Senior Consultant / Executive Director

Job Description

REQUIREMENTS

• Significant experience in nonprofit fundraising, advancement, campaign management, or fundraising consulting.
• Demonstrated experience with major gifts, capital campaigns, campaign planning, donor strategy, or development leadership
• Ability to advise nonprofit executives, development staff, and board members
• Strong writing, presentation, facilitation, and client communication skills
• Ability to manage multiple complex projects at once
• Comfort working remotely and independently
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly for client meetings, board sessions, campaign work, and retreats
• Residence within reasonable distance of a commercial airport
• Access to reliable transportation, a professional remote work setup, strong internet, and a high-quality video meeting environment

Preferred

• CFRE credential or willingness to earn/maintain CFRE certification
• Experience working with healthcare, hospice, human service, education, or community-based nonprofits
• Experience serving as a Development Director, Chief Development Officer, Foundation Executive Director, campaign consultant, or senior advancement leader
• Experience facilitating board meetings, campaign committees, retreats, or donor strategy sessions
• Familiarity with donor databases, prospect pipelines, gift charts, campaign reporting, and fundraising dashboards
• Prior consulting experience or demonstrated ability to manage client relationships independently

RESPONSIBILITIES

Client Strategy and Consulting

• Manage a portfolio of approximately 4–6 full-service nonprofit clients
• Lead client strategy calls, campaign planning meetings, board sessions, and donor pipeline reviews
• Conduct feasibility studies, opportunity assessments, campaign readiness assessments, and major gift strategy engagements
• Help clients identify, prioritize, and move major gift prospects toward meaningful asks
• Develop practical campaign plans, donor engagement strategies, board engagement plans, and fundraising timelines
• Review client fundraising systems, staffing, board structure, donor data, and revenue performance to identify gaps and opportunities
• Prepare clear recommendations and manage clients week-to-week

Campaign and Major Gift Work

• Support clients through capital campaigns, comprehensive campaigns, major gift initiatives, and special fundraising projects, typically ranging $3M-$50M
• Help establish campaign goals, gift charts, prospect lists, cultivation plans, solicitation strategies, and volunteer structures
• Coach CEOs, development staff, board members, and campaign volunteers on donor strategy and next steps
• Ensure client work consistently moves toward measurable fundraising outcomes to report to client leadership

Client Communication and Relationship Management

• Maintain consistent, clear, and timely communication with clients
• Set expectations, manage timelines, and keep projects moving
• Prepare agendas, meeting notes, recommendations, and follow-up materials.
• Build trust with client leadership while still being direct about gaps, risks, and underperformance
• Escalate client concerns internally before they become retention problems

Internal Contribution

• Contribute to our client’s internal systems, templates, training materials, and standard operating procedures
• Support occasional webinars, educational content, speaking preparation, and client-facing resources
• Participate in team strategy discussions and help improve service delivery across the firm
• Share useful insights from client work that can improve our client’s methodology, sales process, or consulting model

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