Pittsburgh Area Community Schools (PACS)
Location
Pittsburgh, PA | United States
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Job Description
Company Overview
Pittsburgh Area Community Schools (PACS) strives to be the leader of the community school implementation throughout the Pittsburgh Region, ensuring an equitable education experience for ALL students.
Job Purpose
Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director for Strategic Advancement (DSA) is responsible for evaluating, developing, and implementing solutions that support PACS in setting and achieving strategic goals.
Including but not limited to:
- Designing and executing a development plan to raise needed resources
- Raising visibility of organization by working with our marketing and media team to craft and execute an elevated mission-focused communications and marketing plan.
- Serving as development lead for fundraising, donor cultivation, and strategic financial planning is required.
- Working closely with all funding sources to develop and strengthen relationships that will drive resource generation.
- Developing and executing strategies, in coordination with Executive Director and communications & marketing staff, to increase PACS’s footprint by expanding into new school districts.
- Supervisor for development, communications, marketing, and media staff.
Job Responsibilities
Primary Responsibilities Development Advancement - Manage the identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of all individual, corporate, and philanthropic donors and prospects through, but not limited to: appeals, grant proposals, events and in person asks.
- Oversee all grants and proposal writing, ensuring adequate resources aligned with PACS strategic plan .
- Lead creation and oversight of all funding activities for donor cultivation, solicitation, and relations.
- Seek, nurture, and grow corporate gift opportunities through the identification and cultivation of targeted prospects.
- Work with Executive Director, board of directors, and development staff to create and execute annual giving plan.
- Supervise all development record and file keeping.
- Manage all development research activities.
- Oversee the management of databases, records, files, gift processing and the pledge reminders and acknowledgement processes.
- Develop and manage funding and resources metrics and goals.
Marketing and Mission Advancement
Oversee the creation, development, and implementation of:
- Comprehensive marketing, communication, and public relations plan that aligns with resource advancement goals to enhance PACS’s image and, raises its visibility within its marketplace.
- Articulation of PACS’s mission to target audiences to build and maintain both internal and external relationships.
- All PACS’s external publications, including design, production, and distribution direction.
- All PACS internal print and electronic materials such as letterhead, logo, brochures, etc.
- Media opportunities to create awareness for PACS and its mission.
- PACS’s media image and message, including but not limited to its website, social media presence, press releases and public documents. Organizational Advancement Internal
- Work with leadership team to evaluate and implement internal protocols and plans that maximize organizational efficiency.
- Work with Executive Director to create and execute client promotion strategies for tracking, securing, and retaining school clients.
Board of Directors
- Staff liaison to the development and communications committee of the board of directors.
- Develop fundraising, marketing, and communications training for board members and other leadership volunteers, as appropriate.
- Assume responsibility for all development reports to the Board and attend all Board meetings.
- Participates in meetings of the finance committee of the Board of Directors.
- Assist the board with recommending and researching potential new members.
Secondary Duties
- Participate in the organizational culture of trauma informed practices using the Sanctuary model.
- Participate in required trainings as well as leadership team and all staff meetings.
- Provide culturally competent and trauma informed supervision to program staff.
- Participate in 40 hours annually of professional development opportunities relevant to position.
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities - Possess a passion for serving children and youth from diverse populations.
- Integrity, credibility, and a commitment to and passion for CISPAC’s mission.
- A strong commitment to social change through community empowerment.
- Ability to manage people, processes, deadlines, and budgets.
- Ability to get along with peers, subordinates, and management and maintain a positive and constructive attitude while solving problems.
- Ability to protect the mission, goals, and values of PACS.
- Successful experience in qualifying prospects and developing cultivation and solicitation strategies.
- Must have excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated record of self motivation.
- Exceptional project management skills, including designing, implementing, and managing campaigns.
- Proven track record engaging the boards of directors in fundraising efforts.
- Experience in marketing, particularly to schools and school districts is a plus.
- Benchmarking, funds, revenue, and mission raising analysis and expertise.
- Experience developing a budget, tracking, and measuring results.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and fundraising/constituent management software.
- Superior written and verbal communication.
- Must be able to pass a background check and obtain PA Child Clearance.
Experience/ Education Requirements - Bachelor’s Degree required
- 4-6 years successful experience in fundraising
- Working Conditions/ Physical Demands
- FT POSITION
- Travel up to 20% to business meetings both local and national.
- Must be able to lift 30 pounds occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
- Must have a valid PA driver’s license and reliable transportation.
- This position works at the PACS administrative office, onsite at schools and in the community.
To apply: please send your cover letter and resume to
[email protected].
Company Description Pittsburgh Area Community Schools (PACS) strives to be the leader of the community school implementation throughout the Pittsburgh Region, ensuring an equitable education experience for ALL students.
We work side by side with schools in the Pittsburgh area as analysts, developers, facilitators, managers, and trainers to deliver improved student success. We improve student outcomes, increase parent and community engagement, provide active and coordinated resources, and more.
Our Mission: To surround students of the greater Pittsburgh region with
a community of support empowering them to achieve in school and
succeed in life.
Pittsburgh Area Community Schools (PACS) strives to be the leader of the community school implementation throughout the Pittsburgh Region, ensuring an equitable education experience for ALL students. We work side by side with schools in the Pittsburgh area as analysts, developers, facilitators, managers, and trainers to deliver improved student success. We improve student outcomes, increase parent and community engagement, provide active and coordinated resources, and more. Our Mission: To surround students of the greater Pittsburgh region with a community of support empowering them to achieve in school and succeed in life.
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