Director, Development (Chicago / Hybrid)

Work. Serve. Thrive.

Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission. We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.

Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.

Learn more about Feeding America here.

This position is based out of Feeding America’s Chicago office. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.

Compensation

Here at Feeding America national organization, equality is central to our mission and is an integral part of our compensation policies and structures. As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges. You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation. We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices. Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions. 

Salary Range: $128,000 - $133,000 Based on Experience

Responsibilities:

• Manages and develops regionally assigned major gift fundraisers, providing clear expectations, ongoing coaching, strategic guidance and candid feedback to drive fundraising performance and professional growth.
• Informs individual coaching, strategy and portfolio development using data and activity metrics with a commitment to accountability and transparency.
• Fosters a culture of collaboration, learning and excellence by modeling best practices in donor engagement and relationship management.
• Develops an active portfolio of 50–60 donors and prospects with a target solicitation level of 7-figures; leads all aspects of donor strategy, identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship for personal portfolio.
• Models an entrepreneurial and innovative spirit with high volumes of fundraising activity.
• Uses data for prospecting strategy and partners closely with Philanthropy Operations to identify new potential major and principal gift donors.
• Presents mission‑based partnership opportunities to individual philanthropists and family foundations, in collaboration with Strategic Gifts colleagues, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), executive leaders and Network food banks.
• Evaluates opportunities and considers diverse philanthropic vehicles, including planned giving, to maximize impact by aligning donor goals with organizational priorities, in accordance with Feeding America policies.
• Collaborates with Directors, the Vice President of Development, and peers across Development to align relationship‑based fundraising strategies and maximize national and local impact.
• Leads with an enterprise mind