The Director of Advancement role is a full-time, exempt and salaried position within the Platform Division of LegacyWorks Group. Ideally this role will be located in one of LegacyWorks Groups regions, though the role will be remote. The Director of Advancement will report to the Executive Director.

About LegacyWorks Group

LegacyWorks Group (LWG) facilitates ambitious collaborative initiatives to address todays biggest challenges. Through community-driven, place-based initiatives and client-centered consulting services, we advance programs and projects that deliver transformative impact while building community resilience and capacity. Funders, impact investors, community based organizations, and government agencies engage us for strategy consulting and planning, collaborative facilitation, impact finance, data dashboarding, and initiative incubation and support. We see ourselves as a collective of changemakers, and endeavor to make LegacyWorks the best home for this work possible. Together we build and strengthen networks, amplify and accelerate collaboration, and enable highly effective collective effort at the scale of landscapes, sectors and systems. LegacyWorks Group is a growing, 65-person organization with an annual budget of approximately $15 million currently operating in 22 USA and 4 Mexican states.

About the LegacyWorks Platform

The LegacyWorks Platform is the backbone of LegacyWorks, providing the Administration, Finance, Advancement and People & Culture support that allows programmatic teams to focus on advancing mission-driven work. Rooted in our values of trust, care, and collective action, the Platform aligns teams, strengthens shared systems, and safeguards integrity across the organization. The Platform fosters belonging, access, and opportunity, ensuring that our workplace reflects the inclusivity we hope to build in the world. More than infrastructure, it is the foundation that empowers our teams to thrive, innovate, and generate impact in the communities and with the clients we serve. As our programmatic teams show up to facilitate partnerships and enable diverse groups and leaders to collaborate effectively, the Platform team models our collaborative impact model as a cohesive, collaborative team providing all the services and support our programmatic teams and leaders need to thrive.

What Youll Do

The Director of Advancement is responsible for leading LegacyWorks Groups fundraising and communications efforts spanning strategy development, planning, systems improvement, and team capacity and skills development. This role manages a small core team and coordinates and supports the fundraising and communications efforts of a wider community of leaders across the organization. Success in this role requires cultivating and stewarding relationships internally and externally with individual, corporate, foundation, government, and nonprofit donors and partners to strengthen awareness of, commitments to, and funding for LegacyWorks Group and all its initiatives. They will lead and manage advancement efforts and staff across the organization, directly supervising the Platform advancement team (including the Communications Manager and other staff as hired), while weaving initiative leaders and advancement team members into a cohesive, organization-wide advancement team.

We strive to embody our theory of change and impact model in our external work and in how we operate and show up internally. The Director of Advancement role is integral in this and will:

1. Foster and deepenconnectedness,relationships, andtrustbetween LegacyWorks and philanthropic partners
2. Buildcapacityacross LegacyWorks to cultivate and steward philanthropic relationships
3. Conveneengagementacross the LegacyWorks team in fundraising and communications modalities
4. Catalyzecollective actionand investment towardsinvestment in community prioritiesacross the geographies of LegacyWorks
5. Unlock the power ofdataandstorytellingwithin the programmatic teams of LegacyWorks to channel commitment and share impact with philanthropic partners

Your Primary Responsibilities

1. Advancement Strategy and Leadership
   • Lead organization-wide advancement efforts, integrating fundraising and communications into a unified program to advance our mission, support our teams and initiatives, and ensure our financial wellbeing and resilience
   • Collaborate with senior leadership and initiative advancement team members to develop and implement advancement strategies and plans that holistically integrate fundraising and communications
   • Develop the strategies and materials needed to demonstrate the efficacy of our theory of change and impact model raise to enable us to raise funding for operations, strategic initiatives, and organization developmental efforts
   • Design and implement evaluation efforts to enable organization-wide learning and improvement while fueling communications and fundraising efforts
   • Drive continu…