Strategic Partnerships Director

(Employment or consulting arrangements flexible based on qualifications of candidate)

The Strategic Partnerships Director takes responsibility for Bay Localize meeting its fundraising goals through strategic relationship building. This includes developing and implementing fundraising plans, cultivating new foundation contacts and managing grant proposals, building a diverse individual donor base, and growing earned income streams.

Core Job Functions:
Fundraising development and implementation.
-Design and coordinate implementation of development plans to meet organizational fundraising goals.
-Identify and develop new foundation prospects, and coordinate grant proposal process.
-Identify and develop major donor prospects, in order to grow major donor gifts.
-Design and coordinate implementation of fundraising plans for major events.
-Design and implement strategies to grow income from organizational membership.
-Design and coordinate implementation of strategies for earned income.
Additional Job Functions:
-Contributing strategic direction and oversight to Bay Localize programs.
-Support the Bay Localize Steering Committee in development and implementation of strategic plans, programs, and organizational oversight.
Skills and Qualifications:
-At least five years of successful leadership in nonprofit fundraising, preferably in the environmental or environmental justice field in the San Francisco Bay Area.
-Strong relationships with regional environmental or environmental justice funders.
-Strong knowledge of issues relating to community resilience, environmental protection, and social justice.
-Excellent oral and written communication skills.
-Experience and comfort working with team consensus process.
-Experience working with diverse communities.

Competitive salary offered commensurate with experience. This is a full-time, exempt position based out of Bay Localize's downtown Oakland office just steps from BART. Employment, health, and dental benefits offered through Bay Localize's fiscal sponsor, the Earth Island Institute. Bay Localize is a family-friendly organization and can offer flexible hours and arrangements to accommodate caretaking responsibilities. Women, LGBTQI, and people of color strongly encouraged to apply. Please send your resume and cover letter to info@baylocalize.org.