Development Manager

Job Type:

Full Time

Location:

Remote, with some travel required.

Salary:

The position includes a base salary commensurate with the candidate's experience.

About Project 8p Foundation:

Project 8p Foundation is a nonprofit biotech organization established in late 2018. We are dedicated to researching 8p disorders to uncover treatment options and provide meaningful answers to affected individuals and their families. As a patient-led, open-science organization, Project 8p prioritizes collaboration, transparency, and resource sharing to fulfill its mission. Currently, there is no cure for 8p disorders, nor is there a standard treatment protocol. Project 8p is committed to translating research into therapies and scaling our learnings to address other complex neurological chromosome diseases.

The Role:

The Development Manager will proactively work to support the mission to empower a unified community for chromosome 8p heroes for a meaningful life today while accelerating treatments for tomorrow. This role requires both internal and external responsibilities, including donor cultivation and community engagement with strong project management abilities. Performance metrics will include prospects numbers, call numbers, solicitation, and stewardship outcomes.

Responsibilities:

Organizational Knowledge:
Familiarize yourself with chromosome 8p disorders, the foundation’s mission, and its strategic operating plan through onboarding materials and independent research.

Development/Fundraising
Planning, Project Management

  • Aid in the design and lead the implementation of fundraising campaigns and events, with metrics and communication plans to engage all donor segments including corporations
  • Schedule donor calls, track donor engagement, contribute to development operations plan
  • Strong organizational and project management skills

Relationship with 8p Families and Related Constituents

  • Create and manage peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives
  • Establish resources for 8p families with practical and creative ways for them to utilize such platforms with their personal and extended networks
  • Lead volunteer committees as part of extended development team
  • Create and maintain strong internal and external relationships; exceptional relationship builder

Donor Cultivation, Stewardship, and Solicitation

  • Cultivate a targeted and assigned portfolio of donors and prospective donors
  • Build robust network of influencers and prospective funders/grantors
  • Conduct regular face-to-face and/or phone and online communication with such donors
  • Help create donor portfolios for the extended development team and assist with implementation including scheduling, tracking and manage actions needed from the
  • extended team, and supply them with all needed materials and instructions to be effective
  • Prepare individual proposals for major donors

Tracking, reporting and database management

  • Maintain the Prospect Management Reports to tracks all actions with prospective and current donors
  • Evaluate and report on fundraising and grant impact and program effectiveness

Professional Qualifications:

  • Ability to work independently while also being a collaborative teammate 
  • Comfortable working with ambiguity and learning new things   
  • Strong work ethic with an understanding of grassroots organizations
  • Takes initiative in bringing new out of the box ideas for finding and cultivating new donors
  • Strong interpersonal skills including interfacing and engaging diverse volunteer and donor groups as well as collaborating with and motivating board members and other volunteers 
  • Strong project management and organizational skills including planning, program development and task facilitation
  • Transparent and high integrity work style; meets deadlines

Education:

Bachelor’s degree

Work Experience:

  • Minimum of 3 years of fundraising experience, including donor research, event management, and cultivation and solicitation of major gifts.
  • Proven track record in project management from conception to implementation.
  • Independent worker with a track record of experience initiating solicitation calls to new foundations, corporations, and/or individual donors.
  • Success cultivating and advancing relationships with existing donors.
  • Experience managing individual donations and securing major gifts.

Application Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Highly motivated to make an impact for a new disease-specific patient-centric foundation
  • Highly collaborative, with a strong ability to project manage and get things done (individually and through others) in an expeditious manner
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and project management software

The successful candidate must, by the start of the employment, have permission to work in the country in which they are applying.

Application Process:

All candidates should submit their resume along with a writing sample to Lauren@project8p.org.

The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:

  • Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.
  • Lead with knowledge from patients. Currently, there is no cure for 8p disorders, nor is there a standard course of treatment.

The Project 8p Foundation (Project 8p) was created in 2018 to:

  • Raise transformative funding for pioneering scientific research into treatments for a complex, rare disease involving 250+ affected genes on the short arm of the 8 th chromosome (8p). Rearrangements of these genes causes significant abnormalities to the entire neurological system, thus all organs and functions of the body– with variance in cognitive functions, gross motor skills, social development and other challenges during infancy, and throughout life;
  • Empower a unified community of 8p patients and their families so they can have meaningful lives today; and
  • Accelerate future treatments, not only for 8p, but potentially for other chromosome-wide diseases as well.