Senior Director, Fundraising Strategy

Job Description

Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.

The Stand Together development team brings top business leaders together to solve our country’s biggest problems through financial and strategic leadership of our most cutting-edge programs and investments. Stand Together’s high-performing major gifts program helps hundreds of donor partners actively participate in the programs they support, advancing our shared priorities through robust, year-round engagement.

As the Senior Director, Fundraising Strategy, you will build and lead the team that coordinates the execution of major Stand Together fundraising initiatives, focused on multi-year, $10mm+ projects. This includes building and executing marketing frameworks and donor engagement plans, and evaluating progress against goals.

The Senior Director, Fundraising Strategy will integrate events, communications, partner engagement, and programmatic strategy to execute comprehensive fundraising plans on both short- (6-12 months) and multi-year timelines.

Your Responsibilities Include

• Manage the daily operations of the Fundraising Strategy team, including fundraising execution, partner leadership engagement, and giving societies.
• Build a team to develop and execute comprehensive fundraising strategies to support priority investments.
• Collaborate with head of fundraising strategy and key Stand Together leaders to leverage resources across the organization for fundraising and development efforts.
• Contribute to and execute strategies to help partners engage strategically to expand their contribution beyond financial resources.
• Leverage data and business intelligence to improve the performance of priority fundraising strategies.
  
  

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

• 10+ years of demonstrated leadership and strategy implementation specific to high-net worth donors/clients and growth goals.
• Proven supervisory experience with a demonstrated background in cultivating and developing talent.
• Experience in a value-focused relationship management environment such as major gifts fundraising, consulting, or business development.
• High collaboration and ability to drive multiple concurrent projects with diverse stakeholders to completion through continuous transformation and an entrepreneurial approach.
• High level of humility and integrity.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, professionalism, and ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders.
• Proficient with CRM technology, including Salesforce.
  
  

What We Offer

• A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans – especially the least fortunate
• A vision-driven community of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others
• Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve
• Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting
• Competitive health and wellness benefits
• Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed
• A purchasing credit card to use for business expenses
• Mileage reimbursement for business travel separate from your commute
• Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro)
• Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs
  
  

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference. Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.

Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management® (PBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.

We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.