Development Lead
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Title: Development Lead Consultant
Organization Type: Education
Work Location: Hybrid role, mostly work from home; office location and events in the South Bronx
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: through June 2027
Schedule: 20 hours total a week (Monday - Friday)
Pay: $60-75/hour (commensurate with experience)
A New York City nonprofit organization that re-imagines college access by running a civic design studio led entirely by high school students from the Bronx and Brooklyn. Real New York institutions — Mount Sinai, NY Presbyterian, the NYC Department of Health — bring us real problems: How do we get teens to show up for their own healthcare? How do we build trust between young people and the systems meant to serve them? How do we get a neighborhood to act together during a public health crisis? Our students solve them, applying math and English as hands-on tools rather than treating them as school subjects.
Teams of students each manage a $10,000 budget, design and test an intervention, and hand their client a working prototype — real projects with real stakes, not classroom simulations. Students join as General Members freshman year, giving feedback on upperclassmen's projects, and graduate as part of our Legacy Circle — having led multiple projects of their own, been paid for their work, and built a track record that carries them through and beyond college.
Position Summary
The organization is creating its first-ever Development Lead role. This is a foundation-building position: there is no existing individual giving program to maintain, which means the person in this seat will design it.
Today, most funding comes from large philanthropic institutions. The Development Lead will lay the groundwork to diversify that funding by cultivating a deep, lasting network of individual supporters — adults who believe in the program's mission, get to know our students, and choose to invest in our future — while also helping identify and build relationships with new philanthropic organizations that could support our work.
This is "friend-raising" before it is fundraising. The Development Lead will build on strategies already underway — like our monthly Supper Club, where adults share a meal and conversation with students — and develop new ones, including a planned adults-only networking event. Because this work depends on relationships, we'd love for this person to live in the NYC metro area to attend events regularly and get to know the students and community firsthand.
What You'll Do
RELATIONSHIP CULTIVATION AND NETWORK-BUILDING
Apply NowIf interested, please respond ASAP with your most up-to-date resume.
Title: Development Lead Consultant
Organization Type: Education
Work Location: Hybrid role, mostly work from home; office location and events in the South Bronx
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: through June 2027
Schedule: 20 hours total a week (Monday - Friday)
Pay: $60-75/hour (commensurate with experience)
A New York City nonprofit organization that re-imagines college access by running a civic design studio led entirely by high school students from the Bronx and Brooklyn. Real New York institutions — Mount Sinai, NY Presbyterian, the NYC Department of Health — bring us real problems: How do we get teens to show up for their own healthcare? How do we build trust between young people and the systems meant to serve them? How do we get a neighborhood to act together during a public health crisis? Our students solve them, applying math and English as hands-on tools rather than treating them as school subjects.
Teams of students each manage a $10,000 budget, design and test an intervention, and hand their client a working prototype — real projects with real stakes, not classroom simulations. Students join as General Members freshman year, giving feedback on upperclassmen's projects, and graduate as part of our Legacy Circle — having led multiple projects of their own, been paid for their work, and built a track record that carries them through and beyond college.
Position Summary
The organization is creating its first-ever Development Lead role. This is a foundation-building position: there is no existing individual giving program to maintain, which means the person in this seat will design it.
Today, most funding comes from large philanthropic institutions. The Development Lead will lay the groundwork to diversify that funding by cultivating a deep, lasting network of individual supporters — adults who believe in the program's mission, get to know our students, and choose to invest in our future — while also helping identify and build relationships with new philanthropic organizations that could support our work.
This is "friend-raising" before it is fundraising. The Development Lead will build on strategies already underway — like our monthly Supper Club, where adults share a meal and conversation with students — and develop new ones, including a planned adults-only networking event. Because this work depends on relationships, we'd love for this person to live in the NYC metro area to attend events regularly and get to know the students and community firsthand.
What You'll Do
RELATIONSHIP CULTIVATION AND NETWORK-BUILDING
- Build and steward a growing network of individual donors and prospects who care about the organizational mission.
- Cultivate, solicit, and steward individual donors across mid-level and major giving segments to strengthen donor relationships, improve retention, and increase giving levels.
- Act as a relationship-first presence at events, using them as entry points into deeper, ongoing connection rather than one-off asks.
- Develop a system for tracking relationships, touchpoints, and giving history as the individual giving program takes shape.
- Partner with program staff to make the monthly Supper Club a consistent, well-hosted entry point for prospective donors to meet students and experience the program's work directly.
- Identify and cultivate Supper Club guests who could become long-term supporters.
- Lead the development of a new adults-only networking event series, from concept through first execution.
- Define the event's purpose, audience, cadence, and format in service of deepening donor relationships.
- Develop and execute annual giving campaigns to engage individual donors, encourage repeat giving, and grow individual giving revenue.
- Build and manage a major gift pipeline, identifying, cultivating, and soliciting prospective major donors in partnership with the CEO.
- Assess opportunities for future capital appeals and recommend an approach aligned with long-term funding priorities and organizational capacity.
- Design the initial systems, processes, and donor journey needed to sustainably grow individual giving — this year's work is explicitly about building the infrastructure, not just hitting a fundraising number.
- Recommend tools (e.g., a simple CRM or donor tracking system) suited to program's current size and stage.
- Help shape a longer-term individual giving strategy that complements institutional philanthropy relationships.
- Work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and development/operations staff to align individual giving efforts with broader fundraising strategy and program calendar.
- Represent mission and story authentically to prospective supporters.
- Identify and help cultivate relationships with prospective new institutional and philanthropic funders, in partnership with the CEO.
- Experience in fundraising, development, or relationship-based nonprofit work, ideally including individual giving.
- A genuine relationship-builder: someone energized by getting to know people, not just closing asks.
- Comfort building something from the ground up — this role has no existing playbook to follow.
- Strong event and relationship-management instincts; able to turn a dinner conversation or a networking event into a lasting connection.
- Excellent communication skills, written and in-person.
- Alignment with mission coupled with a community-centered approach.
- Availability to attend events, including some evenings (e.g., Supper Club, Friends of).
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