Director of Individual Giving

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🕒 March 17

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Climate Defiance

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Social Impact

Climate Defiance is a grassroots direct-action climate organization that stages civil disobedience and coordinated campaigns to block fossil fuel infrastructure and pressure political targets. The group organizes volunteers and supporters across U. S. cities, runs training series, solicits donations (including tax-deductible gifts to its 501(c)(3)), and emphasizes militant, non-petition strategies to halt new gas exports and other fossil fuel projects.

📋 Description

• build plans for the individual donor program • build the systems for the major donor program • manage a portfolio of 75+ current and prospective donors • grow the base of individual donors • deepen relationships with individual donors • oversee a development team member focused on event planning • coordinate with the Executive Director for fundraising efforts • develop systems to cultivate, steward, and track donor relationships • engage with attendees from VIP events and facilitate introductions • maintain the donor database and analyze trends • provide support around other organizational initiatives, such as staff recruitment • participate in Climate Defiance's leadership team and provide strategic input

🎯 Requirements

• at least three years of experience in development and individual giving programs, preferably in a nonprofit setting • passion about addressing the climate crisis • experience managing and growing a portfolio of individual donors • successfully securing gifts up to and including 5-figures • understanding of cultivating and nurturing meaningful relationships with donors • experience in scaling up a major donor program • success in identifying new high-capacity prospects, including related research • comfortable and excited to travel for donor events and meetings • results-driven, entrepreneurial, excited to join a fast-paced setting • preferred experience in advocacy, grassroots organizing, or campaign setting • preferred fundraising experience for environmental issues, including climate change

🏖️ Benefits

• unlimited vacation time (with 20 days plus Christmas week encouraged) • group health care • 401(k) with a 7% employer contribution