Job Overview:

At Community Solutions, long-term partnerships fuel our work with and for communities. We aspire to build partnerships to support our work over time to make homelessness rare and brief everywhere. With this goal in mind, we seek someone able to develop and manage relationships based on rigorous, data-driven learning and the testing and refinement of entrepreneurial improvement concepts.

The Manager will develop and manage a pipeline of key relationships with corporate and foundation partners and individual donors. They will be responsible for designing and leading our donor prospect identification, qualification and research strategy. This role will use databases, artificial intelligence and tech tools to surface insights and inform our fundraising.

The role will also own a portfolio of funding partners, both institutional and individual, and be responsible to implement strategies that drive revenue. This will include key activity areas such as cultivation and stewardship, communications, gift processing, solicitation and data input as well as supporting key areas of reporting and compliance to accomplish Community Solutions annual revenue goal.

The position reports to the Director, Strategic Partnerships.

About Community Solutions:

Community Solutions is a national non-profit organization working to achieve a lasting end to homelessness that leaves no one behind. We envision a more equitable future where homelessness is never inevitable or a way of life, for anyone. Since 2015, we have led Built for Zero, a movement of more than 150 cities and counties using data to radically change how they work and the impact they can achieve and proving that it is possible to make homelessness rare and brief. To help communities equitably and sustainably end homelessness, we are also identifying solutions to address gaps in housing, disrupt inflow into homelessness, and produce more racially equitable housing systems.

Community Solutions seeks leaders at every level: extraordinary, mission-oriented people not satisfied with the status quo. We are a team of values-driven innovators motivated by results. We eagerly seek and support diverse applicants. We provide generous benefits and opportunities for inspiring and transformational professional growth. We pride ourselves in developing an inclusive, accountable workplace culture that encourages staff to bring their best selves to work every day.

Defining Success for this Position:

Leveraging strong donor communications, research, events, and other relationship-building strategies, a successful Manager will identify and grow new and existing relationships with funding partners. Working closely with members of the Executive and Strategic Partnerships Team, a successful Manager will meet annual fundraising metrics set to support Community Solutions operating budget.

A Manager will have a sharp eye and interest to track fundraising trends, map overlapping relationships and networks, and use data to improve their work. They will be self-motivated and excited to share new ideas and process improvements, develop ways to measure and analyze their own success, and track standard and novel fundraising metrics. Finally, the Manager will support the processing and acknowledgement of gifts in a timely manner and ensure fundraising revenue data is accurately tracked and readily accessible across the team.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Partnership Prospecting and Management

• Serve as the project manager and lead proactive and reactive prospect research by gathering, analyzing, and synthesizing financial, biographical, philanthropic, and relational information using tools such as wealth screenings, databases, news and financial feeds, and relationship-mapping resources to assess capacity, affinity, engagement potential, compliance, and reputational risk.
• Produce and share clear, accurate prospect research deliverables, including profiles and capacity assessments, with the Executive and Strategic Partnerships Team to support identification, qualification and fundraising decisions.
• Manage relationships with a portfolio of institutional and individual donors, and lead on developing and implementing strategies to cultivate, solicit and steward these donors to ensure long-term philanthropic impact.
• Masterfully write and submit grants and corresponding budgets presenting a cohesive externally facing narrative for our work by gathering information and input from multiple departments and external sources.
• Ensure the accurate tracking of all relevant deadlines, prepare required reports, and ensure timely submission.
• Stay abreast of fundraising trends, metrics and shifts and leverage fundraising expertise to inform cross-department conversations and strategies related to program initiatives, budget priorities, and strategic planning.
• Assist with creating marketing and communication materials and partner closely with the Strategic Communications Manager to support fundraising efforts including crafting messaging and writing copy and supporting our annual fund and individual giving efforts.
• Assist with gift acknowledgment and processing throughout the year and support efforts to improve communication with individual donors.
• Co-lead and co-manage unique opportunities to engage with current and prospective donors across the team’s funding portfolio, including through meetings, donor events, and webinars.

  Applications must be submitted through the official careers portal. Female candidates and candidates from underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

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