Development Director

Development Director

Columbus, OH

Full-Time

Exempt

Executive

Central Ohio Area

YFC Core

Position Summary

GOAL: To advance the mission and vision of Central Ohio Youth for Christ by mobilizing resources for our mission. This is accomplished by implementing a comprehensive development strategy for the identification, cultivation and solicitation of financial champions of our mission.

Key Objectives

Leadership, Management and Accountability for all Development staff and tasks

Responsible to raise annual campaign income per budget

Responsible to manage donor relationships and PEO process

Responsible to manage branding, marketing and communications efforts

Responsible to manage donor databases and internal data

Responsible to oversee key departments of events, grants, and planned giving

Responsible to participate in leadership responsibilities related to the Shared Services Director's Team

Specific Duties

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

Development Team LMA

Ensure all Development Department Annual Work-plan and KPI goals are achieved with excellence

Ensure each role has a current job description, training plan, written policies and procedures and annual KPI's, and is in compliance with organizational template

Ensure upcoming fiscal year performance goals are set and recorded in the Annual Review and Refocus Document for each role, for each team member

Ensure annual review and refocus meetings are done for each departmental staff person

Ensure all staff are supervised at least twice monthly

Develop and manage task teams to mobilize volunteers for specific events or tasks as needed Keep departmental expenses under annual budgeted amount

Maintain an annually updated Development Plan that is revised and submitted to the ExD by March 30 of each year.

Raise Donated Income

Participate in setting annual budget goals for the chapter

Hit annual goals in planned giving for future revenue

Manage each funding stream of donated income to achieve or exceed budgeted goals Keep departmental expenses under annual budgeted amount to produce targeted net funds

Donor Relationships

Develop and implement a comprehensive plan for acquiring new donor prospects through communications, events, grant requests, personal visits, online activities etc. Cultivate prospects and encourage engagement with the mission of COYFC Create awareness of ministry needs including but not limited to financial needs

Invite prospects to become donors, volunteers or to participate in other ways best fitting their gifts, capacities and interests

Cultivate increasingly positive donor relationships with the mission and staff of YFC Build a vision for donors to become champions of the YFC mission as well as the broader Kingdom mission

Branding and Marketing

Develop maintain and execute a marketing plan for COYFC

Oversee and maintain branding standards for COYFC

Manage external communications of COYFC including media

Develop and maintain print materials to support external communications

Develop and execute on a plan for social media, web and electronic communications

Manager Donor Data

Maintain a high quality database tracking donor activity and donor giving

Ensure compliance with organizational policies and best practices for donor receipts and data transfer to the accounting systems from the donor systems

Manage web based donor platforms and giving portals

Meet at least once each year to review with the IT manager the security of IT infrastructure with relationship to donor data and to ensure IT support is adequate for the team needs

Manager Key Departments

Grants

Planned Gifts

Events

External Communications

Donor Relations

Shared Services Directors Team

Prepare for and participate in Management Team meetings as required

Help construct departmental budget and performance objectives annually

Submit strategic initiatives to the budget process as needed to grow Development results Support overall vision and mission of COYFC and intentionally develop an anti-silo ethos in Development Department

Spiritual Responsibilities

Because COYFC and its subsidiaries are a part of the same faith-based organization and share a faith mission and set of values, we require all employees to consistently apply and live according to the religious mission and theological beliefs. Each staff member, regardless of role, is asked to:

Articulate and uphold COYFC religious beliefs and practices at work and outside of work. Each employee serves to represent the religious message and mission of COYFC (as outlined in the Statement of Faith and Mission) to the broader community.

Be ready and willing to lead and contribute to distinctly Christian activities such as devotional worship or prayer services.

Ensure communications represent Christ in an honoring way

Seek God's guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole as well as for specific donors and ministry initiatives

Be capable of engaging the Biblical foundations of our beliefs on topics relevant to donors in a winsome way, including those who do not share our faith.

EEO Statement

Youth For Christ (YFC) provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, national origin, age, handicap, marital status, or other unlawful discriminatory characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. YFC is classified as an Association of Churches and as such our hiring practices reflect that designation. As a religious nonprofit organization, YFC incorporates within each leader role, the requirement to model, teach, share and live the faith. The relationship between YFC's mission and each of its leaders is its lifeblood and as such does at all times and in all instances reserve the right to make employment decisions based upon a person's religious beliefs, personal character and lifestyle consistent with our understanding of the Bible or with our overall goals and requirements for Christian ministry. We seek to create a workplace that is intentional about Kingdom Inspired Diversity. Our commitment to our employees extends to their opportunities for growth, development, promotion, training and compensation. We will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with known disabilities, unless doing so would result in an undue hardship to the organization.