Development Strategist

Essential Job Duties: Development Strategist

English Hudson strategists provide clients with a variety of consulting services including but not limited to:

• Fundraising strategy: Continuously learn, develop, and implement best practices in fundraising strategy; proactively share strategies with clients and act as a thought partner both internally and externally.
• Innovation: Continuously learn best practices in fundraising strategy to stay abreast of changes in the market, industry, and client’s organization – especially shifts and changes that impact fundraising. Contribute to forward thinking for improvement and tailor practices to align with EH’s core values.
• Client management: Manage all aspects of client work according to scope of work, including goals related to fundraising or other client deliverables.
• Content generation: assist with the generation of collateral when required, including grant proposals, reports, and other writing assets.
• Project management: Maintain client pipelines and management of deadlines to optimize workflow.
• Quality control: Provide first review of projects generated by EH writers to ensure quality and compliance with funder guidelines.
• Time management: collaborate with all EH consultants involved in a project to ensure on-time deliverables.
• Systems: Utilize EH systems and databases.
• Collaboration: Work collegially on all assigned projects with the client and the EH team.
• Culture: Contribute to a culture of feedback and collegiality.
• Research: Conduct research and compile/analyze data as needed.
• Additional Responsibilities: this role may encompass other responsibilities as needed to support the evolving needs of English Hudson.

Skills

• Effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Thrives in ambiguity and a resourceful problem solver.
• High emotional intelligence and resilience.
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills at both a macro and micro level.
• Highly organized with superior attention to detail and follow up.
• Outstanding customer service and diplomacy skills when interacting with clients.
• Demonstrates flexibility in responding to client demands and varying requests.
• Ability to function independently and work with minimal supervision.
• Capacity to work with multiple clients and projects at one time.
• Ability to understand new concepts and switch among varying subject matters with ease and speed.
• Maintains a calm and positive attitude while meeting deadlines and tight timeframes.
• Strong working knowledge of office applications and online collaboration tools, such as Google suite, Sharepoint, One Drive, Dropbox, Adobe PDF, DocuSign, Zoom, etc.
• Familiarity with online grant applications required.
• Ability to learn and use company-specific software.