Location: Silver Spring, MD
Description: The Public Lands Alliance (PLA) believes that parks, forests, and wildlife refuges need community-based nonprofit organizations to help preserve and enrich them. Our mission is to connect, strengthen and represent these nonprofit partners of America’s public lands.
Duties:
- Coordinate the identification and cultivation of prospects
- Develop a prospect pipeline through research and by “cold calling” corporations, foundations, and individuals who may not have been contacted previously
- Build a portfolio of fundraising prospects and help coordinate visits, calls, and communications with prospects for the PLA Executive Director
- Establish an effective working relationship with the board of directors, and identify and support tactics to engage the board in fundraising activities
- Develop proposals for strategic partnerships and grants
- Write foundation, corporate and government grant proposals and reports
- Monitor proposal deadlines
- Initiate grant requests and inquiries to foundations and corporations
- Manage stewardship process and oversee data integrity for donor database
- Enter and track gifts
- Manage donor database integrity, updating constituent information
- Manage acknowledgement process for corporate, foundation and individual donors
- Lead event sponsorship and annual trade show exhibitor stewardship
- Manage corporate partner giving circle cultivation and renewal (< $1000 annual gift)
- Create and sell sponsorship packages for annual convention and trade show
- Coordinate registration of trade show exhibitors and onsite event management of the trade show in partnership with PLA’s meeting planner
Requirements: PLA seeks candidates with a genuine passion for public lands.
The preferred candidates will have:
• Minimum three (3) years of experience with corporate and / or foundation partnerships
• Knowledge of fundraising principles, methods, and standards
• Successful experience in prospect identification, relationship building, solicitation and stewardship
• Effective time management and organizational skills
• Capacity to organize data and produce reports
To Apply: send a resume, compelling letter of introduction describing your suitability for the position, and salary requirements to careers@publiclandsalliance.org with position title, “Development Manager” in the subject line of your email. Resume reviews begin immediately and resumes will be accepted until the position is filled.