Senior Director, Major Gifts – City Year

Posted by City Year Philadelphia on April 2, 2024

City Year Philadelphia welcomes applications for the position of Senior Director, Major Gifts (“Senior Major Gifts Director”) and seeks a results- and team-oriented leader to assume this critical role. The Senior Major Gifts Director will lead efforts to secure financial support from Philadelphia-area individuals and family foundations and manage the Individual Giving team. The Senior Major Gifts Director partners with the Site Leadership team and the rest of the 7-person Development department to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward individuals and family foundations. The Senior Major Gifts Director will create and implement a community-centric development plan to build sustainable and engaged individual giving partnerships, including our signature Red Jacket Society major gifts program. Specific focus will be on growing our individual donor base to raise increased resources and ultimately, serve more students in Philadelphia. As part of their responsibilities, this role manages and is supported in their efforts by an Individual Giving Manager. Workstreams managed by this role will also have the support of a regional grant writer, who also supports other City Year sites. The Senior Major Gifts Director will collaborate closely with the Managing Director, Development to ensure the site meets its annual budget of $10 million, including $2.85 million from private sources.

This position will be hybrid: partially in-person and partially virtual.

Learn more and apply here.