Development Director, Individual Giving and Major Gifts

National Center for Youth Law   

The National Center for Youth Law (NCYL) amplifies youth power,dismantles racism and other structural inequities, and builds justpolicies, practices, and culture in support of young people. Ourefforts advance justice through research, community collaboration,impact litigation, and policy advocacy that fundamentallytransforms our nation’s approach to education, health, immigration,foster care, and youth justice. Our vision is a world in whichevery young person thrives and has a full and fair opportunity toachieve the future they envision for themselves.   

Development Team  

The Development Team’s mission is to ensure that NCYL has thefinancial resources needed to pursue its mission and vision, and touphold NCYL’s inclusive, youth-centered, strengths-based, andequity-focused values in all fundraising efforts and activities.NCYL’s Development Team is raising $20M+ annually from foundations,government agencies, corporations, law firms, and individuals. Weinspire NCYL supporters and educate them about NCYL’s values,impact, and work and build community and nurture strongrelationships among NCYL board members, staff, alumni, andsupporters through fundraising efforts.   

Position 

This is an excellent opportunity for someone to leverage theirfundraising experience and abilities to improve the lives ofchildren, including immigrants, LGBTQIA youth, those in the childwelfare or justice systems, children and their families who areexperiencing homelessness, and much more. This position will reportto the Senior Philanthropy Director. 

Essential Functions 

• Oversee NCYL’sfundraising efforts, including individual donors, major donors, lawfirm giving and more. 

• Ensure that individualdonors are inspired by NCYL’s mission and vision and are activelyengaged in funding the advancement of our goals. 

• Build strongrelationships with donors and major donors and support theExecutive Director, staff, and board in doing the same. Serve asthe primary contact for donors. 

• ​​​Oversee all aspectsof individual giving, including annual fundraising campaigns,research, identification, cultivation, solicitation, andstewardship of prospective and current donors. 

• Work with the SeniorDirector of Philanthropy to develop and carry out a comprehensiveand actionable Major Gifts plan. 

• ​​​Manage a portfolio ofindividual major donors, moving these donors to give increasinglylarger, multi-year gift commitments. 

• Leverage board membersto engage in fundraising. 

• Collaborate with theSenior Director of Communications on strategic messaging anddigital fundraising and to raise the organization'sprofile. 

• Supervise keydevelopment staff. 

• Develop a deepunderstanding of NCYL’s programmatic work to ensure accuraterepresentation of our work to donors and the public. 

Qualifications 

• ​​​Proven track recordof raising large six figure, multi-year commitments from newsources. 

• ​​​3 years’ experiencesupervising development team members. 

• Experience building amajor donor program. 

• Strong leadershipexperience with the demonstrated ability to mentor and build theskills of staff. 

• Computer proficiency andan aptitude for learning new systems and software. 

• Familiarity withSalesforce or other CRMs and grant management tools. 

• Understanding of thefunding landscape and the ability to locate opportunities for theorganization. 

• Outstandingcommunication skills, both verbal and written. 

• Able to ​​occasionallywork weekends and evenings. 

• Able to travel toattend funder meetings and participate in quarterly team retreatsand occasional meetings with leadership at headquarters. 

PhysicalRequirements  

Prolonged periodssitting at a desk and working on a computer. This position mayrequire some travel. 

Salary,Benefits, and Location  

This is afull-time, exempt position with a competitive salary of $163,379.00annually. A geographic salary differential may be applied if thecandidate resides somewhere other than the Oakland, CA, LosAngeles, CA, New York City, or Washington, DC metro areas. Thismeans that the salary would be reduced if the candidate resides inan area where the cost of labor is less than that of the SanFrancisco Bay Area. 

NCYL provides arobust benefits package including health, dental, vision, and lifeinsurances, generous vacation and sick benefits, paid family leave,flexible spending account, employer contribution to a retirementplan, paid sabbatical, and short-term and long-term disabilityinsurance. 

There isa strong preference for candidates to reside in the Oakland, CA,Los Angeles, CA, New York City, or Washington, DC metroareas. 

NCYL isregistered to do business in the following 13 locations: Arizona,California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts,Michigan, New York, Oregon, Virginia, Washington, DC, andWisconsin. If a candidate is hired but lives in a state where NCYLis not currently registered to do business, their start date mayneed to be delayed until registration can be completed in the newstate. This process may take as much as three months tocomplete. 

It is anticipated but not guaranteed that NCYL’s remote workapproach will be in place through 2026. If this policy is revokedprior to 2026, staff will be given at least one year's noticebefore being recalled to a NCYL office. 
 

All positions at NCYL are at-will and paid for by grants anddonations, thus employment with NCYL will be contingent uponcontinued receipt of funding. Nothing in the statement changes theat-will employment relationship. 

How toApply 

Please submit acover letter and resume at the link below. Please, noemails or calls. 

Applyat: https://recruiting.paylocity.com/Recruiting/Jobs/Details/2636691 

Applicantswith lived experience within any of our practice areas, and Black,Indigenous, and other people of color, are strongly encouraged toapply. 

It is thepolicy of NCYL to provide equal employment opportunities to allApplicants (including Employees) regardless of race, ethnicity,sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy,breastfeeding, national origin, age, abilities/disabilities,neurotypicality, socioeconomic status, veteran status, maritalstatus, prior convictions, or any other protected classificationsunder federal, state, or local law.