Vice President of Development - The National Council for Research on Women, New York, NY

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For 25 years, the National Council for Research on Women has helped shape the future for women and girls: it is a network of more than 100 leading U.S. research, advocacy, and policy centers with a growing global reach and more than 2,000 top-level researchers. The Council harnesses the resources of its network to ensure fully informed debate, policies, and practices to build a more inclusive and equitable world for women and girls.

The key to the Council's past success and future growth has been highly-focused, accessible, timely research delivered through rapid-response communications campaigns, an informative website, and an active and informed network. As it grows, the Council now looks to hire three senior level staff members, two of which will fill new positions, to continue its groundbreaking work.

The Council's first Vice President of Development will create and implement short and long term action plans for major gifts, planned giving prospects, and corporate and foundation giving, including research, identification, solicitation, cultivation and proposal development with a goal to greatly expand and diversify the Council's $1.5M budget. The Vice President will share responsibility for providing vision and strategic direction for the Council's programs, and for ensuring the organization's fiscal health through fund-raising.

The ideal candidate will be an experienced, strategic thinker who is young at heart but has the gravitas to steward major donors, the knowledge of when to leverage the President's time and energy and the strength to create and close substantial partnership deals with donors in order to substantially expand our revenue streams and achieve a new level of fiscal success. S/he must be an intelligent, driven self-starter with a demonstrated track record of at least seven years engaging board members, high-level individuals, corporations, and foundations; creating and implementing fund-raising plans; managing special events; overseeing development staff and consultants; expanding strategic partnerships; and tracking development in relation to income projections and departmental budgets.

Applications are due by December 6, 2006 but will be reviewed as received. Interviews will be offered and hiring decisions may be made before the application deadline. Applications should be sent to ncrw-dev@nonprofitprofessionals.com and will be reviewed only if they include a cover letter describing your interest and qualifications, your resume (in Word format), a short writing sample, three references, and salary history. In order to expedite the internal sorting and reviewing process, please write your name (i.e., Smith, Jane) as the only contents in the subject line of your e-mail.