Fast Facts

City Year is seeking a Development Director responsible for creating and executing fundraising strategies to support educational initiatives in San Antonio, TX.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include donor engagement, securing multi-year funding, managing fundraising events, developing individual giving programs, and collaborating with the leadership team.

Skills: Strong fundraising/development experience, excellent writing and interpersonal skills, familiarity with the San Antonio donor community, and proficiency in Microsoft Office; knowledge of Salesforce preferred.

Qualifications: 5-8 years of progressive fundraising experience, BA/BS required, advanced degrees preferred.

Location: Position based in San Antonio, TX; occasional travel outside the city may be required.

Compensation: $74000 - $80000 / Annually

Application Instructions

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Number of Positions: 1

Position Overview

Director, Development is responsible for designing and executing the Development strategy that will allow City Year to leverage the resources, talents, and skills of the philanthropic sector to build the site and create change in communities across the city.

Job Description

About Us

City Year is an education-focused nonprofit organization that partners with public schools to help keep students in school and on track to graduate. City Year AmeriCorps members commit to a year of full-time service in schools, where they work as tutors, mentors, and role models. Founded in Boston in 1988, City Year works in 25 cities across the United States and has international affiliates in London and Birmingham, England, and Johannesburg, South Africa.

City Year has earned Charity Navigator’s highest rating since 2003, certifying our commitment to accountability, transparency, and responsible fiscal management. Only 1% of charities have received this distinction for nine consecutive years, placing City Year among the most trustworthy nonprofits in America.

Our Service

How We Work:

• Partner with public schools. We work in partnership with school districts to support their goals and provide the additional support – human capital – required to make a difference for students at risk of dropping out. City Year corps members (CMs) serve full-time in grades 3 through 9.
• Target high-need schools and students. Research indicates that students at the highest risk of dropping out can be identified as early as sixth grade. Corps members receive more than 300 hours of professional training to intervene based on three early warning indicators, the ABCs – poor attendance, behavior, and course failure in math and English.
• Harness the power of young people. City Year hires and trains diverse teams of young adults, 18- to 24-year-olds, to give a year of full-time service in schools. Younger than the teachers but older than the pupils, corps members are uniquely positioned to form a strong bond with students and help them succeed. Corps members provide at least 1,700 hours of service each year.

Our Model: Whole School Whole Child (WSWC): City Year’s school-based model is called Whole School Whole Child. Corps members tutor students identified as at-risk of dropping out, serve as an additional resource for teachers in classrooms, and lead after-school programs and school-wide initiatives to improve school culture. Each school where we serve has at least one team of 8-12 corps members, instantly increasing the ratio of adults: children in the building.

Position Overview

Since its founding, City Year has relied on corporate, foundation, and individual partners to create meaningful social change. As the leader of the Development Team, this position is responsible for designing and executing the Development strategy that will allow City Year to leverage the resources, talents, and skills of the philanthropic sector in building San Antonio and creating change in communities across the city. The Development Director will focus on establishing multi-year relationships with donors, identifying new funding sources, and managing existing donor relationships. The Development Director will be responsible for achieving the site’s fundraising goals, including major gift solicitation, grant writing, event planning, as well as the site’s external communications and marketing efforts. The Development Director will serve on the site leadership team, helping to drive and support site-wide initiatives and projects.

Responsibilities

External Relations: Working closely with the Executive Director, planning the strategy of donor engagement across sectors: private, government, and education (state policy, district funding). Serve as a representative of City Year in the external community, attending events frequently. Build meaningful relationships that result in securing both monetary and in-kind multi-year support for City Year.

Implement Growth Campaign: Work with the Executive Director to develop, plan, and implement a campaign to allow for City Year’s continued growth throughout San Antonio. Additionally, development enables execution against City Year’s Long-Term Impact goals.

Individual Giving Program Development: Develop innovative strategies to promote individual giving to City Year. Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of current and future major donors. Refine City Year Giving Circles initiatives and increase participation with individual donor gifts of $10,000+. Work directly with the Executive Director to ensure the annual Advisory Board giving is 100%.

Board Management and Engagement: Work with the Executive Director to manage the Board throughout the year and during quarterly Board meetings. Maintain engagement both financially and otherwise to ensure Board retention and satisfaction.

Corporate and Foundation Management: Establish corporate and foundation strategy and support the regional grant writer with the management of relationships and communication with City Year’s corporate foundation funders. Work to increase corporate and foundation multi-year gifts. 

Fundraising Events: Collaborate with the Development Consultant and the Executive Director to manage special events that raise awareness of City Year, and to fundraise and engage individuals, foundations, and corporations as champions and donors. Events include but are not limited to: City Year San Antonio Gala, Specialty Market Events, and Private Receptions.

City Year Culture: Represent, respect, and role model City Year organizational culture and values daily internally as a member of the site Senior Leadership Team and externally as a representative of the organization.

Organizational Management: Help shape organizational strategy and play a leadership role in implementing the site’s local operating plan as a member of the Senior Leadership Team. Work collaboratively with other site departments frequently and with City Year’s national headquarters in Boston. Manage Development Operations, ensuring accurate maintenance of records and donor information in the Salesforce database and in the local network and paper files.

Basic Qualifications

• 5-8 years of progressive fundraising/development experience with a proven fundraising track record that includes multi-year giving. Comparable experience will be considered.
• BA/BS required. Preference given to MBAs, MPPs, and/or other relevant advanced degrees.
• Solid, persuasive writing skills required. 
• Experience serving on diverse teams required.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills required.
• Knowledge of the San Antonio donor community preferred.
• Strong and efficient use of Microsoft Office required knowledge of the Salesforce platform, a plus.
• Ability to work with diverse groups of young adults in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial team environment.
• Schedule will occasionally require nights and weekends and will involve periods of travel outside San Antonio annually.

Compensation and Benefits

Salary range is $74,000 to $80,000

Compensation commensurate with experience. Great benefits include health insurance with a Flexible Spending Account, paid vacation, holidays, parental leave, 401K, and more.

To Apply

Qualified applicants should apply and submit a resume, cover letter, and references.

Benefits

Full-time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation, sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), and other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click here.

Employment at City Year is at-will. 

City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.