The Director Fund Development at AdHoc Group Against Crime, leads fundraising initiatives that strengthen the organization’s financial sustainability and deepen relationships with donors, partners, and the community. This role develops and executes a diversified fundraising strategy spanning individual giving, donor stewardship, special events, foundation and corporate grants, and written appeals.
The ideal candidate is a strategic relationship-builder and persuasive writer who can manage multiple deadlines, maintain accurate records, and translate the organization’s mission and program outcomes into compelling cases for support.

Key Responsibilities Include:
Donor Engagement and Stewardship

• Build and manage a portfolio of individual, corporate, foundation, and community donors.
• Create donor cultivation, solicitation, recognition, and stewardship plans that encourage retention and increased giving.
• Prepare personalized communications, impact updates, appeals, and donor acknowledgments.
• Partner with organizational leaders and board members to identify prospects, make introductions, and support donor meetings.
• Maintain timely, accurate donor records, contact reports, gift documentation, and follow-up activities.

Event Planning and Execution

• Plan and execute fundraising and donor-engagement events from concept through evaluation.
• Develop event goals, budgets, timelines, sponsorship packages, guest strategies, and work plans.
• Coordinate venues, vendors, volunteers, speakers, communications, registration, and on-site logistics.
• Track event revenue and expenses, evaluate results, and recommend improvements for future events.

Grant Management and Grant Writing

• Research and qualify government, foundation, and corporate funding opportunities aligned with organizational priorities.
• Develop persuasive letters of inquiry, grant proposals, budgets, supporting materials, and renewal requests.
• Manage a grants calendar with submission dates, reporting requirements, award periods, and renewal milestones.
• Coordinate with program and finance staff to gather accurate outcomes, data, budgets, and compliance documentation.
• Monitor grant deliverables and restrictions, maintain complete grant files, and submit timely narrative and financial reports.
• Track proposal outcomes and analyze grant performance to improve future submissions.

Fund Development Strategy and Operations

• Help create and implement an annual fund development plan with measurable revenue, engagement, and retention goals.
• Develop fundraising campaigns and materials that communicate the organization’s mission, programs, outcomes, and funding needs.
• Monitor fundraising progress, prepare regular reports, and identify risks and opportunities.
• Support ethical fundraising practices, donor confidentiality, gift acceptance procedures, and applicable requirements.
• Collaborate across departments to ensure consistent messaging and a positive donor experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Three or more years of nonprofit fundraising, development, advancement, or closely related experience.
• Demonstrated experience cultivating and stewarding donors and building long-term relationships.
• Proven success planning fundraising or donor-engagement events, including budgets, vendors, timelines, and follow-up.
• Strong grant writing and grant management experience, including prospect research, proposal development, compliance tracking, and reporting.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong project management, organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage concurrent deadlines.
• Ability to handle donor information with discretion and sound judgment.
• Proficiency with donor databases or constituent relationship management systems and standard workplace productivity tools.

Preferred

• Three or more years of experience supporting annual giving, major gifts, sponsorships, or capital campaigns.
• Experience working with nonprofit boards, volunteers, and cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with fundraising ethics, gift acknowledgment practices, and grant compliance requirements.

• Progress toward annual fundraising revenue and pipeline goals.
• Donor retention, engagement, and movement through the cultivation cycle.
• Quality, timeliness, and success rate of grant submissions and reports.
• Event performance against revenue, attendance, sponsorship, and expense goals.
• Accuracy and completeness of donor and grant records.

Work Environment

How to Apply

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