Position Overview
City Year Chicago is seeking a skilled fundraising professional with an entrepreneurial mindset to be the Managing Director of Development. The ideal candidate is an ambitious and sophisticated forward-thinker, communicator, and equity-driven fundraising professional who thrives in roles that require them to be strategic, creative, and collaborative.
Reporting to the Executive Director, as a member of the site’s Executive Leadership Team, the Managing Director of Development (MDD) will lead a team of 5 development professionals to manage and implement the fundraising strategy for the Chicago office. This person is responsible for developing and implementing the Development strategy for City Year Chicago to raise and sustain at least $3.75M from the private sector in FY25 and grow annually. The MDD will develop and execute strategic, diversified development plans to raise funds through grant writing, individual giving, and institutional partners, such as corporations and foundations. A focus on establishing multi-year contributions, identifying new funding sources and management of ongoing donors will be expected.
The ideal candidate is an initiative-taking problem-solver and strategic thinker who is committed to helping advance educational equity by developing leaders and supporting students in Chicago’s most under-resourced schools.
City Year values and continuously works to build an equitable and inclusive culture where people with diverse lived experiences feel they belong.
The salary range for this role is $135K - $163K annually, commensurate with experience.
Job Description
The Managing Director, Development will focus on establishing multi-year contributions, identifying new funding sources and management of current donors. The Managing Director, Development (MDD) will oversee a team that will be responsible for achieving the site’s fundraising goals including major gift solicitation, grant writing, event planning, as well as the site’s external communications and marketing efforts. The MDD will serve on the site leadership team, helping to drive and support site-wide initiatives and projects.
Responsibilities
In partnership with the Executive Director and the City Year Chicago’s Board and Development team, leverage and enhance the site’s existing Development plan to implement a strategic and diversified fundraising plan that meets the current goal of raising $3.75M from the private sector and anticipates future needs and growth objectives.
Create strategies to identify and secure new individual supporters, fully leverage existing relationships, increase multi-year commitments, and maintain or elevate current commitments.
People Management & Team Leadership:
Directly supervise the Director of Corporate Partnerships, Director of Individual Giving, Director of Foundations and Grants, and the Development Operations Manager. Support ongoing coaching, career growth, and professional development for a diverse staff.
Relationship Cultivation and Fundraising Management:
Serve as a public representative of the organization, including cultivating relationships with community members, including prospective gift givers in order to build awareness of and commitment to City Year Chicago’s work.
Maintain oversight over all fundraising activities including major giving, grants, special events, direct mail appeals, corporate partnership initiatives.
Build and manage a portfolio consisting of donors and prospects with $25,000+ capacity for giving, and a focus on prospects capable of giving $100,000+. Cultivate, solicit, and close annual, major gift and multi-year contributions.
Board Management and Engagement:
Events and Civic Engagement Program Strategy Leadership:
In partnership with site leadership and Development team, drive strategies to leverage large-scale fundraising events, including our annual Ripples of Hope Gala as well as smaller events to thoughtfully engage donor communities.
Marketing and Communications:
Ability to manage and execute compelling communication tools that drive people to support and champion City Year Chicago, including press releases, media advisories, social media communication and marketing events.
In partnership with the Development Operations staff, support development business processes from donor identification through to stewardship, ensuring accurate maintenance of records and donor information in the Salesforce database.
Organizational Leadership:
Work collaboratively with other site departments and City Year’s national and regional staff. Represent, respect, and role-model City Year’s organizational culture and values internally as a member of the site Senior Leadership Team, and externally as a primary representative of the organization.
Actively contribute as leadership team member and support our ongoing Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging work. Partner with all departments through site events, projects, and cross-departmental committees as needed to ensure site-wide goals are met.
Proven track record of raising funds from diverse sources, including major gifts from individuals, foundations, corporations
Ability to problem solve, work independently, meet deadlines, and balance multiple high-profile partner priorities simultaneously.
Flexibility to attend in-person donor meetings, work related events, respond to unpredictable partnership needs, and other duties as assigned, which at times are outside of standard working hours.
Deep understanding of and commitment to City Year’s values, for more information visit:
https://www.cityyear.org/about-us/culture-values
Key Competencies:
In order to succeed in this role, the applicant must have the following competencies:
Executes to Results: is proactive and a problem-solver, produces high quality work, prioritizes appropriately, and accepts accountability; delegates responsibilities and holds others accountable.
Benefits
Full time employees will be eligible for all benefits including vacation and sick days and organization holidays. You may participate in all benefit programs that City Year establishes and makes available to eligible employees, under (and subject to all provisions of) the plan documents that govern those programs. Currently, City Year offers medical, dental and vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment and disability coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA), other benefits including 401(k) plan(s) pursuant to the terms and conditions of company policy and the 401(k) plan document. For more information, click
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Employment at City Year is at-will.
City Year does not sponsor work authorization visas.
COVID-19 Notice
Our number one priority is the health and safety of our employees and AmeriCorps members and their families; our students and school partners; and the community at large from COVID-19. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required for employment and service – all staff members, including remote staff, and AmeriCorps members are required to be fully vaccinated* no later than their start date. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical reasons or sincerely-held religious beliefs, we will consider requests for reasonable accommodation consistent with our policy, and where we are able to provide such accommodations without undue hardship to the organization pursuant to applicable law. Notwithstanding any language herein, City Year will comply with any state, local, or federal orders, statutes, or regulations that may conflict with the COVID-19 vaccination policy.
- Individuals are considered fully vaccinated 14 days after the completion of their primary vaccination series.