Director, Donor Engagement, Stand Together, Arlington, VA
Director, Donor Engagement
Job description
Stand Together is a dynamic and mission-driven organization committed to driving positive social change and empowering individuals to overcome barriers. Join our team and be part of a collaborative community that values innovation, personal responsibility, and the power of bottom-up solutions. Together, we will create a society that fosters opportunity, dignity, and well-being for all.
The Stand Together development team brings top business leaders together to solve our country's biggest problems through financial and strategic leadership of our most cutting-edge programs and investments. Stand Together's high-performing major gifts program helps hundreds of donor partners actively participate in the programs they support, advancing our shared priorities through robust, year-round engagement.
The Director, Donor Engagement will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies to support donors contributing their experience, strategic guidance, and networks to increase the effectiveness of Stand Together's strategies.
To be successful, the person in the role must build strong knowledge of Stand Together donor partners' interests, passions, networks, and capabilities, with a focus on helping the group engage and lead substantively within our programmatic strategies.
Your Responsibilities Include
- Build shared vision for donor engagement across the Stand Together community, in collaboration with key leaders.
- Build and lead a team to identify top programmatic opportunities within Stand Together investments and build scaled strategies to match donor partners into roles where their sustained leadership can improve our performance.
- Collaborate with the Partnerships team (Major Gifts) to identify and align individual donor partners who can advance Stand Together's priorities within program investments based on their background, interests, networks, and mutual benefit (with partners achieving their goals for positive social change, and our strategies benefiting from their extraordinary capabilities).
- Partner with the communications and marketing teams to create and execute communications and outreach plans to sustain partner engagement in advisory councils and other opportunities.
- 5+ years in a development or high-level client engagement function.
- Proactive, entrepreneurial, and operates with a high sense of urgency.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills, professionalism, and ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders with a high degree of humility and discretion.
- Ability to drive program and project management for multiple concurrent projects/funding opportunities to completion through continuous transformation and an entrepreneurial approach.
- Experience in major gift fundraising and advisory board engagement.
- Proven supervisory experience with a demonstrated background in cultivating and developing talent.
- High knowledge and alignment around Stand Together's vision and values.
Standout Candidates Will Have
- A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans - especially the least fortunate
- A vision-driven community of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others
- Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve
- Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting
- Competitive health and wellness benefits
- Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed
- A purchasing credit card to use for business expenses
- Mileage reimbursement for business travel separate from your commute
- Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our headquarters (on-site parking or metro)
- Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs
- Experience in major gift fundraising and advisory board engagement.
- Proven supervisory experience with a demonstrated background in cultivating and developing talent.
- High knowledge and alignment around Stand Together's vision and values.
Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference. Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential. Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds-including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy-to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.
Our Values Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Principle Based Management (PBM ). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, PBM prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.
We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That's why we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color,race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.