Manager, Development Resources (Chicago/Hybrid)
DescriptionWork.
Serve.
Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives.
Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission.
We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation's largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States.
Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
This position is based out of Feeding America's Chicago office location.
At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment.
Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days.
Employees also have access to a 30-day work anywhere program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
The OpportunityThe Manager, Development Resources is dedicated to donor communication, stewardship, and engagement within the Development department.
The Manager, Development Resources enables fundraising relationship managers to engage and cultivate long-term relationships with donors and supporters through the creation and management of compelling, mission-based, customized, and evergreen donor-facing content.
This role is responsible for producing persuasive funding proposals, impactful stewardship reports and shelf-ready content and resources to engage donors, secure funding, and convey the impact of philanthropic contributions.
CompensationHere at FeedingAmerica national organization,equity is central to our mission andis an integral part of our compensation policies and structures.
Historically, systemic racism and sexism in all aspects of our society, including compensation practices, has led to pay inequities that negatively impact people of color, women, and especially women of color.
These practices include basing salary offers on previous compensation and negotiating salary offers.
As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges.
You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation.
The salary range listed below represents the starting to mid-point salaries for positions and comparable roles at this level at our organization and candidates should expect to be offered a salary near the starting point of the range that is listed on the job posting.
We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices.
Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range:
$82,000 to $87,000 Based on Experience
Responsibilities:
Content creation:
Crafts persuasive narratives that effectively communicate the organization's mission, objectives, and funding needs.
Proposals and grants:
Leads a portfolio of key corporate, foundation and individual donors - working in conjunction with relationship managers - to develop solicitations.
Executes the research and writing of proposals and grant opportunities, collaborating with multiple departments including grants, programs, communications, and marketing to ensure strength-based, consistent messaging that aligns with donor interests and reflects Feeding America's messaging, voice and brand standards.
Stewardship reporting:
Develops and produces stewardship reports that convey the impact of donor contributions.
Distills food bank reporting, programmatic updates, statistics, and stories to demonstrate the impact of philanthropic gifts.
Shelf-ready materials:
Creates and ensures the timely updating of resources for broad use by the Development team.
Case for Support:
Supports the updating of the organization's case for support resources including writing, review and editing of materials, ensuring integration of organizational messaging and accuracy of data.
Content strategy:
Helps implement a comprehensive content strategy that aligns with Feeding America's fundraising goals and objectives.
Content resource management:
Works within The Stewardship Center (TSC) content team and with the TSC stewardship and engagement team to create and manage a development content library, ensuring easy access to resources by Development team members.
Builds knowledge and content on key issues related to Feeding America, the Feeding America network, programs, national and local hunger relief and the organization's impact on the issue of hunger, making it available to the TSC team.
Serves as a liaison to teams/departments within the organization to obtain timely information for use by TSC members for content creation, donor engagement and dissemination across Development, when appropriate.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Technical Competencies &
Experience:
O 5
years of experience in writing, editing, creating content, or producing resource materials.
O Familiarity with nonprofit operations, philanthropy, and fundraising principles.
O Experience in content creation in support of fundraisers, with a focus on proposal, grant and stewardship report writing within a nonprofit or philanthropic context considered a plus.
O Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to craft persuasive, well-structured and impactful written materials.
O Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
O Proven project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage timelines and competing demands effectively.
Foundational Requirements:
Mission Focused - Demonstrates a commitment to Feeding America's mission through work and action.
Is committed to people keep people facing hunger at the center of our work and strives to translate this commitment into action on a daily basis.
Willing to advocate for people facing hunger and serve as an ambassador for Feeding America inside and outside of work.
Embraces Equity, Diversity and Inclusion - Demonstrates a personal commitment to valuing different background and life experiences through word and action.
Takes personal actions to build an inclusive culture that ensures everyone can fully contribute based on their unique talents, skills and perspectives and feels welcomed and valued.
Commits to driving equitable solutions to address root cause issues by incorporating an equity framework in their daily work.
Committed to continuous personal EDI development.
Required Leadership Competencies:
Communicates Effectively:
Conveys clear and effective messages using verbal and written communication within individual, small group, and formal presentation settings.
Communicates project/operating priorities and updates to key stakeholder audiences that may include staff, network food bank members, donors, and other groups.
Responds positively to requests to share information while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive content.
Adjusts message and content based on feedback provided.
Collaborates Internally and Externally:
Forms and sustains effective working relationships that accelerate goal achievement by reaching out to and engaging people from other functions or from outside the organization.
Coordinates projects and plans with others within and outside of own area to ensure the work goes smoothly.
Pursues networking opportunities and encourages others to form new relationships that benefit all parties.
Handles conflict directly and adeptly, respecting all points of view, and resolves issues to create a united path forward.
Understands Our 'Business':
Uses knowledge of how Feeding America and the not-for-profit services industry work to navigate the organization and get things done.
Operates with an awareness of interdependencies between own department/team and others in the organization.
Maintains knowledge of, and relationships with, key stakeholders external to the department.
Leverages Functional Expertise:
Uses advanced functional knowledge to shape decisions and plans.
Takes initiative to stay current and apply knowledge of own field, including to improve processes, practices, and policies.
Regularly offers to share functional expertise with others to help them succeed.
Feeding America recognizes and values diversity.
Our goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging andcontribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences.
We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need.
We encourage individuals from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger to apply.
Recommended Skills Communication Confidentiality Coordinating Editing Hardworking And Dedicated Leadership Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
Serve.
Thrive.
Imagine a place where your talent can make a meaningful difference in peoples' lives.
Working at Feeding America is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission.
We are innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, values-driven and focused on results.
Feeding America is the nation's largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States.
Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
This position is based out of Feeding America's Chicago office location.
At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment.
Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days.
Employees also have access to a 30-day work anywhere program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
The OpportunityThe Manager, Development Resources is dedicated to donor communication, stewardship, and engagement within the Development department.
The Manager, Development Resources enables fundraising relationship managers to engage and cultivate long-term relationships with donors and supporters through the creation and management of compelling, mission-based, customized, and evergreen donor-facing content.
This role is responsible for producing persuasive funding proposals, impactful stewardship reports and shelf-ready content and resources to engage donors, secure funding, and convey the impact of philanthropic contributions.
CompensationHere at FeedingAmerica national organization,equity is central to our mission andis an integral part of our compensation policies and structures.
Historically, systemic racism and sexism in all aspects of our society, including compensation practices, has led to pay inequities that negatively impact people of color, women, and especially women of color.
These practices include basing salary offers on previous compensation and negotiating salary offers.
As such, we maintain transparent salary ranges and clearly defined practices for how our team, including new hire salary offers, moves through these ranges.
You can expect us to offer the best salary up front based on these clearly defined pay practices with little room for negotiation.
The salary range listed below represents the starting to mid-point salaries for positions and comparable roles at this level at our organization and candidates should expect to be offered a salary near the starting point of the range that is listed on the job posting.
We make exceptions for highly experienced (multiple years of at-level experience) new hires in accordance with our pay practices.
Once hired, employees have the opportunity to progress through salary ranges via regular merit increases and step promotions.
Salary Range:
$82,000 to $87,000 Based on Experience
Responsibilities:
Content creation:
Crafts persuasive narratives that effectively communicate the organization's mission, objectives, and funding needs.
Proposals and grants:
Leads a portfolio of key corporate, foundation and individual donors - working in conjunction with relationship managers - to develop solicitations.
Executes the research and writing of proposals and grant opportunities, collaborating with multiple departments including grants, programs, communications, and marketing to ensure strength-based, consistent messaging that aligns with donor interests and reflects Feeding America's messaging, voice and brand standards.
Stewardship reporting:
Develops and produces stewardship reports that convey the impact of donor contributions.
Distills food bank reporting, programmatic updates, statistics, and stories to demonstrate the impact of philanthropic gifts.
Shelf-ready materials:
Creates and ensures the timely updating of resources for broad use by the Development team.
Case for Support:
Supports the updating of the organization's case for support resources including writing, review and editing of materials, ensuring integration of organizational messaging and accuracy of data.
Content strategy:
Helps implement a comprehensive content strategy that aligns with Feeding America's fundraising goals and objectives.
Content resource management:
Works within The Stewardship Center (TSC) content team and with the TSC stewardship and engagement team to create and manage a development content library, ensuring easy access to resources by Development team members.
Builds knowledge and content on key issues related to Feeding America, the Feeding America network, programs, national and local hunger relief and the organization's impact on the issue of hunger, making it available to the TSC team.
Serves as a liaison to teams/departments within the organization to obtain timely information for use by TSC members for content creation, donor engagement and dissemination across Development, when appropriate.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Required Technical Competencies &
Experience:
O 5
years of experience in writing, editing, creating content, or producing resource materials.
O Familiarity with nonprofit operations, philanthropy, and fundraising principles.
O Experience in content creation in support of fundraisers, with a focus on proposal, grant and stewardship report writing within a nonprofit or philanthropic context considered a plus.
O Strong writing and editing skills, with the ability to craft persuasive, well-structured and impactful written materials.
O Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
O Proven project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage timelines and competing demands effectively.
Foundational Requirements:
Mission Focused - Demonstrates a commitment to Feeding America's mission through work and action.
Is committed to people keep people facing hunger at the center of our work and strives to translate this commitment into action on a daily basis.
Willing to advocate for people facing hunger and serve as an ambassador for Feeding America inside and outside of work.
Embraces Equity, Diversity and Inclusion - Demonstrates a personal commitment to valuing different background and life experiences through word and action.
Takes personal actions to build an inclusive culture that ensures everyone can fully contribute based on their unique talents, skills and perspectives and feels welcomed and valued.
Commits to driving equitable solutions to address root cause issues by incorporating an equity framework in their daily work.
Committed to continuous personal EDI development.
Required Leadership Competencies:
Communicates Effectively:
Conveys clear and effective messages using verbal and written communication within individual, small group, and formal presentation settings.
Communicates project/operating priorities and updates to key stakeholder audiences that may include staff, network food bank members, donors, and other groups.
Responds positively to requests to share information while maintaining confidentiality of sensitive content.
Adjusts message and content based on feedback provided.
Collaborates Internally and Externally:
Forms and sustains effective working relationships that accelerate goal achievement by reaching out to and engaging people from other functions or from outside the organization.
Coordinates projects and plans with others within and outside of own area to ensure the work goes smoothly.
Pursues networking opportunities and encourages others to form new relationships that benefit all parties.
Handles conflict directly and adeptly, respecting all points of view, and resolves issues to create a united path forward.
Understands Our 'Business':
Uses knowledge of how Feeding America and the not-for-profit services industry work to navigate the organization and get things done.
Operates with an awareness of interdependencies between own department/team and others in the organization.
Maintains knowledge of, and relationships with, key stakeholders external to the department.
Leverages Functional Expertise:
Uses advanced functional knowledge to shape decisions and plans.
Takes initiative to stay current and apply knowledge of own field, including to improve processes, practices, and policies.
Regularly offers to share functional expertise with others to help them succeed.
Feeding America recognizes and values diversity.
Our goal is to attract, develop, retain, and promote a talented diverse workforce where all employees feel a sense of belonging andcontribute to a culture that values differences, ideas, and experiences.
We intentionally seek out diverse perspectives and skills on our teams, knowing that it makes us stronger as an organization and better equipped to serve our neighbors in need.
We encourage individuals from historically under-represented communities and individuals with lived experience of hunger to apply.
Recommended Skills Communication Confidentiality Coordinating Editing Hardworking And Dedicated Leadership Estimated Salary: $20 to $28 per hour based on qualifications.
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