Director of Donor Engagement

In 2002, HousingPlus opened its doors to six families and six single women who had been incarcerated and homeless and needed safe housing and assistance to re-enter the community. We handed each woman a key to her own apartment. Our hallmark is our unwavering commitment to addressing the lack of housing and services for historically underserved and marginalized NYC women and their children, including female veterans, justice-involved women, and women with histories of mental health challenges, sexual abuse, domestic violence, substance use, chronic illness, adverse childhood experiences, and other trauma. By 2028, HousingPlus will work with over 500 women and female-led households.

MISSION:

Our mission is to provide community-based housing and comprehensive services to women, including women with children, to support them in overcoming poverty, homelessness, addiction, trauma, and the effects of incarceration, to build lives of stability, and to define and realize goals for themselves and their families.

SCOPE:

The Director of Donor Engagement will plan and implement a strategy to maximize HousingPlus’ support from individual donors. In collaboration with the Vice President of Development and Communications, the position shares responsibility for meeting the growth goals for individual donors in line with the Strategic Plan. The Director will focus on exceptional stewardship of current major and annual giving donors, cultivating annual giving donors to a higher level of giving, acquiring new donors, and building and managing the planned giving program. The ideal candidate will have successfully created and managed all annual giving and direct mail, handled a major gifts portfolio, and have experience and enthusiasm for leading an organization to new success levels.

Requirements

Major Responsibility #1 (70%): Meeting/surpassing annual revenue targets, retaining and cultivating a current donor base, acquiring new donors, and stewarding all donors to the next level of giving.

Key Tasks:

• Ensure individual donor revenue goals and metrics are met annually.

• Manage the annual giving program to implement the strategic plan for identifying and cultivating new individual donors at all giving levels with significantly increasing goals in the next three years. Individual giving initiatives include direct mail, developing and testing a mid-level donor group, and social media support as appropriate.

• Work with the Development and Communications Associate to ensure appropriate gift processing and acknowledgments of major gifts, including internal notifications as necessary.

• Keep current on program and service initiatives across HousingPlus. Maintain strong internal relationships with programs and other internal staff to create working partnerships to engage the donor community successfully.

• Coordinate an effective program for recognition, involvement, and stewardship of major and special gifts with the VP for Development and Communications.

Major Responsibility #2 (15%): Manage a personal portfolio of mid-level donors

Key Tasks:

• Meet budgeted metrics for revenue, donor outreach, and moves management.

• Maintain an active donor meetings/contacts schedule to maximize donor interests and relationships.

• Write call reports and input information into the database to create a history of interaction with each donor/prospect.

Major Responsibility #3 (15%): Oversee planned giving program

Key Tasks:

• Review and renew planned giving activities. This includes the coordination and implementation of a comprehensive giving program focused on building membership in the HousingPlus Legacy Society as well as a focus on annuities and other planned giving vehicles.

• Oversee the marketing and stewardship activities related to planned giving. This will include the management of mailings and solicitations, and the coordination of any cultivation events.

Benefits

• Salary Range: $90,000 - $93,000
• Hybrid Work Schedule
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Account, Commuter Benefits
• 403(b) Retirement Plan and Matching Program
• Supplemental Insurance
• Access to discounted entertainment benefits