Director Of Stewardship And Leadership Giving; Tlcf

Posted on January 09, 2018

The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors seeks an experienced development professional to join our team as the Director of Stewardship and Leadership Giving. The successful candidate will be a skilled relationship builder who understands how to cultivate, solicit, and steward donors who care about health-related issues.

The Director of Stewardship and Leadership Giving will have the opportunity to create and implement a plan for strengthening relationships with existing major donors and growing the organization’s community of support. This person will spend approximately 40% of their time travelling around the country to meet with donors who are making this important work possible, most frequently on the West Coast and in New England.

When not travelling, the Director of Stewardship and Leadership Giving may choose to be based out of either Los Angeles or the Bay Area (Santa Cruz) office, including some time working remotely from their home.

The TLC Foundation’s mission is to end the suffering caused by body-focused repetitive behaviors, such as skin picking and hair pulling. This is a newly created role reporting to the Executive Director with the goal of building upon the success of the organization’s first-ever major gifts campaign, which raised over $2.5M to fund groundbreaking research into promising new treatments, with the hope of one day finding a cure.

The TLC Foundation

Sharing Knowledge. Supporting Recovery. Finding a Cure.

The TLC Foundation for Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors(BFRBs) is a donor-supported, nonprofit organization devoted to ending the suffering caused by hair pulling disorder, skin picking disorder, and related body-focused repetitive behaviors.

TLC takes a comprehensive approach to its mission: creating a community of support for affected individuals; providing referrals to treatment specialists and resources; training professionals to recognize and treat BFRBs; and directing research into their causes, treatment, and prevention.

When TLC was founded in 1991, these disorders were virtually unheard of. There were no educational resources, no support community, and no clinicians or researchers who were expert in the field.

Thanksto the support of TLC members, over the past 25 years, hundreds of therapists have begun specializing in BFRB treatment. Skin picking disorder became a recognized disorder in the DSM-5, the comprehensive diagnostic mental health manual. Support groups have formed and thrived all over the U.S. and increasingly, around the world. Treatment approaches have improved greatly.

Most crucially, millions of people have learned that they are not alone, helping to break the cycle of shame and embarrassment that can lead to painful isolation and emotional distress.

With an annual budget of approximately $1M, TLC is poised to grow its impact over the next several years through new outreach, treatment, and prevention strategies with the goal of more powerfully and compassionately serving people across the country who are affected by this condition.

TLC currently has a staff of nine full and part-time employees. The main office is located in Santa Cruz, CA and the Executive Director and Annual Fund Director work out of Los Angeles. The Board of Directors lives throughout the United States, as do the donors.

For more information about the TLC Foundation, visit our website: www.bfrb.org

Key Responsibilities of the Position

The Director of Stewardship and Leadership Giving will report to the Executive Director and provide leadership and direction to a comprehensive donor stewardship program, having primary responsibility for major gift cultivation and donor stewardship for the organization.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage a major gift portfolio of approximately 100-150 donors, with a focus on increasing philanthropic support from individuals and families of gifts of $5,000+
• Conduct approximately 100 in-person donor visits per year with TLC donors across the country. New England, Los Angeles and San Francisco are largest concentrations of donor areas, with others spread…