Assistant Director of Institutional Giving

Girls Inc.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Position: Assistant Director of Institutional Giving

Responsible to: Director of Institutional Giving

Location: New York, New York (hybrid/in-person 2 days)

Status: Full-time, Exempt

Background:

Girls Inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold through direct service and advocacy. We work with schools and communities to provide mentoring relationships, safe spaces, and evidence-based programming that are proven to help girls succeed. Girls build the knowledge, skills, and confidence to lead change in their lives and effect change in the world. Girls Inc. also works with and for girls to advance legislation and policies that increase opportunities for all girls. Together with partners and supporters, we are building a new generation of leaders. Join us at www.girlsinc.org.

Summary:

The Institutional Giving team is responsible for securing revenue from institutional

donors including corporate foundations, institutions, and government entities, and

managing these relationships. The team works across departments to create

strategies for effectively deploying restricted revenue.

Responsibilities:

• With the Director and Associate Director of Institutional Giving, set and raised the organization’s annual institutional giving budget from foundation, corporate, and government sources.
• Manage, solicit, cultivate, and steward a portfolio of funders, prospects, and suspects with the capacity to donate six and seven-figure gifts.
• Ensure effective and timely communication of proposal requirements, eligibility, restrictions, proposal and reporting deadlines, and other pertinent information with relevant colleagues across departments.
• Coordinate effectively with other departments and Girls Inc. affiliates to ensure that organizational strategies are funded and implemented effectively.
• Produce compelling top-level funding proposals that link funder priorities with Girls Inc. goals and initiatives. Ensure that proposal materials meet funder criteria and deadlines and are persuasive, accurate, and well-targeted.
• Ensure timely coordination of deliverables and reports for funders.
• Assist with grant budgets and budget justifications. Assist in monitoring grant expenditures in conjunction with the Finance Department.
• Prepare professional letters of inquiry to potential funding sources and collaborating sources, and letters of support/commitment for grant applications.
• Formulate, implement, and recommend short-term and multi-year fundraising plans for foundation, government, and corporate sources.
• Responsible for the development and stewardship of long-term relationships with grantors and potential grantors.

Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years of successful corporate, foundation, and government relations experience
• Entrepreneurial approach, with a proven track record of securing increased and new institutional grants of $250,000 or more
• Demonstrated knowledge of foundation and corporate funding communities, and success in building long-term relationships that lead to larger grants
• Experience with successfully securing and stewarding state and federal government grants
• Demonstrated success in identifying and qualifying new institutional prospects
• Excellent verbal and written skills, with a demonstrated ability to write compelling and strategic letters of inquiry, funding proposals, and stewardship reports
• Ability to work in partnership with a wide range of constituents, including foundation and corporation representatives, government officials, colleagues, and affiliate executives
• Ability to travel periodically (including staffing the CEO, COO, and CDO) with occasional evening and weekend work required
• Bachelor’s degree required

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities

Girls Inc. Benefits:

• 2-day hybrid work schedule out of our Indianapolis office
• Vacation, Sick, & Personal Time + 11 company holidays
• Healthcare, vision, and dental insurance
• Gente Card (HRA benefit) provided by Girls Inc.
• 401(k) available with up to a 5% employer match
• Wellness Stipend
• Fun, friendly office environment
• Professional development opportunities

OUR MISSION

To inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold.

OUR VALUES

The Girls Inc. Strategic Plan, Leveraging the Network and the Brand, reaffirmed the values that underlie our work:

• Respect the dignity of each human being.
• Recognize and support the strength in every girl.
• Appreciate, embrace, and advance diversity.
• Drive for results anchored in accountability.
• Operate collaboratively.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS

Diversity and inclusiveness are defined as acceptance, tolerance, honoring, and valuing differences in culture, lifestyle, heritage, and knowledge. This includes all the similarities and differences that make us diverse internally, externally, or situationally and may include, but not be limited to: age, appearance, communication style, economic status, educational background, employer, gender identification, geographic location, job type/title, language, race/ethnicity, learning style, management status, marital status, mental abilities, nationality, parental status, physical abilities, political affiliation, religion, seniority/tenure, sex/gender, veteran status, work experience, or work location.