Senior Development Manager

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🕒 April 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $94.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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WITNESS

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 1992

🤲 Charity

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 Seed Round on 2016-11

Charity • Non-profit • Social Impact

WITNESS is an organization that empowers individuals to utilize video and technology to advocate for and defend human rights. By supporting activists and citizens who document injustices, WITNESS aims to ensure that their efforts to reveal the truth are effective. The organization leads a global movement to use video as a tool for social change, focusing on creating impactful initiatives around documenting human rights violations and enhancing protections against misinformation.

📋 Description

• Lead on prospect identification, qualification, and portfolio growth • Systematically research and identify new, high-potential trusts and foundations, and corporate partners whose missions or interests align with WITNESS’ work. • Analyze the current institutional funding portfolio to identify "warm" opportunities for increased investment, multi-year renewals, or expanded programmatic support. • Qualify prospects and existing partners based on their capacity, connection, and interest to ensure a strong potential for a major investment. • Rigorously assess the prospect's programmatic fit, ensuring their interests are a high-value match for WITNESS's current and future funding priorities. • Lead regular meetings with the Director of External Relations to review pipeline progress, highlight emerging risks, and forecast potential revenue. • Actively seek out referrals and monitor sector news to uncover "warm" leads. • Commission external research to grow understanding of new markets that are relevant to WITNESS’ work and growth. • Lead the development of first-in-class cultivation strategies to engage and secure major support from a range of sources • Work with the Director of External Relations to lead and develop high-impact, tailored cultivation strategies to meaningfully engage top prospects and current high-value donors. • Support the solicitation process for newly identified partnerships and major grant renewals, including writing tailored proposals, developing presentation decks, and preparing case materials. • Support growth management and uplifts for existing partners • Oversee the drafting of accurate, timely and compelling donor reports (narrative and financial), in line with their requirements, to demonstrate the impact of their donations.

🎯 Requirements

• A minimum of 6-8 years of experience in Fundraising, with a focus on institutional giving, statutory funding, corporate giving, or philanthropy; • Proven success in securing gifts, including grants, of six-figures upwards from a range of trusts and foundations or high-value donors; • Experience in generating new business in a global, non-profit organisation working on human rights or technology for good sectors; • Experience producing high quality, funder-facing written communications; • Experience maintaining and building relationships with high-value supporters and/or stakeholders. • A minimum of 2 years of management experience; • Demonstrated relationship-building and problem-solving skills; • Excellent interpersonal skills; • Strong organisational skills; • High attention to detail and precision in all work. • Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with a high degree of professionalism and authority; • Experience working with remote teams and collaborating across geographic, and cultural boundaries. • High proficiency of written and spoken English; Additional languages are a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements