Senior Development Officer

🔥 57 minutes ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $110k - $130k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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Vision To Learn

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2012

🏥 Healthcare

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

Healthcare • Non-profit • Education

Vision To Learn is a nonprofit that provides vision screenings, comprehensive eye exams, and free eyeglasses to students in low-income communities through school-based and mobile clinic programs across the United States, removing cost and access barriers so children can see clearly and succeed in school.

📋 Description

• Lead stewardship planning for an assigned portfolio of individual donors, foundations, and corporate partners • Develop tailored stewardship plans based on donor interests, giving history, relationship stage, and engagement channels • Ensure timely acknowledgments, impact updates, reports, recognition, and other donor touchpoints • Coordinate donor meetings, briefings, site visits, events, preparation, staffing, and follow-up • Partner with the Chief Growth Officer, President and CEO, board members, and organizational leaders on high-value donor engagement • Manage donors and prospects through identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, renewal, and upgrade • Create and maintain relationship strategies, next actions, target asks, timelines, and ownership • Facilitate portfolio and pipeline reviews and surface stalled relationships, opportunities, risks, and decisions • Maintain accurate donor, prospect, gift, contact, and activity records in Salesforce or the designated development CRM • Develop donor communications and stewardship calendars • Draft and edit personalized outreach, acknowledgments, thank-you letters, impact updates, briefings, proposals, reports, and renewal communications • Translate program activity, data, and stories into compelling donor communications • Cultivate, solicit, and steward assigned individual and institutional donors and prospects • Prepare tailored funding opportunities and asks aligned with donor interests and organizational priorities • Support grant proposals, reports, renewals, and funder communications • Represent Vision To Learn in donor and funder meetings, regional events, site visits, and external engagements • Collaborate with Communications, Operations, Finance, Human Resources, and program teams • Monitor portfolio health, including contacts, next steps, retention, renewals, upgrades, pipeline movement, and data quality • Provide the Chief Growth Officer with updates on portfolio progress, opportunities, risks, and resource needs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required • Minimum of 5 years of fundraising and development experience, including direct responsibility for donor stewardship, portfolio management, and donor communications • Demonstrated ability to apply moves-management practices and advance individual and institutional donor relationships through multiple stages of engagement • Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to translate complex program information into clear, compelling, and donor-centered communications • Experience cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donors and funders • Strong relationship-management skills and sound judgment when working with donors, executives, board members, and colleagues across functions • Exceptional organization, project management, attention to detail, and follow-through across multiple relationships and deadlines • Ability to use data and portfolio insights to prioritize activity, evaluate progress, and improve donor engagement • Proficiency with development CRM systems; Salesforce experience preferred • Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a geographically distributed organization • Ability to travel regularly for donor engagement, site visits, regional events, and organizational meetings • Passion for Vision To Learn’s mission