Development Director

Summary

Join TransLash Media, a non-profit media organization, as their Development Director. This role is crucial to their ambitious growth plan, focusing on securing significant funding to support their mission of telling trans stories and protecting democracy. The successful candidate will develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy, cultivate relationships with donors, manage a small team, and work closely with the CEO and COO. The position requires significant fundraising experience, strong communication skills, and a passion for the organization's mission. TransLash offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a fully remote work environment.

Requirements

• Significant fund development experience, with a minimum of two years of experience in a fundraising role, including cultivating and soliciting donors to give $1M+ grants and/or individual major gifts of $100,000+
• Demonstrated experience creating systems, implementing new donor strategies, and working relationships with trans/queer communities
• Strong interpersonal skills and enthusiasm to build trust across donors, departments, staff, and movements
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to speak compellingly about TransLash Media’s impact
• The desire and ability to work in a fast-paced media company, sometimes with quick turnarounds for grant deliverables, in a complex context and detail-focused role
• Self-motivated independent thinker with gifts with initiation, ambition, intuition, and follow-through

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a funding strategy which builds upon TransLash’s success with institutional philanthropy to include the identification and securing of new funding streams, institutional philanthropy, including private foundations, individual wealth holders, and other vehicles that would move resources to TransLash Media
• Work closely with our CEO to craft and execute the development strategy
• Collaborate closely with COO to build Development operations systems and team goals
• Manage the day-to-day relationships and requests with our current donors, alongside our current grants manager
• Coordinate the solicitation process for grants and supervise a small development team, consisting of at least one part-time grants manager, who holds the administrative work of the development team
• Actively partner with TransLash Media’s CEO and leadership team to inform prospect strategies and organization-wide culture
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records and implement a new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database
• Collaborate with the TransLash Media team to build and sustain a culture of generosity and abundance within the entire team
• Hold a working knowledge of current affairs related to trans communities, fundraising policies and best practices, and nonprofit growth strategies
• Serve as a spokesperson for TransLash Media in fundraising spaces

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with effective donor databases or CRM

Benefits

• Health insurance including vision and dental
• Generous PTO
• Sick time
• Holiday schedule including 4 weeks of office closures annually
• Professional coaching
• Fully remote position