Women's World Banking is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to manage and grow a portfolio of major gift prospects and donors in direct partnership with the President & CEO. Recognized as Women's World Banking's most effective fundraising asset, the CEO plays a central role in cultivating philanthropic relationships, opening doors, convening stakeholders, and advancing the organization's fundraising priorities. This role is responsible for helping translate that influence, network, and visibility into meaningful philanthropic opportunities that advance Women's World Banking's mission and fundraising goals.
Reporting to the CEO, the Development Manager will serve as a strategic partner in shaping and executing donor engagement approaches, prospecting strategies, and portfolio priorities that support the CEO's fundraising objectives. This role will contribute recommendations, develop engagement strategies, identify opportunities, and drive the portfolio management and cultivation efforts needed to move prospects and donors from initial engagement through solicitation and long-term partnership. The successful candidate will exercise considerable ownership while working within the broader fundraising priorities established by the CEO and organizational leadership.
This is a portfolio-carrying fundraising role with responsibility for building, managing, and advancing a pipeline of prospective and existing supporters, including individual donors, family offices, philanthropic advisors, foundations, corporate leaders, and other high-potential partners. The role contributes directly to a fundraising agenda supporting the CEO's efforts to secure approximately $10 million annually, with a strong focus on expanding unrestricted philanthropic support. Success will require building a disciplined and proactive pipeline development process that generates a steady flow of donor engagement opportunities and advances high-value relationships.
Success in this role requires a combination of fundraising expertise, strategic thinking, strong relationship-development skills, sound judgment, persistence, research and analytical capabilities, and a sales-minded approach to donor engagement. The ideal candidate is energized by opening doors, connecting the dots across networks, creating momentum, and helping move relationships from prospect to partner. The successful candidate will be comfortable engaging senior executives, high-net-worth individuals, Board members, philanthropic leaders, and other influential stakeholders, while representing Women's World Banking with professionalism, credibility, discretion, and sound judgment in a variety of external settings.
