Development Manager

We are looking for an energetic, creative colleague aligned with our culture, mission and shared leadership structure to join our efforts to resource our Good Work. If you have a high level of fundraising confidence, while also bringing a human-centered approach to grants management, and if you are someone who loves to connect aligned money to powerful, life-changing programs, this position may be for you!

We are seeking a part-time Development Manager to lead GWI’s efforts to secure foundation funding for our organization’s operations and expanded programming in the coming year and beyond. The focus of this role will be to activate our pipeline of prospective funders, identify new funding opportunities, generate funder interest in receiving proposals, and lead the development of successful grant applications.

Your Role with GWI

Our new Development Manager will focus their time on leading our fundraising efforts with institutional funders (75% of your time) while also supporting the development of our overall sustainability strategy and donor cultivation efforts (25% of your time). The Manager will work closely with our Development Steward and our Learning & Operations Steward (both GWI Worker Trustees).

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement a fundraising strategy for institutional funders.
• Perform ongoing grants research to bolster our existing list of prospects.
• Cultivate relationships and secure invitations to apply to grant opportunities.
• Collaborate with our team to identify funding needs and express our work in terms of fundable projects that have clear expressions of purpose, deliverables, outcomes and budgets.
• Develop and submit LOIs and grant applications in collaboration with GWI workers.
• Manage reporting requirements and funder communications.
• Support the Development Steward with individual donor campaigns (e.g. annual appeal and major gift campaigns).

Schedule: 24-hours per week, flexible schedule, with required availability for weekly meetings (virtual or in-person) and occasional evening or weekend commitments.

Your Experience

We are looking for someone who is energized by fundraising, donor cultivation, development writing, and grants management, with a clear track record of working collaboratively within a team and with external partners. We have identified the following essential and preferred qualifications:

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing with internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to enthusiastically lead and deliver on projects operating on multiple, parallel timelines, with resourcefulness and planning acumen.
• Expertise working with CRMs and donor management software - GWI currently uses Neon to manage our contact list, event registration, and online donation processing.
• A high level of comfort managing communications and workflow through online platforms - GWI uses Slack, Google Workspace, Zoom, and Asana to manage work and collaborate within our team.
• Highly organized and self-motivated.
• A passion for fundraising as a path to making change!

Preferred

• Experience working with nonprofits and funders in the domains of social change, racial justice, systems change, regenerative economy, and/or economic and leadership development.
• Bringing established relationships and knowledge of networks amongst funders to guide the identification and cultivation of funders new to our work.
• Located in the Hudson Valley.
• A great sense of humor!

Compensation and Additional Details

The Development Manager role is a part-time position. The compensation package for this new role will be calculated according to Good Work Institute’s board-approved compensation policy, which accounts for schedule, experience, and worker need. The proposed range of annual compensation for this part-time position is between $48,000 and $54,000. GWI offers part-time workers significant flexibility in scheduling their work, and various forms of paid time off for sick leave and office closures in addition to vacation time equivalent to four weeks of their regularly scheduled hours.

This position can either be in-person or hybrid, with an expectation for a minimum of 4 days per month in-person at our location in Kingston, NY. The position will also require availability for occasional evening and weekend work.

Timeline: Applications are rolling, with the hope to bring on our new colleague in mid-January 2025.

The Good Work Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We wholly comply with the equal treatment of all employees and applicants for employment without unlawful discrimination as to an individual’s perceived or actual race, creed, color, national origin, citizenship status, gender, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, partnership status, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or veteran status in all employment decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, training and apprenticeship, promotion, upgrading, demotion, downgrading, transfer, layoff and termination and all other terms and conditions of employment.

How We Work

The Good Work Institute (GWI) is a Worker Self-Directed Nonprofit, which is a democratic, shared leadership model that allows significant autonomy and flexibility. Our General Circle, the organizational unit tasked with overseeing our work, is currently made up of 4 Worker Trustees, with a combined 25 years of experience working with the GWI. Our internal structure and operations are as much a part of our mission as our program work, and as such we value and cultivate a culture of care and community.

Our working style as an organization is playful and collaborative, and all Workers operate with a high degree of autonomy and independence. We believe that our new colleague will share these values and approach, while also bringing an openness to learning and adapting to the GWI way of work!

About GWI

The Good Work Institute exists to build and amplify the collective power of people to reject systems of oppression and extraction and create regenerative, just, and life-affirming communities.

Our work is guided by these five principles of Just Transition:

• Relocalizing economic power
• Driving racial justice and social equity
• Democratizing communities, wealth and work
• Advancing ecological repair
• Retaining and restoring cultural diversity

Our work is grounded in collaboration, care, and connection. We hold reverence for the Earth as our shared home and we align with the definition of economy as “managing our shared home.” We believe in the transformative potential of being deeply connected to our places, so we focus regionally, in and around the Mahicantuck Valley, also known as the Hudson Valley of NY.

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Our focus:

Can we imagine an economy centered on caring about our needs and the needs of our shared home, the earth? The root meaning of “economy” is “management of home”: how we organize our relationships in a place to take care of the place and each other.

The Good Work Institute focuses on democratizing communities, wealth and work by fostering:

• Participation: practicing deep democracy to have voice and influence in decisions affecting our lives and communities
• Resilience: developing collaborative communication skills to navigate inevitable tension and conflict in our working relationships
• Belonging: acknowledging unequal societal power relations and taking action aligned with racial justice and social equity