Development Manager

Organization: Path Home

Job Title: Development Manager

Reports to: Development Director

Job Specifics: Full Time, 40 hours per week

Compensation: $75,000 - $85,000 annually

Benefits: Full health and vision insurance (Providence) and dental insurance (Moda). Option to add dependents at employee's pre-tax expense. Path Home will contribute an amount equal to 2% of employee's total annual salary into a Simple IRA. Hybrid schedule with expectations for onsite and remote work each week.

Paid Time Off: Three weeks of Paid Time Off (120 hours) plus one week of Paid Sick Time (40 hours) annually. Path Home also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays throughout the year.

Close date: Open until filled. Next application review date is Monday, June 30, 2025.

Path Home values diversity in its workforce and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from diverse backgrounds to apply for this position, including people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, people with lived experience, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with criminal backgrounds.

Overview: 

This role leads mid-level and annual giving strategies, manages fundraising campaigns and events, and serves as a connector within development to keep our efforts aligned. Strong facilitation and communication skills help ensure cross-functional partners—across programs, operations, communications, and leadership—stay coordinated and moving forward. 

We are a warm, hard-working, mission-driven team grounded in compassion and collective care. Our fundraising balances community-centric and donor-centric values, and our workplace culture centers inclusion, flexibility, and joy.

If you love bringing teams together to creatively solve problems, designing meaningful donor experiences, and translating vision into action, we’d love to meet you.

Specific Job Duties:

Program & Project Management

• Co-create and lead the implementation of annual fundraising plans in partnership with the development team.
• Manage planning and execution of annual giving campaigns, ensuring the team is clear on the vision, priorities, deadlines, and success metrics.
• Cultivate accountability on project teams to ensure deadlines and expectations are met.
• Partner with the Communications Manager to develop content that tells stories ethically and speaks to donors’ motivations. Write solicitation and stewardship copy. 
• Project manage key capital campaign activities. Coordinate internal and external timelines, engage corporate partners, support donor-hosted house parties, and design strategies for the public phase of our campaign.
• Maintain internal systems and shared documentation to ensure fundraising plans are clear and on schedule. 

Donor Service & Stewardship 

• Serve as the primary contact for annual, mid-level, and monthly donors, inspiring generosity through authentic and meaningful connection.
• Design and implement donor engagement strategies that increase retention, including phone calls, thank-you notes, tours, and appreciation events.
• Ensure stewardship is meaningful and consistent for each donor segment. 
• Lead and expand our in-kind gifts program to align donations with our shelter, kitchen, and family needs.
• Regularly enter donor interactions and updates into our CRM (DonorPerfect), ensuring accurate records of engagement.

Event Strategy & Execution

• Project manage key donor events, including Path Home’s Family Reunion Fundraiser, major donor thank you party, and capital campaign gatherings. 
• Manage all logistical elements and relationships related to events, including vendors, sponsors, and donor ambassadors who engage their networks in our fundraising efforts.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and systematize events so that we can engage more donors with less effort. 
• Manage the inter-departmental Adopt-a-Family program for Holiday Village and coordinate other seasonal in-kind drives.

Grants Management

• Lead internal project management for all grants, maintaining a calendar of deadlines, identifying prospect motivations, recommending relationship management strategies, and preparing the team for timely submissions.
• Edit grant proposals drafted by our contract grant writer, aligning them with our mission, tone, and funding priorities.
• Write compelling and timely grant reports that communicate impact and foster funder relationships.

Other duties as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum five  years of experience in fundraising, with proven success managing cross functional projects, complex campaigns, and donor relationships. 
• Strong project and event management skills: ability to set priorities, manage team timelines, and keep multiple efforts on track.
• Able to understand and synthesize donor motivations into segmentation strategies. 
• Excellent writing and editing skills, with the ability to communicate impact in a clear and inspiring way.
• CRM experience required (DonorPerfect a plus).
• Must be willing to embrace and uphold anti-racism and anti-oppression work and trainings. 

Skills and Abilities: 

• Passion for community-centric fundraising and ethical storytelling. 
• Flexible, yet able to hold healthy boundaries. 
• Comfortable analyzing data and making strategic decisions based on insights.
• Confident about collaborating across teams and with external partners.
• Have empathy, humility, and a deep commitment to equity and Path Home’s mission.
• Experience with grant writing and reporting processes is preferred.
• Familiarity with capital campaigns and in-kind fundraising is a plus.