Executive Director
Company: Equitable Hiring Group
Location: Portland
Posted on: January 27, 2023
Job Description:
The Oregon Donor Alliance is seeking their first-ever Executive
Director. This position requires an experienced fundraiser and
skilled strategist who is well-versed in anti-racism and
anti-classism theory, policy, and practices. The Executive Director
is responsible for building and leading a healthy, dynamic
organization that can create and sustain meaningful progressive
change.
This full-time position (40 hours/week) is based in Portland,
Oregon. The salary range for this role is budgeted at $110,000 -
$130,000 depending on experience and fundraising capacity, with a
dynamic performance bonus structure.
Are you ready to build power for progressive change? Do you dream
of collaborating to create the ideas that are powerful enough to
improve the lives of all Oregonians? Then come lead this
organization!
RESPONSIBILITIES
Organizational Strategy
- Ensure this organization's programs and strategies contributes
to the development of healthy, progressive infrastructure in
Oregon;
- Craft a multi-year plan for member, board, and advisory council
development with a clear implementation strategy and with racial
equity as a core lens of measuring organizational impact and
success.
Fundraising
- Implement the multi-year fundraising strategy, ensuring that
there is sufficient funding for emergent and existing
organizational need;
- Lead the donor conversations that will retain and increase
support and political engagement of members and allies through
events, communications, and individual
meetings/communications;
- Develop strong relationships with local and national foundation
funders;
- Develop a healthy individual donor pipeline focused on
recruitment, retention, and upgrading donor investment levels.
Organizational Management & Administration
- Leads from a place of vulnerability and authenticity while
creating a fun, challenging, rewarding and supportive work
culture;
- Recruit, motivate, lead, and retain highly skilled staff and
consultants;
- Ensure organization's legal and financial compliance and
strong, transparent fiscal position.
Member Engagement
- Work with the Board, the Advisory Council, and contracted DEI
Consultants to define and implement the best practices for building
an anti-racist, anti-classist donor community and work
culture;
- Develop strategic communications, including donor recruitment
materials and presentations, to inspire donors and partner
organizations;
- Help donors identify and fund short-term and long-term
progressive infrastructure projects in Oregon;
- Recruit and on-board board and advisory council members;
- Establishes a strong communications strategy and brand for the
organization.
External Relations
- Meet with funders, partners, elected leaders, allies, and other
community leaders to ensure political wins;
- Identify and fill gaps in Oregon's political
infrastructure;
- Replicate best practices and successful models from other
states to strengthen Oregon's strategy;
- Represents the organization as the spokesperson and increases
capacity-building of grantees or partners to engage in
communications work.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience
- Minimum of 5 years in senior management roles including staff
supervision, fundraising, finance, board oversight, and/or
operations in a nonprofit organization
- Anti-racist leader, with track record of embedding anti-racism
at the organizational and programmatic levels
- Skilled fundraiser with experience as lead in closing five
figure gifts from individual donors
- High-level understanding of social and political change and
progressive movements backed by direct experience with grassroots
and/or electoral efforts
- Proven ability to work in a dynamic environment and build
strong partnerships
- Exceptional communicator and writer with ability to manage
challenging conversations and ask the hard questions
- Experience and cultural proficiency working with politically
underrepresented communities, including but not limited to, Black,
Indigenous, and People of Color communities, immigrant and refugee
communities, LGBTQ communities, justice-involved communities, and
youth
- Takes initiative and can make tough decisions
- Success supervising and mentoring staff and teams, including
professional and leadership development
- Strategic planner with the ability to write organizational
theories of change and strategic frameworks
- Collaborative leadership style, engaging and confident
interpersonal style
- Commitment to the mission, vision, and values of the
organization
Keywords: Equitable Hiring Group, Portland , Executive Director, Executive , Portland, Oregon
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