Director of Development - Cincinnati, United States - Restavek Freedom

Description

Focused on ending child slavery in Haiti, Restavek Freedom Foundation seeks a Development Director who will be responsible for developing and implementing a strategy to grow revenues to 5M in 5 years. This will involve cultivating strong relationships with a broad base of existing and prospective funders.

The position will be based in Cincinnati, OH and report to the President and Executive Director.

Over 300,000 children in Haiti live the life of a restavek, a Kreyol term meaning to stay with that masks the brutal reality of a life of servitude, abuse and lack of education and affection.

The Restavek Foundation exists to bring an end to child servitude in Haiti. We believe that a broken system can be fixed. We believe that education and awareness will create a new reality for Haiti and we believe that if we give these children a voice we can give them hope for a better future.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Implementation

• Create a strategic and diversified fundraising plan to grow 20% a year in revenue, from $2.9M to $5M in 5 years
• Set, monitor and analyze annual revenue targets for each category of giving, providing regular revenue updates to the Executive Director

Fundraising Activities

build and maintain a portfolio of funding partners for general operations and project-based funding from individuals, foundations, churches, government agencies and multi-lateral organizations to build life long donor relationships

• Child Advocacy/Individual Donors develop a plan to increase child sponsors from 400 to 800 sponsors per year and increase small gift donations, year over year;
  
• Church Relations develop strategies to increase financial partnership and unrestricted, multi-year giving from current and prospective church partners;
  
• Institutional Donors oversee the development of compelling and competitive requests for funding, manage a grant tracking system to ensure completion an delivery of reports to funders, and maintain detailed records of proposal submissions and reporting activities;
  
• Event Planning plan and execute an annual fundraising event with a cadre of committed volunteers.
  

Social Media Marketing:

implement and strengthen social medial marketing programs to expanding fundraising opportunities

Strategic Communication

identify and facilitate strategic public relations opportunities

Donor Data Management

make full use of Blackbaud database to manage donors.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree required; graduate degree in business or public administration, international affairs or related areas preferred
• Demonstrated success in fundraising, whether professional or equivalent community experience
• Strong strategic and project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills to persuasively articulate the
• mission and work of Restavek Freedom Foundation to a diverse audience
• Self-starter with an ability to thrive and work effectively either alone or as part of a small team in a fast-paced and rapidly growing organization, with limited instruction
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, the ability to prioritize and organize multiple projects, meet deadlines, problem-solve, and handle numerous tasks concurrently
• Excellent computer skills, specifically MS Office products and donor management software
• Passion for social justice

Desired Qualities

• 1-2 years of experience in international affairs and/or cross cultural experience
• High standard of personal integrity
• Compelling conversationalist, intelligent listener and positive demeanor
• Comfortable in diverse settings
• Experience in public speaking
• Haitian Creole and/or French language skills a plus

If interested, please send resumes to