The Youth Development Professional plans, implements, supervises and evaluates youth activities provided in specific Boys & Girls Clubs program areas, such as Education & Career Development, The Arts, Sports Fitness & Recreation, Health & Life Skills, Character & Leadership, Development or Specialized Initiatives.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston (BGCB), one of the region’s leading youth services organizations, seeks a Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Engagement who is entrepreneurial in their approach to fundraising and who will lead and build BGCB’s private philanthropic support, while maintaining existing revenue sources. The Senior Director will develop, implement and sustain a strong annual fund program from institutional donors in order to significantly grow BGCB’s base of corporate and foundation support. The ideal candidate will have a strong, working knowledge of the current fundraising trends in social services and non-profit sector and a demonstrated history of successful fundraising campaigns.
Now in its 127th year of service, BGCB serves 14,000 young people ages 6 to 18 each year at its 11 Clubs in Boston and Chelsea and through YouthConnect. BGCB relies on private individual, corporate and foundation contributions for 80 percent of its $26 million operating budget. The FY20 fundraising goal is $21 million, with $6 million projected to come through corporate and foundation funders. With approval of its Strategic Plan 2025, BGCB is looking for an experienced fundraising professional to join the Development & Marketing team and contribute to the planning, strategy and goals for increasing contributed institutional revenue.
Reporting to the Executive Vice President of Development & Marketing, the Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Engagement provides the overall vision for an integrated and comprehensive institutional giving program. The Senior Director will directly drive all corporate and foundation engagement activities, carrying a robust portfolio of institutional funders while overseeing the corporate and foundation engagement program. In these efforts, the Senior Director will work collaboratively with the EVP, President and CEO, Board, senior leadership, staff, volunteers, and donors.
The Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Engagement will manage many existing relationships, enrich and implement a proactive funder engagement strategy, and move the entire institutional giving team toward achieving ambitious goals that align with BGCB’s tradition of innovation and impact. The Senior Director will manage four staff members and serve as a member of the Development & Marketing Leadership team, working closely with colleagues to create programmatic integration of corporate and foundation activities within the larger strategic plan of Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston’s Development & Marketing Department.
The successful candidate will be a creative, team-oriented leader with the ability to guide and motivate a strong team, and with deep knowledge of effective corporate and foundation engagement strategies, including significant personal experience developing pipelines and a track record of management and program building.
