Director of Development

🕒 August 4

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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PowerLines

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2024

💼 Consulting

🏭 Manufacturing

⚡ Energy

Consulting • Manufacturing • Energy

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

• Develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy focused on family foundations, family offices, donor advised funds, and high-net-worth individuals • Collaborate with executive leadership to integrate fundraising goals with organizational planning and budgeting • Maintain relationships with institutional funders • Identify and research prospective donors and build a robust donor pipeline • Support the Founder and Executive Director in funder meetings, pitches, and fundraising opportunities • Convert policy and media wins into fundraising opportunities • Lead planning and execution of fundraising dinners, gatherings, conferences, and events • Manage stewardship and renewal of existing funder and donor support • Make direct asks for funder contributions • Oversee donor communications, updates, briefings, memos, newsletters, and impact reports • Lead grant proposal development and oversee the grant lifecycle • Prepare presentations, concept papers, proposals, budgets, and reports • Design scalable development systems, databases, CRM processes, and donor-tracking infrastructure • Support onboarding and mentoring of additional fundraising staff

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of fundraising experience • 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 • Comfort making direct asks • Proven donor stewardship and cultivation skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Strategic ability to connect programmatic objectives with donor interests and priorities • Experience crafting pitch decks, concept notes, and proposals • Strong emotional intelligence • Ability to thrive in an early-stage, fast-paced, dynamic, and uncertain startup environment • Ability to identify priorities, function independently, and operate with tight timelines • Passion for modernizing the utility regulatory system to lower utility bills and grow the economy

🏖️ Benefits

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