including materials that support both individual donor and corporate partnership engagement
• Develop and oversee a matching gift program and volunteer stewardship plan.
• Engage in direct donor solicitation across multiple channels, including social media, and manage key major gifts functions such as high-level portfolio management, cultivation, solicitation, acknowledgment, and stewardship processes.
• Execute the local individual giving strategy to meet fundraising targets, fostering long-term donor engagement and investment with a focus on strengthening donor retention and increasing average gift size
• Cultivate active participation and effective roles for community board members, collaborating with the development committee to meet annual fundraising goals.
• Ensure that 100% of the community board meets give/get expectations, working closely with the Executive Director to facilitate commitments and engage their networks and are actively engaged in supporting fundraising efforts through their networks and relationships

Development Operations & Data Management

• Embody and adhere to development/fundraising best practices, staying up to date on novel approaches that ensure the effectiveness of local development operations.
• Maximize database functionality and ensure JP-wide coordination and consistency by working in close partnership with the Campus Support Team to identify new and better ways of using the database.
• Collaborate with the campus leadership team, including the Family Services Director (FSD), to gather program data, and work closely with the Operations Manager to support development and fundraising events.
• Use Raiser’s Edge to manage and implement the appeal process and effectively and efficiently guide the prospecting, cultivation, and solicitation of donors and track donor engagement and pipeline activity
• Generate fundraising and donor reports for individual and institutional donors.
• Conduct research and create reports to identify potential donors, monitor goals, and track progress.
• Collaborate with Brooklyn team members on the integration of Raiser’s Edge in initiatives and strategies.
• Ensure timely and accurate gift processing. Donor acknowledgment, and record maintenance.

Special Events & Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with the Brooklyn team and the Campus Support Team nationally in the management and implementation of special events, including large annual events or any other signature fundraiser, recognizing the cultivation of donors at all stages, ensuring events serve as strategic opportunities for donor cultivation, stewardship, and corporate engagement
• Cultivate, secure, and steward corporate and other sponsorship donors for Campus signature events, with an emphasis on building relationships beyond single-event sponsorship
• Attend events that include local campuses as well as JP-wide events.
• Participate in Development Team meetings, seminars, workshops, events, including Board committee meetings as deemed necessary. Leverage volunteers and interns to increase organizational capacity.
• Serve as liaison to the CST Development Team and the overall organization
• Incorporate donor, partner, and stakeholder trends, philanthropy, initiatives/events and cultivation into overall organizational goals and objectives.
• Other Duties as Assigned: This job description provides a comprehensive overview of the role responsibilities, but it is important to note that duties, responsibilities, and activities may evolve with or without prior notice.

160 Hours PTO, Two Paid Self Care Weeks, Two Personal Holidays, Federal Holidays, Competitive medical plans, 403B retirement plan, Maternity leave.

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