Director

About Elevate

Elevate is a small business providing comprehensive grant writing support to nearly 100 nonprofit organizations working on a wide variety of issues. Our fully-remote staff work on teams and build long-term partnerships with clients to support every stage of the grant cycle: fundraising strategy & goal development, prospect research and cultivation, drafting and submission, and funder stewardship. All staff work remotely, with the option to visit our co-working space in downtown DC or meet with clients and teams in-person provided that these activities align with our COVID-19 policies. All candidates must be legally authorized to work for Elevate , and must work for Elevate , in the United States.

Staff benefit from flexible scheduling, built-in mentorship and support from colleagues on their client teams, a dedicated supervisor responsible for training and professional growth, established career development pathways that outline clear expectations for current and future positions within the company, and the opportunity to work with a portfolio of clients that align with their interests or provide exposure to new social change issues.

For more information about our organizational culture and the clients we serve, visit our websitehere.

Overview of the Position

For this role, Elevate seeks skilled institutional fundraising professionals with the confidence, flexibility, and persistence to coach clients on best-practices in fundraising strategy, grant writing, financials, and program evaluation while overseeing junior staff who produce compelling proposals and manage detailed grants calendars. Directors work independently to oversee 5-6 client teams at a time. They meet regularly with a dedicated Supervisor to report progress toward client goals, request support managing their teams, and to identify potential obstacles to a successful long-term client partnership for Elevate ’s Client Services department.

Strong candidates have at least four years of experience or comparable experience with the key tasks and responsibilities listed below and demonstrated ability to meet the key competencies for the role.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities

- Lead 4-5 client teams while overseeing the work of junior staff;

- Develop and implement comprehensive institutional fundraising strategies in close partnership with clients that establish short- and long-term goals, prospecting priorities, and systems for cultivation and stewardship;

- Lean on impeccable project management skills to ensure prospect research, cultivation, solicitation, and grand calendar management deliverables are completed on time and at a consistently high quality for each client;

- Manage early career development professionals who are eager to learn from you about institutional fundraising;

- Draft select proposals, reports, LOIs, and concept papers to ensure highly strategic writing on the most complex deliverables.

- Contribute positively to Elevate ’s culture, commitment to equity and inclusion, and company values.

Key Competencies

Fundraising & Nonprofit Expertise. You develop and clearly articulate strong institutional fundraising strategies for clients that work in at least two issue areas or funder landscapes. You demonstrate exemplary, strengths-based writing skills and work to understand the root causes of the challenges facing your client organizations' beneficiaries; demonstrate a command of program design sufficient to guide clients in the development of competitive funding proposals, even for programs and interventions that are new to you. You demonstrate a comfort with budgets, basic program evaluation, and other common grant attachments. You efficiently research well-aligned funding opportunities for different organizational needs and support the cultivation of funders with concise cultivation emails and talking points that demonstrate a nuanced understanding of the funding landscape and individual funder's interests. You