Development Manager

About Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs The Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC) works to create legal, economic, and social equity through litigation, client and public education, and public policy advocacy with a primary focus on racial justice. For the last 55 years, the Committee has been on the cutting edge of civil rights advocacy in the region bringing precedent setting litigation to address discrimination. Our work focuses on injustices in housing, employment, the criminal legal system, education, public accommodations, and the civil rights of immigrants. We partner with individuals and communities facing discrimination and with the legal community to achieve justice. The Committee’s staff is unionized with the National Organization of Legal Service Workers Local #2320, UAW. For more information on the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, please go to www.washlaw.org. About the role Reporting to and working closely with the Director of Development, the Development Manager leads the work related to foundation funding at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee. Primary responsibilities include managing relationships with foundation staff, including planning and implementing cultivation and stewardship activities, donor research, and managing reporting for foundation giving. Accomplishes department objectives by supervising the Development Associate and organizing and monitoring work processes. Reporting to the Director of Development, this position will be the lead strategist and project manager focused on growing the Washington Lawyers’ Committee’s foundations and grants revenue. The Development Manager will manage and coordinate all fundraising efforts related to grants to increase this revenue for the organization. The portfolio of writing currently fluctuates between 10-15 submissions annually to foundations, government, and corporations. Responsibilities The Development Manager will be responsible for accomplishing specific objectives and activities related to institutional fundraising, including but not limited to: Project Management Develop and manage a comprehensive grants program to meet annually determined funding goals. Create measurable goals for the grants program, including number of submissions, awards, and dollars raised. Maintain calendar to ensure timely submission of letters of inquiry, proposals, and reports. Develop and maintain individualized strategies of solicitation, cultivation, and stewardship for each grant funding entity. Contribute to the development of data management, collection, reporting, and program evaluation capacities within the organization. Project manage to keep the Director of Development current on and prepared for all upcoming applications, reports, and information needs. Grant Prospecting and Writing Prospect research to ensure the Washington Lawyers’ Committee has a robust pipeline of local, regional, and national grant opportunities to pursue. Conduct research on funding opportunities with an emphasis on new sources of revenue for both general operating support and priority projects. Evaluate each opportunity to ensure Washington Lawyers’ Committee is deliberate and selective in what it applies for and when. Lead staff teams to develop concepts for new and ongoing funding opportunities. Write highly competitive foundation, government, and corporate grant proposals and concept papers, and produce customized letters of inquiry and reports. Use an “every draft is best draft writing” style so that the Washington Lawyers’ Committee team reviews only dynamic, reader-friendly, and high-quality writing free of typos, jargon, and lackluster prose. Stewardship Build strong relationships with the organization’s portfolio of current and potential institutional funders. Monitor progress of grant-funded projects to ensure successful implementation in accordance with grant contract terms. Track and report on grants that have been won by working closely with the program staff once a grant has been awarded to ensure they understand what must be tracked and liaising with all staff necessary to collect data to complete grant reports on schedule. Development Operations Organize files and documents to make compiling attachments easy and to facilitate reporting by always easily finding original documentation. Manage grants in Raiser’s Edge to ensure all grant opportunities and tasks are current and well detailed. Provide accurate and timely documentation of grants income and work with financial staff to provide reports and information for accounting and planning purposes. Qualifications To be maximally successful in this role, you need to be: A project manager with a knack for working backwards from a deadline to create a work plan Diligently mindful of deadlines Accustomed to working on multiple projects with different deadlines simultaneously An independent worker, self-starter, self-initiator, and self-manager A succinct and directive communicator who responds readily and closes loops A natural information-sharer so that everyone is always looped in A fanatic for follow-up so that you get what you need, when you need it A writer by heart and interest who can tailor tone, voice, and style as needed A collegial editor, who can offer specific, encouraging feedback to bring a piece of writing to its best iteration You need to have: 4-6 years of nonprofit grant writing experience Experience writing all types of grants, especially program-restricted ones Experience writing 6 to 7-figure grants Please include a writing sample representative of your development work within your cover letter (one pdf document). The pay range for this role is: 75,000 - 90,000 USD per year (WLC Office)

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