Director, Donor Communications

Director, Donor Communications

Full-time, Remote, Exempt

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Position Summary

We are growing our team and seeking an entrepreneurial Donor Communications Director to join the Investment team. This position reports to the Senior Director of Investment.

In this newly-created position, the Donor Communications Director is principally responsible for developing and executing on effective communications strategies for fundraising, cultivation and stewardship of Rewiring America’s institutional and individual donors and prospects. The Donor Communications Director is critical to strengthening our relationship with existing and potential funders, and unlocking the funds needed to power Rewiring America’s work in the years ahead.

What You’ll Do

Create a Donor Comms Strategy

Serve as Driver/Owner of: 

• Rewiring America’s Case for Investment 
• An Investment Team Editorial Calendar that motivates current and prospective funders to deepen their support
• Fundraising toolkits, universal proposal elements, talking points, FAQs, and shared Donor Communications resources

Produce Materials for Donors

Create compelling donor-facing materials, including: 

• Rewiring America’s annual report
• Narratives, visuals, and financial materials for proposals and reports to individual and institutional funders
• Calendar- and Lifecycle-based stewardship, fundraising, acknowledgement, and cultivation messaging using the most appropriate media and channels 
• Event communications such as invitations, programs, speaker talking points, and follow up messaging 

Collaborate and Manage Donor Comms 

• Project Manage a portfolio of projects requiring input and contributions from a variety of stakeholders throughout the organization.  
• Maintain a working knowledge of the interests and expectations of the organization’s major funders and proactively seek program information to cultivate major donors based on their interests. 
• Partner with staff from across the institution to manage the collection of program input and other information about the organization, our strategies, and partners. 
• Proactively identify compelling content and transform complex material into highly readable stories.
• In collaboration with donor relations colleagues, develop an internal repository of information that reflects institutional priorities and fundraising goals for the use of the team and donor relationship managers. 
• Collaborate with the Creative and Communications teams to ensure alignment around the organization’s comms strategies with respect to donor audiences.
• Collaborate with relationship managers and program and Finance staff to prepare financial documents including proposal budgets, grant expense reports, and budget and expense report narratives. 
• Apply Rewiring America’s style guides, basic graphic design principles, and personal creativity to advance the visual presentation of donor communications, seeking opportunities to use photography, infographics, data visualizations, and other imagery as appropriate. 
• Ensure proper documentation and record-keeping around deliverables for internal future reference. 

Who You Are

The incoming Donor Communications Director will be driven by a commitment to Rewiring America’s values, vision, and mission. Through their track record as a talented communication professional with excellent leadership, writing and project management skills, the successful candidate embraces the idea that we can do big things, and demonstrates humility, curiosity, and a learner’s mindset. They recognize that the stakes of what we are trying to accomplish depend on a passionate, high-functioning, and reliable team. 

The Donor Communications Director joins a lightweight, nimble team that operates with a sense of urgency and a track record of success. The Donor Communications Director must have:

• Excellent writing, editing, verbal, and visual fundraising communication skills, including the ability to express a range of voices and styles for varied projects with diverse audiences.