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Dougy Center is committed to providing support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their family members who are grieving before and after a death can share their experiences. On Team Dougy, you can be a part of ensuring that every child has an opportunity for hope and healing. We are a small non-profit with big hearts.
Dougy Center is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. With our mission and with the well-being of all families who are grieving in mind, our goal is to be a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the communities we serve.
Current Openings
DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT
Status: Full-time, Exempt
Scheduled Work Hours/Location: Hybrid with weekly in office hours mandatory. Occasional evenings and weekends expected.
Reports to: Chief Advancement Officer
Overview:
Dougy Center seeks a strong leader with excellent team-building and organizational skills to guide our dedicated development team to the next level of fundraising success. This is a new position for Dougy Center.
Reporting to the Chief Advancement Officer, the successful candidate will be responsible for planning, organizing, directing, and significantly expanding all of Dougy Center’s annual fundraising initiatives.
The Director of Development will oversee a team of fundraising professionals, including an Advancement Services Manager and Events Manager. The Director will also work collaboratively with the Chief Advancement Officer and professional Campaign Counsel to assure the goals for the organization’s capital campaign are successfully achieved.
Working in collaboration with the Chief Advancement Officer, the successful candidate will create and implement a strategic fundraising plan for all annual fundraising, including direct appeals, Leadership Annual Fund Giving, and events. The director will assure that all fundraising systems and operations are functioning at optimal levels to support both Annual Fundraising and the Dougy Center’s Westside Expansion Campaign.
Additionally, the director will work to deepen community engagement and outreach, as well as working closely with the Marketing Department on the development and implementation of comprehensive marketing and communications plans to promote and enhance Dougy Center’s brand in support of fundraising.
The ideal candidate will be a talented fundraising professional with a solid track record of building deep donor relationships, using a hands-on approach to cultivate and steward donors so they are inspired to give generously and consistently. The candidate must be able to carry a portfolio of donors of their own and facilitate corporate and foundation relationships.
Excellent communication, decision making, and leadership skills are essential, particularly the ability and personality to motivate staff, board, and volunteers. Must have a working knowledge of nonprofit management principles and practices, as well as experience developing and managing a budget. Proficiency with computer software related to the position, in particular experience with Microsoft Office products and donor management databases is also necessary.
The successful candidate will be a strategic thinker, able to see the big picture, while simultaneously assuring operational effectiveness to create success.
A bachelor’s degree in a related field and a minimum of five years experience in fundraising with a track record of success, or equivalent, is required.
Fundraising Goals and Strategy:
Provide leadership to ensure that annual fundraising goals are achieved.
The successful candidate will:
- Develop an annual fundraising plan and strategy, and adjust the plan as needed to assure Dougy Center raises the funds it needs to successfully fulfill its mission. This includes strategies for general appeals, events, major gifts, grants, and planned giving.
- Work in collaboration with the Chief Advancement Officer to assure all strategies and donor interactions work in support of and in alignment with the capital campaign.
- Enhance Dougy Center’s image by being active and visible in the community and by working closely with other professional, civic, and private organizations.
Direct Fundraising:
The Director of Development will work closely with the Chief Advancement Officer and the professional staff to build a donor pipeline and identify appropriate strategies to cultivate, solicit, and steward donors. The Director of Development will be directly responsible for a portfolio of 30-50 donors, with a focus on gifts of $1,000 to $50,000, and will help assure gift strategies are aligned and coordinated with events, the campaign, and general organization activities.
The successful candidate will:
- Work with the Chief Advancement Officer and others to assure a pipeline of major gift prospects is identified, updated as needed, and that appropriate cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies are implemented
- Educate donors about Dougy Center and its mission
- Engage donors in the mission and vision for Dougy Center and cultivate them for eventual solicitation
- Assure that solicitation of donors is done respectfully at the right time and for the right purposes
- Steward donors and their gifts to Dougy Center as appropriate and in accordance with the fundraising strategy
The Director of Development will independently visit with potential donors, as well as coordinate visits by board members, staff, and volunteers as appropriate.
The Director of Development will draft proposals, solicit individuals, and, working with staff, will assist with the planning and execution of small cultivation gatherings.
The successful candidate’s performance will be measured in part by the number of substantive visits made and dollars raised.
Development Team Management and Operations:
The Director of Development will serve as the coach and guide for the Development team, assuring members are working together in a cohesive, effective manner. The director will ensure the success and accountability of the Development team through effective coaching and communication of clear and consistent goals.
The director will assure operational effectiveness by the creation and implementation of appropriate processes and procedures, as well as overseeing the management of all fundraising systems, including the donor database.
Working with the Advancement Services Manager, the director will assure that all donor and constituent information, including donation records and demographic information, is appropriately tracked and managed in the organization’s donor database. The director will also assure that all financial information is appropriately reconciled with Dougy Center’s Finance Department.
The director will assure that all essential development policies and procedures are created, updated as needed, and are followed, including donor acknowledgement and stewardship, grant reporting, and gift acceptance policies.
From time to time the Director of Development may take on other duties as defined by the Chief Advancement Officer.
Supervisor Responsibility:
- Advancement Services Manager
- Events and Corporate Relations
- Development Associate
Professional Qualifications:
- A bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
- Five or more years successful senior nonprofit experience, including direct supervision of fundraising staff, or its equivalent
- Demonstrated ability to develop, oversee and successfully implement comprehensive fundraising strategies
- Demonstrated ability to create and manage complex budgets, including budget analysis, and ability to report financial findings to a board
- Strong organizational abilities including planning, delegating, program development and task facilitation
- Demonstrated ability to convey a vision of Dougy Center’s strategic future to staff, board, volunteers and donors
Professional Skills and Attributes:
- Ability to collaborate with and motivate staff, board members and other volunteers
- Transparent and high integrity leadership
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to interface with and engage diverse volunteer and donor groups
- Strong public speaking ability
- Ability to work a highly flexible schedule with frequent evening and weekend work.
Salary range $89,000- $94,000 commensurate with experience and other qualifications. Please send resume, cover letter (please indicate required salary), and three personal references to Catherine Crooker, catherine@crookerconsulting.com, by April 1, 2024.
For questions, please contact Catherine Crooker, catherine@crookerconsulting.com.
MAJOR GIFTS OFFICER
Status: Full-time, Exempt
Scheduled Work Hours/Location: Hybrid with weekly in office hours mandatory. Occasional evenings and weekends expected.
Reports to: Chief Advancement Officer
Overview:
Dougy Center is seeking an experienced Major Gifts Officer with demonstrated success in acquiring, cultivating, and soliciting donors to join our organization during a time of growth and innovation. For more than 40 years, Dougy Center has led the nation in providing grief support for children, teens, and young adults. This new team member will join organizational leadership in developing and executing a campaign to significantly expand our ability to serve grieving children, as well as supporting the organization by raising funds for general operations.
The Campaign:
Dougy Center is currently in the pre-planning phase of a campaign to expand our reach of services to the Westside of the Portland Metro Area. The campaign will address three key priorities: 1) The purchase and renovation of a building in Washington County; 2) A Resilience Fund to ensure Dougy Center’s success as we grow to doubling the number of children and families we serve; and 3) A Renovation Fund to cover some needed updates to the Dougy Center East campus.
This is a new position for the campaign, and for Dougy Center. Working with the Chief Advancement Officer and key staff, the Major Gift Officer will successfully cultivate prospects leading towards leadership level gifts to the campaign, as well as cultivating and soliciting Dougy Center donors for other major projects. This position will come to Dougy Center with their own skills, ready to share their knowledge, and gain additional skills through collaboration with their colleagues.
Reporting to the Chief Advancement Officer, the Major Gifts Officer will be tasked with developing and executing strategies to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors and prospects with a focus on gifts of $10,000+. The Major Gift Officer will make meaningful connections with donors whose interests and passions align with the continued success of Dougy Center’s mission, presenting them giving opportunities, encouraging them to invest in the growth and sustainability of the organization, and will steward their gifts to ensure retention and increased involvement. The successful candidate will identify prospective new donors, educate them about Dougy Center and the campaign for expansion, cultivate them for solicitation with respect to right timing and right purposes, and steward these donors and their gifts to Dougy Center. The candidate's performance will be measured by the number of substantive visits made and gifts raised.
Essential Functions:
- Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift prospects
- Manage a portfolio of approximately 120 donors and prospects through a cycle of personal engagement and relationship development to secure major gift support
- Create a cultivation and solicitation strategy for each donor in the portfolio and directly solicit major gifts in support of Dougy Center and the Westside Campaign, as well as for general operations and planned gifts as appropriate
- Work alongside Executive Director, Chief Advancement Officer, the Board of Directors, and campaign volunteers to develop giving opportunities in the context of the current campaign
- Develop and assist with stewardship events and meetings involving the Executive Director, Chief Advancement Officer, other Dougy Center staff, and volunteers
- Work with Program and Marketing staff to create appropriate project information, including budgets and proposals, that will be used for targeted solicitations
- Other duties as assigned by the Chief Advancement Officer
Qualifications:
- A heart for Dougy Center’s mission and a significant level of comfort with conversations about death, dying, and grief
- Natural relationship-builder who can identify and make authentic connections between people’s philanthropic goals and the mission and needs of Dougy Center
- Confident and comfortable presenter in both one-on-one and group settings
- Effective storytelling skills and a good sense of humor
- Successful experience developing cultivation and solicitation strategies
- Energetic team player who is driven by managing and cultivating relationships that result in passionate, transformative gifts
- Experience interacting with business and community leaders to engage and represent the organization well
- Experience and willingness to track work in a donor database and managing multiple projects with competing deadlines
- Ability to create, collaborate, and maintain strong working relationships with external and internal partners (including staff and volunteers) from diverse communities with respect and attention to belonging, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion
- Willingness to help promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the organization
- Ability to appropriately manage confidential and sensitive material
- Ability to work a flexible work schedule, with some evening and weekend work required
Experience:
- Three to five years of successful fundraising experience in a nonprofit environment, with a minimum of two years direct experience as major gift portfolio manager. Capital campaign experience preferred but not required.
- Experience creating individual donor plans for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship
- Demonstrated ability to cultivate and solicit high net worth individuals, with a proven track record in closing five- and six-figure gifts
- Demonstrated successful experience with supporting and motivating volunteer solicitors
- Proficiency with the tools designed to support major gifts work, such as CRM donor databases
Salary range: $78,000 - $82,000 per year, commensurate with experience and other qualifications. Please send resume, cover letter (please indicate required salary), and three personal references to Catherine Crooker, catherine@crookerconsulting.com, by April 1, 2024.
For questions, please contact Catherine Crooker, catherine@crookerconsulting.com.
GRIEF SERVICES COORDINATOR
As a full-time Grief Services Coordinator and part of the Program Team, you will be responsible for planning and running support groups for children, teens, young adults, adult caregivers, and volunteers. Additionally, you’ll collaborate with other program staff on planning and implementing innovative programming ideas, volunteer facilitator trainings, and collaborative projects with outside organizations. As a member of the Program Team, you will also provide direct phone support to individuals seeking support and resources before and after a death.
You will not have on-call responsibilities, and there is minimal clinical documentation (no progress notes!). Since you won’t be overseeing or engaging with individual work, there isn’t a high case load.
We will particularly appreciate your experience working with the specific populations the Dougy Center is looking to increase our support for: Black/African American and Latino/Latinx communities. We also will appreciate your approachability, passion for our work, and sense of humor.
Experience
Required:
- Master’s Degree in a human services field (Counseling, Social Work, etc.)
- Minimum of three years of professional experience working with children, teens, and/or adults
- Understanding of the grief process
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Demonstrated commitment to the agency’s mission; commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and values
- Ability to work in person mostly at SE Portland location (3909 SE 52nd Ave), and flexibility to work at Dougy Center locations in Beaverton and Canby as needed, with some work-from home
- Includes evening and/or weekend hours within a set schedule
Preferred:
- Experience working with children and adults in groups
- Bilingual in English and Spanish
Salary, Benefits, and Employee Status Information:
- $50,000 - $55,000, depending on experience
- Full-time, exempt employee status
- Hybrid office/work-from-home schedule
- Employer-paid medical, vision, and dental coverage
- Employer-matched retirement fund
- Life and disability insurance
- Dog friendly office
How to Apply:
Please send a cover letter and chronological resume to our search consultant, Kathy Kniep, at kathy@kathykniep.com, by April 15, 2024.
An email acknowledgment will be sent to all applicants within two business days. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within that timeframe, please contact Kathy Kniep, kathy@kathykniep.com or 503-309-3433.
All inquiries will be handled confidentially.
The position will remain open until filled.
Not sure if you should apply? Please call Kathy Kniep with questions at 503-309-4433.
Dougy Center: The National Grief Center for Children & Families is committed to providing grief support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their families can share their experiences before and after a death. We provide support and training locally, nationally, and internationally to individuals and organizations seeking to assist children who are grieving. With this mission and with the well-being of all families who are grieving in our community in mind, we will demonstrate Dougy Center’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and specifically, fair and inclusive access to meaningful and relevant resources and services for all people who are grieving in our community. We are committed to engaging in intentional dialogue to foster a community based on our organizational values of respect, integrity, stewardship, and excellence.
Become a Dougy Center Volunteer Facilitator
One in 15 kids in the Portland area will experience the death of a parent or sibling before they turn 18. Dougy Center's in-person and virtual peer grief support groups are growing to fill an increased need, and Dougy Center volunteer facilitators play a crucial role in ensuring continued access to our bereavement program.
Become a Dougy Center Volunteer Facilitator. Work directly with kids, teens, young adults, and their adult family members at one of Dougy Center’s three metro area locations. Complete the free volunteer facilitator training, then work with the grief support group that fits your interests and schedule. Volunteers commit to giving 3.5 hours every other week for a year.
Award-winning Workplace
Dougy Center has been recognized for several years as a 100 Best Nonprofit to Work For in Oregon by Oregon Business magazine. Oregon Business named us as a 100 Best Green Workspaces in Oregon. And we are one of Portland Business Journal's Most Admired Non-Profits.
With our mission in mind, we are committed to engaging in intentional dialogue to foster a community based on our organizational values of respect, integrity, stewardship, and excellence. We believe that every staff member brings a unique perspective and skills to our team and are actively searching for new people to bring new perspectives and ideas to the work we do.