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Join our national development team as a Manager of Development, focused on foundation relations, fundraising, and grant writing, primarily working remotely with occasional office visits needed in New York, NY.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include fundraising from national foundations, drafting proposals, leading funder meetings, tracking deadlines, and coordinating communications about grants.

Skills: Candidates should have excellent writing and verbal communication skills, experience in managing foundation giving, and proficiency with Salesforce and Google Apps for Business.

Qualifications: 5-7 years of development experience, especially managing foundation giving of $1M+ annually, and strong research capabilities are preferred.

Location: The role is hybrid with a primary location of New York, NY and may involve working from any city with a Per Scholas campus.

Compensation: $75000 - $85000 / Annually

POSITION TITLE: Manager, Development (Foundation Relations)

LOCATION: New York, NY

REPORTS TO: SVP, Development (Foundation Relations)

Note: This hybrid role is primarily remote, with occasional in-office requirements. The ideal candidate is based in a city with a Per Scholas campus.

OVERVIEW:

You will play a key role on our national development team with responsibilities in foundation relations, fundraising, grant writing, and organizational storytelling for prospects and current funders in our national foundation funding portfolio. 

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Generate revenue by fundraising from national and multi-market foundations through the process of identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding prospective and current funders. 
• Identify and research prospective private and community foundations to assess interest in providing funding support across campuses or for national initiatives and collaborate with relevant staff to initiate contact.
• Support cultivation of foundations providing support of at least $100K annually and more ideally over $1M annually.
• Draft proposals by synthesizing program information from program staff and Salesforce database to articulate narratives, goals, activities, anticipated outcomes, successes, challenges, etc. to foundation funders.
• Prepare for and often lead funder meetings: developing meeting memos, drafting site visit agendas and coordinating among key participants, documenting interactions in Salesforce,and supporting follow-up.
• Continuously track and monitor opportunities, funder deadlines and deliverables, and ensure timely submissions of proposals and reports. 
• Coordinate with communications staff to publicize grants and other partnership activities as relevant to advance philanthropic relationships. 
• Other duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO US:

Professional Requirements

• 5-7 years of relevant development experience, including experience directly managing foundations giving at various levels, including $1M+ annually.
• A track record of success in managing, renewing, and increasing revenue from a portfolio of funders, particularly foundations
• Exceptional writing and editing skills
• Excellent verbal communication skills, both in person and via videocalls 
• Proven research abilities, including gathering and interpreting data; funder prospecting experience desirable
• Experience with Salesforce and Google Apps for Business
• Capacity to attend key external meetings as an organizational representative when needed

Personal Characteristics

• You thrive in a creative, inventive, fast-paced startup environment with people who are passionate about their work and mission. 
• You are data-driven, results-oriented and a forward-looking catalyst for social change.
• You have a collaborative and flexible work style. You’re excited to work cross-functionally with other departments and independently.
• You are an effective communicator with strong oral and written skills.
• You are tech savvy and learn new tools quickly. 
• You are detail oriented, with exceptional organizational and time management skills.
• You are interested in workforce development, technology, diversity, organizational growth, and scaling impact
• You stand behind our mission, believing that individuals from any community should have access to well-paying career positions, and that talent should be recognized and recruited from many diverse sources.

For this role specifically, we are targeting a salary range of $75,000-$85,000 where the difference in salary is typically determined by several factors, including geography in which the selected candidate resides, and alignment with qualifications and experience.