Director of Individual Giving
The Jewish Board

Job Info

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Make a bigger difference

At The Jewish Board, we don't just make a difference - we make a bigger difference as we serve 45,000 New Yorkers every year. Join our dedicated team that's been helping communities across New York City for almost 150 years and see just how big of a difference you can make.

Reasons you'll love working with us:

• If you have a particular age range or population you're interested in working with, you can find your niche here. Our clients and staff are as diverse as the city we work in, and include people of all cultures, religions, races, gender expressions, and sexual orientations.

• We're committed to supporting your career development by encouraging mobility and advancement across different program types and jobs.

• With 70 locations throughout the five boroughs, you can work close to where you live.

• Generous vacation time and paid holidays will help you achieve a healthy work/life balance.

• We offer an excellent benefits package with affordable, high-quality health and dental insurance with low co-pays.

• You'll receive ongoing support through high-quality supervision, specialized trainings from our Continuing Education team, and an education benefit.

How you can make a bigger difference:

Join a fun-loving and hard working Development team as the Director of Individual Giving. This exciting, newly created role, will be the staff lead for individual and major gifts at The Jewish Board. Our new Director of Individual Giving will have the opportunity to shape strategy, develop campaigns, and build meaningful philanthropic relationships with major donors.

In partnership with the Chief Development Officer, the Director will be the key staff in identifying, researching, soliciting, and stewarding donors; the Director will also have a portfolio of mid-level and major donors. He/she/they will oversee the acknowledgement and appreciation process, create opportunities for donor education and engagement, and more. The agency and our Board of Trustees is committed to growing Individual Giving in a significant way and the Director of Individual Giving will help chart this course.

Collaborative work is important - and the Director of Individual Giving will frequently partner with colleagues throughout the agency, including others on the Development team, which includes Foundation/Corporate Giving, Special Events, and Volunteer Services.

Some responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Be passionate and enthusiastic about people, philanthropy, and helping donors make a difference for New Yorkers.
• Provide leadership and strategy for Individual Giving at The Jewish Board. Help to double individual giving at the agency in the next several years.
• Identify, cultivate, and secure new mid-level and major donors annually, including both general support and targeted gifts.
• Manage a portfolio of existing mid-level and prospective major donors, including proactively scheduling meetings, site visits, and creating stewardship/engagement events & opportunities.
• Routinely solicit 5 and 6-figure gifts.
• Bring knowledge of - and implement - best practices and new technologies.
• Direct annual appeal strategy, content, and results analysis
• Partner with Chief Development Officer on efforts to engage major donors in the work of the Board's program committees.
• Present regularly to the Development Committee of the Board
• Use data to track and improve our work. Facility with Raisers Edge a plus.
• Be a contributing member of the Development Team, partnering with and supporting colleagues on priority initiatives.

EDUCATIONAL / TRAINING REQUIRED

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent.

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED / LANGUAGE PREFERENCE

• 10+ years of related experience. Knowledge of social services and development/fundraising.
• Experience working with major donors; comfort discussing high-level philanthropy
• This individual must have the ability to work individually on projects as well as be a team player.

COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED (List the computer skills needed):

• Experience with database software like Raisers' Edge a plus

VISUAL AND MANUAL DEXIERITY:

• The candidate should be able to read documents for analytical purposes such as computer information, software, computer graphic design programs, etc.
• Limited applications of manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.

WORK ENVIRONMENT / PHYSICAL EFFORT

• The work environment involves no physical risk or hazardous conditions.
• Occasional evening and weekend hours required; travel throughout the five boroughs may be required for site visits and meetings.
• To perform the essential functions of this job, the candidate is routinely required to sit (85% of the time) and stand (15% of the time)

If you join us, you'll have these great benefits:

• Generous paid time off in addition to agency holidays and 15 sick days
• Affordable and high-quality medical/dental/vision plans
• Tuition assistance and educational loan forgiveness
• Free continuing education opportunities
• 403(b) retirement benefits and a pension
• Flexible spending accounts for health and transportation
• 24/7 Accessible Employee Assistance Program
• Life and disability insurance
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion working groups that are available for you to join, including Confronting Structural Racism (COR), Coalition Against Anti-Semitism (CAAS), and the LGBTQ Steering Committee

Who we are:

The Jewish Board delivers innovative, high-quality, and compassionate mental health and social services to over 45,000 New Yorkers each year. We are unique in serving everyone from infants and their families to children, teens, and adults. We are proud to employ and serve people of all religions, races, cultural backgrounds, gender expressions, and sexual orientations. We are committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams to help support our mission, and we strongly encourage candidates from historically marginalized backgrounds to apply to work with us.

More on Equal Opportunity:

We respect diversity and accordingly are an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, age, disability, sex, gender, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, partnership status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

This applies with respect to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, termination, assignments, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and all other terms and condition of employment as well as general treatment during employment.

We will endeavor to make a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees with disabilities, without regard to any protected classifications, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business. Any employees who need assistance to perform their job duties because of a physical or mental condition should contact human resources.

Other details

• Job Family Program Administration [500s]
• Job Function Directors
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator 8810 - Clerical Office Employees NOC
• Min Hiring Rate $90,000.00
• Max Hiring Rate $115,000.00

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