About Greenbelt Alliance:
At Greenbelt Alliance, we educate, advocate, and collaborate to ensure the Bay Area’s lands and communities are resilient to a changing climate. Over Greenbelt Alliance’s 60-year history, we have stewarded this region’s beautiful natural landscapes while promoting the growth needed for thriving communities for generations to come. As a result, today, almost 3.3 million acres of the Bay Area’s nine counties are protected open spaces.
Now, the Bay Area’s people, cities, and lands need critical help as our climate dramatically changes. Learn more about our mission, vision, and organizational values here. Our work is more urgent than ever as we see our most vulnerable communities already suffering from the effects of a changing climate—we need to accelerate our pace of adaptation to build a resilient future. If you share this sense of urgency, and want to have the privilege of waking up every day knowing that you are taking action to make a difference, this could be the role for you!
About the Opportunity:
Greenbelt Alliance seeks a visionary, skilled and passionate Director of Development. The organization recently developed a new mission and vision to ensure the Bay Area’s lands and people are resilient to a changing climate and is looking for a senior-level executive who will direct all aspects of organizational fundraising and provide long-term strategic direction for the organization’s future financial sustainability. The Director of Development will work closely with the Executive Director and Board of Directors along with existing members of the fundraising, communications, program, and finance teams to advance the mission of the organization while working to achieve an annual budget of around $2 million.
The right candidate will prioritize sustainability and long-view thinking, building and refining the fundraising systems needed. The organization’s fundraising portfolio consists of individual, institutional, and corporate funders. Critical to this role will be the ability to evaluate the costs and benefits of focusing on different fundraising strategies, and prioritizing those with highest potential yield. Connections in the Bay Area’s philanthropic community will be helpful in this role. This position reports to the Executive Director and manages the development team (currently two FTE).
If you answer yes to the following, this role might be the perfect fit for you!
Duties and Responsibilities
With a strong development team and a committed Board and Executive Director, you’ll be responsible for leading on organizational fundraising, including:
Qualifications
A successful candidate will have or be willing to cultivate the following qualifications:
Equal Employment Statement:
Greenbelt Alliance is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, disability, gender, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other category. We strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQIA+ persons, people of different levels of physical ability, people with diverse national and class origins, and all qualified persons to apply for this position.
Our mission is to educate, advocate, and collaborate to ensure the Bay Area’s lands and communities are resilient to a changing climate. We envision a Bay Area of healthy, thriving, resilient communities made up of lands and people that are safe during climate disasters and recover quickly from wildfire, floods, and drought, where everyone is living with nature in new and powerful ways for generations to come.