Associate Development Director, Individual Giving

Overview

Join a diverse, fun team passionate about creating healthier and more just communities as Faith in Place’s Associate Development Director, Individual Giving. The Associate Development Director, Individual Giving will join the Development Team as the fourth member of a collaborative team that secures the financial resources to fund Faith in Place and support the Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin communities we serve.

The position of Associate Development Director, Individual Giving, which reports to Faith in Place’s Development Director, will have significant fundraising responsibilities as part of the Development Team’s work to meet annual budgetary revenue goals. If you have six or more years of professional experience in individual donor solicitation, stewardship, and prospecting, along with a deep passion for environmental and climate justice, then we want to hear from you!

• Overall responsibility for identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual donors.
• Develop and implement data-driven strategies to increase yearly individual giving revenue from $300,000 (FY 2025 goal) to $500,000 (FY 2028 goal).
• Manage spring and end-of-year annual fundraising campaigns.
• Monitor and improve donor thanking to ensure all individual donors are thanked promptly, effectively, and consistently.
• Design and implement donor stewardship events, with initial focus on Sustainers Circle major donors.
• Write individual donor fundraising proposals and reports.
• Increase planned giving, including legacy gifts (bequests).
• Participate in other Development Team activities, such as corporate funder solicitation and foundation grant reporting.
• Supervise up to 1 development staff person.

• Required Qualifications:
• Live in Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin at time of job application and, if hired, as employee.
• At least 6-8 years of successful experience in major gifts, annual giving, donor stewardship, and/or planned giving.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, including ability to communicate effectively and work with individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, religions, and political beliefs.
• Excellent analytical and project management skills.
• Experience with donor database and CRM systems.
• Excellent skills in standard business computer applications.
• Passion for environmental and climate justice.

• Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree. Significant employment experience relevant to the position may be substituted.

This is a full-time Exempt position. Most work is done during a standard workday, with some evening or weekend activities. For any time worked outside regular work hours, comp time will be provided.

Faith in Place is a multi-faith, environmental nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization with community-based outreach staff working throughout Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Faith in Place’s mission is to cultivate a powerful multi-faith movement working for environmental justice through connection, education, and advocacy.

Faith in Place partners with communities of faith from diverse religious traditions, as well as with people who identify as spiritual or motivated by justice but do not identify with a specific faith tradition.

Faith in Place organizes faith leaders, groups, and members to advance our mission by starting and coaching Green Teams. Green Teams are three or more members of a house of worship who provide cooperative leadership to educate, connect, and advocate for environmental and racial justice within the context of their community’s unique culture, history, and theological practices.

All Faith in Place staff also contribute part of their working hours to Faith in Place Action Fund, a separate 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization. Faith in Place Action Fund raises memberships and motivates lobbying for environmental justice. Faith in Place Action Fund uses several tools to hold candidates and elected officials accountable to create more environmental justice jobs throughout the Midwest. These tools include grassroots lobbying, legislator scorecards, questionnaires, interviews, and candidate…