Senior Advancement Manager, Individual Giving
California
Advancement /
Full-time /
Remote
Pacific Environment
For more than three decades, Pacific Environment has worked to serve people, wildlife, and ecosystems by promoting grassroots activism, strengthening communities, leading strategic campaigns, and working for policy changes. We are headquartered in San Francisco, with regional offices or staff across the United States, China, Vietnam, the Philippines, Republic of Korea, Singapore, and Thailand, and with partnerships that span the Pacific Rim.
Pacific Environment and our partners fight fossil fuels and champion clean energy, challenge industrial models that disregard local interests, and bring grassroots concerns—and whenever possible grassroots leaders—to national and international bodies to advocate for policy solutions that reflect community needs and values.
Pacific Environment operates as a campaigner, coalition-builder, grantmaker, and thought partner. We provide direct funding and technical assistance to grassroots environmental activists in the regions where they work. We complement these community-led efforts with national and international coalition-building and advocacy to decision-makers to support policy changes that prioritize local interests and resolve the root causes of environmental challenges. Pacific Environment has a strong track record of local and international achievement.
Pacific Environment seeks to protect communities and wildlife of the Pacific Rim. We support community leaders to fight climate change, protect the oceans, build just societies, and move away from fossil fuels and plastic pollution toward a green economy. Learn more at www.pacificenvironment.org.
Position
We seek an experienced and highly motivated Senior Advancement Manager. This is an exciting opportunity for a professional to join a growing team and organization. This position is best suited for someone who has already had responsibility managing successful long-term fundraising efforts, with an emphasis on individual giving.
As Senior Advancement Manager, you will help develop and manage an individual fundraising strategy to help raise our $10M+ and growing budget. This includes cultivation and outreach to major gift donor prospects and family foundations and online fundraising. In parallel, this position will ensure comprehensive stewardship and recognition, data management, tracking and analytics for individual giving. And you will work with colleagues to support the strategy development of an evolving organization.
The right candidate will have great management skills, a creative spark, attention to detail, excellent writing skills, and familiarity with environmental, climate change and social justice issues.
The Senior Advancement Manager will report to Pacific Environment’s Senior Advancement Director.
Location and Travel
Pacific Environment staff currently work from home. Greater San Francisco Bay Area and other California local candidates preferred followed by other U.S. West Coast locations, plus Anchorage, Alaska. However, we will consider highly qualified candidates residing elsewhere in the U.S. This position requires working West Coast Time Zone hours, and potentially some evenings or weekends. Some travel to the Bay Area may be required if the successful candidate is based outside the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The position may also involve some other travel.
Responsibilities
- Help develop and manage annual and long-term development strategies for individual giving, with a focus on acquisition, retention, and upgrading of individual donors.
- Manage multi-channel, direct response fundraising, including direct mail, online fundraising campaigns, and selected events.
- Write appeals, updates, impact reports, case statements, tailored asks and other donor communications.
- Help develop major donor cultivation strategy and work with program and organizational leadership staff to execute an annual cultivation plan.
- Develop and manage an annual online fundraising plan in collaboration with the Communications Department, including at least four appeals annually and a year-end fundraising campaign.
- Design and manage a robust stewardship and recognition program for individual donors, including recurring giving.
- Maintain donor database, including data management, tracking and analytics for individual giving.
- Manage or assist with other projects and tasks as assigned, including supporting efforts to expand corporate giving.
Key Qualifications
- A minimum of 5 years of experience fundraising, cultivating, and stewarding individual donors.
- A proven record of individually leading successful fundraising with individual donors, including online fundraising and donor cultivation.
- Experience developing and managing a successful annual fundraising strategy to meet budget goals of at least $1M annually.
- Experience identifying prospects and initiating new relationships.
- Proficient strategic thinker and problem-solver.
- Ability to consider challenges as opportunities and be unafraid to try new approaches.
- Experience as a creative and compelling storyteller who can combine research and data with strong narratives to communicate organizational impact and objectives.
- Excellent organizational and planning skills and demonstrated success meeting deadlines over long time horizons.
- Hands-on experience with CRMs and other development operations technology (EveryAction helpful)
- Passion for working with diverse teams and a demonstrated commitment to promoting environmental protection and building an equitable and sustainable society.
Some great candidates may not check all the boxes above and may have valuable skills not included here. If that’s you, please don’t hesitate to apply and tell us why you would thrive in this role.
$95,000 - $105,000 a year
Compensation and Benefits
Pacific Environment provides compensation commensurate with experience and equitable with others on our team, plus a full benefits package for staff positions. The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $105,000, which is carefully considered to account for equity, and the final offer will be based on the candidate’s qualifications. The employee will enjoy a flexible working environment with a dedicated, diverse group of colleagues.
Physical Requirements
The Senior Advancement Manager’s work involves remaining in a stationary position and looking at a computer for long stretches of time, communicating with co-workers electronically, and occasional travel (including overnight travel), in-person meetings, or events. The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this job application, pre-employment testing, or a job interview, or to otherwise participate in this hiring process, please contact: hr@pacificenvironment.org
Pacific Environment has an organization-wide policy that staff must be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Pacific Environment is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from communities harmed by environmental degradation and from backgrounds underrepresented in the environmental movement to apply. We welcome diversity to do our best work and believe that creating teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to the change we seek.
Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the terms of the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Pacific Environment. Please inform our HR team by emailing recruiting@pacificenvironment.org if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in the application or interview process.
Pacific Environment participates in the E-Verify Program: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees
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