Development Manager

Summary

Join iMentor as a Development Manager and play a key role in executing institutional fundraising and stewardship strategies. You will collaborate with a 10-person team, reporting to the Managing Director of Institutional Giving, supporting a portfolio of institutional funders. Responsibilities include grant proposal preparation, report writing, donor communication, and managing grant compliance. The ideal candidate is an analytical thinker, strong writer, and skilled storyteller, capable of translating data into compelling content. This hybrid role offers exciting career advancement potential and contributes to iMentor's nationwide impact. While remote work is considered, in-person work in NYC, Chicago, or Baltimore is required two days a week for candidates in those cities.

Requirements

• 5 years of work experience with 3+ years' experience in relevant field with demonstrated success in grant and proposal writing, development, member/constituent services, or journalism/public relations; experience in the nonprofit sector a must
• Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate clear, persuasive, and concise thoughts
• Understanding of fundraising landscape and fluency with effective donor communications practices
• Proven track record of successful internal and external relationship management with ability to propel connections toward mutually beneficial outcomes
• Deeply collaborative with the ability to support multiple staff across geographies and departments. Flexible and adaptive to effectively manage changing priorities and new opportunities
• Displays exceptional project management skills while balancing multiple, complex projects in a highly deadline-driven environment
• Takes a solutions-based, collaborative approach to drive change in work and navigate challenges
• Quick learner who demonstrates an eagerness to continually strengthen their understanding of iMentor’s work and seeks to hone written communication skills
• Demonstrated alignment with iMentor's mission, values, and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

Responsibilities

• Write exceptional grant proposals and reports, letters of inquiry, internal briefing documents and memos, and other donor materials, that effectively and succinctly capture iMentor’s work and impact
• Proactively manage internal grants calendar and schedule to ensure proposals, deliverables and reports are submitted on time, and work across iMentor departments to ensure grant requirements are met in a timely and coordinated fashion
• Update and maintain iMentor’s Salesforce database of institutional funders and prospects, and ensure accuracy of recording funder histories, activities, and profiles
• Work with development team to steward donors through communications, presentations, outreach, site visits and donor appreciation
• Research corporations, foundations and government grant makers, for strategic alignment
• Support the execution of cultivation strategies by drafting e-mail outreach, meeting agendas, meeting talking points, presentation decks, meeting follow-up, and other ad-hoc collateral for both prospective and current funders
• Proactively manage internal moves management including logging meetings, tasks and deliverables
• Build relationships with key departments across iMentor to aggregate, package, and present data and information that will strongly align with the grant-making priorities and mission-based interests of each prospective partner and donor
• Manage stewardship calendar and schedule to ensure that we are designing and executing on a comprehensive touchpoint strategy throughout the year for institutional donors
• Provide coordinative support for donor engagement and stewardship events, site visits, etc. (includes some weeknight evenings and limited travel)

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong researcher and relationship mapper; experience with philanthropy research tools such as LinkedIn Sales Navigator, Candid, ProPublica, etc. preferred
• Salesforce experience preferred

Benefits

• Salary range $70,000 - $75,000 annually, commensurate with experience
• Up to 100% employer funded comprehensive medical and dental coverage
• 18 days paid annual vacation (increasing annually to 21, 23, 25), 13 paid holidays + your birthday + one floating holiday, iMentor closed between Christmas and New Year’s Day, plus 6-7 sick days annually
• 401K match up to 4%
• Remote candidates are considered
• If based residing in one of iMentor’s base cities (NYC, Chicago or Baltimore) prepared to work in-person at one of the iMentor offices
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• Dependent care and health care flexible spending plans
• 1 hour of wellness time off per week for wellness activities of your choosing
• Flexible personnel wellness budget for reimbursements or marketplace purchases
• Every staff member is eligible for organization-sponsored professional development annually
• 9 weeks of paid parental leave
• $70,000 - $75,000 a year