Director of Development

🕒 March 18

🏛️ District of Columbia, Washington – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $150k - $200k / year

⏰ Full Time

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PowerLines

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

⚡ Energy

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Energy • Non-profit • Social Impact

PowerLines is dedicated to modernizing the utility regulatory system in the United States to promote affordable, reliable, and clean energy for consumers. With a focus on the roles of state public utilities commissions, PowerLines aims to enhance consumer protection, improve service quality, and advance economic development within the energy sector. Their approach encompasses people, policy, and process to reshape the energy landscape and advocate for effective utility regulation.

📋 Description

• Design and Lead PowerLines’ Fundraising Strategy • Develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy focused on family foundations, family offices, donor advised funds, and high-net-worth/ultra-high-net-worth individuals • Collaborate with executive leadership to integrate fundraising goals with organizational planning and budgeting • Maintain relationships with institutional funders for PowerLines • Identify and research new potential donors with capacity and affinity to support PowerLines • Build and maintain a robust pipeline of prospective donors through thoughtful cultivation plans • Research and vet new prospective donors that are identified through PowerLines' participation in conferences and events • Support Founder and Executive Director in funder meetings, pitches, and other fundraising opportunities, including development of briefing materials, as needed • Convert PowerLines' policy and media wins into actionable fundraising opportunities • Lead planning and execution of PowerLines dinners, small gatherings, and other events to support fundraising • Attend conferences and events with the objective of meeting new prospective donors • Manage stewardship and renewal of existing foundation, family office, and individual donor support, ensuring timely and meaningful engagement • Make direct asks for potential funder contributions • Build authentic, long-term relationships with funders through regular communication, thank-you notes, follow-ups, events, and personalized outreach • Oversee development-related communications including donor updates, briefings, memos, newsletters, and impact reports • Develop databases, CRM, and processes to ensure efficient and accurate tracking of donor relationships • Lead development of grant proposals for family foundations, family offices, donor-advised funds, and high-net worth individuals in collaboration with Founder and Executive Director • Oversee grant lifecycle after initial development, tracking reporting requirements, amendments, and renewals as needed • Collaborate with other PowerLines team members to prepare compelling materials—presentations, concept papers, proposals, budgets, and reports—that reflect PowerLines’ mission and strategic priorities • Design and implement systems that can scale as the development team grows • Support onboarding and mentoring of additional fundraising staff as hired

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of fundraising experience with a demonstrated record of securing six- and seven-figure gifts from family foundations, family offices, DAFs, and HNW individual donors. • Strong relationships with family foundations, family offices, DAFs, and HNW individual donors • Experience managing significant donor portfolios • Strong degree of comfort in making direct asks • Proven skills in donor stewardship and cultivation • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Strong strategic thinker with the ability to connect the dots between PowerLines’ programmatic objectives and donor interests, motivations, and priorities • Experience crafting compelling pitch decks, concept notes, and proposals for family foundations, family offices, DAFs, and HNW individual donors • Strong emotional intelligence skills, including the ability to understand what motivates prospective donors • Capacity to thrive in an early-stage, fast-paced, dynamic, and uncertain startup environment, including an ability to identify priorities, function independently, and operate with tight timelines • A passion for advancing PowerLines’ mission of modernizing the utility regulatory system to lower utility bills and grow the economy through a consumer-centered lens

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited PTO • Paid holidays • Health insurance • 401k employer match • Sick leave • Health and wellness benefits