Caring Across Generations Development Director : New York

Caring Across Generations

Caring Across Generations Development Director

Based in New York City, NY

About Caring Across Generations
Caring Across Generations is a national campaign of family caregivers, and people touched by care working to transform the way we provide care in this country, and create an inclusive society that helps all of us reach our full potential, live well, and age with dignity.

Led by Sarita Gupta and Ai-jen Poo (the executive directors of Jobs with Justice and the National Domestic Workers Alliance, respectively), we take an explicitly intersectional approach to our work, connecting the dots between immigration reform, gender equality, racial and economic justice, and the growing needs of our aging population.

Position Summary
As the Development Director, you will be responsible for the overall strategic direction, leadership, and management of all fundraising activities designed to broaden awareness of and support for Caring Across Generations. An ideal candidate understands our issues and what it takes to build and sustain grassroots power and movements. You are hungry to grow our 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) budget by 50% over the next 3 years to power our grassroots work in 16 states, while also leveraging the success of the campaign to build our individual donor base.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a high-level funding strategy for the campaign.
• Support the Co-Executive Directors in leveraging their platforms and networks to raise funds.
• Collaborate regularly with staff team and grassroots leaders to leverage our work into fundraising opportunities.
• Establish strong relationships with funders and donors.
• Drive all LOIs, proposals, and reports.
• Renew and enhance current revenue from foundations.
• Engage a sizable new pool of individual donors and increasing support from existing major donors.
• Collaborate with our digital team to build an online grassroots donor base to increase donations each year.
• Plan and execute regular funder meetings designed to encourage strategic input from current funders/donors and to cultivate potential funders/donors.

Qualifications

• Strong social justice lens and an appetite to undo racism, sexism, misogyny, classism, ableism, homophobia, xenophobia, and other forms of oppression.
• 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) experience preferred.
• Knowledge of key campaign issues, including aging, paid and unpaid care work, women and low-wage work, consumer-directed care, disability rights, and immigration.
• Demonstrated results in securing funding from individuals, corporations and/or foundations.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, foster and sustain relationships with program officers of institutions and with individual donors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to produce quality work in a flexible and fast-paced environment.
• Availability for travel.

Caring Across Generations is fiscally sponsored by Bend the Arc. Caring Across Generations and Bend the Arc provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment, and encourages applications from women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

Caring Across Generations is actively building a campaign of those who have been touched by and are connected to caregiving families.

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understand the scope of the position. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of skills, efforts, duties, or responsibilities associated with the position.

BENEFITS
Full benefits, excellent vacation and family leave policies.

To Apply
Send résumé to johnpokeefe@hotmail.com.

O’Keefe Search
336-350-8337
johnpokeefe@hotmail.com

O’Keefe Search is dedicated to building strength in progressive organizations and to helping social justice and labor activists find the right job.

We work extensively with organizers, communicators, researchers and their managers, to help match candidates with their ideal jobs.

John O’Keefe has specialized in recruiting for progressive organizations for over fifteen years. Prior to spending five years as Recruiting Director for 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, the largest local labor union in the country, he spent 20 years helping high tech companies grow and was acknowledged as one of the top recruiters in the United States. Besides running a highly successful search firm, he served as the President of the Texas Association of Personnel Consultants, the largest state association in the industry and as President of the Pinnacle Society, an organization of the top 75 recruiters in the United States.

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