Senior Director, Development

FLSA: Exempt/Overtime Ineligible

Benefits: Eligible

Hours Per Week: 40/Full-time

Met Council is Americas largest Jewish charity dedicated to serving the needy. We fight poverty through comprehensive social services and by treating each client with compassion, integrity, and respect. Our programs are staffed by experts who help over 325,000 clients each year and advocate on behalf of all needy New Yorkers. Our services include 100% affordable housing at 21 locations, family violence services, Holocaust survivor assistance, geriatric social work, crisis intervention and the largest free kosher food distribution program in the world. Our network of 120 food pantries, affordable housing sites, and JCCs provide services directly in neighborhoods across New York City.

Position Summary:

The Senior Director, Development is responsible for the growth of a diversified development program, including the cultivation of major individual donors, new prospects, institutional givers, and raising awareness of Met Council with the general public. As Met Councils role has expanded in serving our clients throughout the pandemic, the Development Department has had to grow to meet the organizations ever increasing needs for funding. While the Senior Director, Development will raise money from all available sources, the role will be critical in analyzing how we expand our donor base in the greater New York region, including Westchester, Nassau, Bergen and Essex Counties.

Please note: This is currently a hybrid position.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Directly solicit and close gifts from $10,000+ donors.

• Plan, develop, and implement an aggressive and creative fundraising program to solicit and acquire funds for the agency including annual, planned, and major gift programs and specialized promotional or capital campaigns.

• Implement a strategy for fundraising beyond the New York City donor base including but not limited to in Westchester, Nassau, Bergen, and Essex Counties.

• Identify, cultivate, build and solidify relationships with new and established contributors.

• Analyze historic patterns of giving and develop strategies to encourage new gifts and identify new sources of revenue, as well as increase current contributions.

• Facilitate efforts to increase funding and all other forms of institutional support from corporations, public, and private foundations.

• Collect and report outcome metrics for the Managing Director, Development and prepare reports for the board of directors.

• Create development and marketing policies to follow industry best practices.

• Additional responsibilities as assigned.

Competencies:

• An excellent communicator who speaks and writes with clarity and purpose to internal and external constituencies.

• An independent, strategic thinker with good judgment, sensitivity and common sense.

• Superior interpersonal skills with the ability to project professional competence.

• A strong commitment to integrity.

• Proven ability to fundraise significant gifts.

• Knowledge of the philanthropic community in New York.

Skill and Education:

• Bachelors Degree (Required).

• 5 years of increasing responsibility in the areas of fundraising.

• Proven track record in the execution of fundraising strategic plans, setting and meeting goals and management of comprehensive fundraising programs.

• Experience working with Jewish communal leadership and an understanding of the regional differences in various donor communities.

• Experience with Salesforce and Microsoft Office Suite.

Compensation: $155,000 to $170,000 per year.

Benefits: Major medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; pre-tax commuter benefits; FSA; 403(b) with employer contribution; plus generous vacation, sick leave, and holidays.