Provide visionary, strategic leadership to ActionAid USA’s fundraising program, and translate that vision into concrete actions to achieve revenue targets and towards organizational growth Lead a vibrant development team to generate and implement revenue plans to maximize fundraising Craft and execute a country strategy, outlining policy, communications, fundraising, and feminist leadership goalsContribute to the Senior Management Team to successfully foster cross-departmental collaborationSupport the effective engagement of the Executive Director and Board of Directors in fundraising effortsCultivate and steward relationships with crucial foundations and HNWI fundersCollaborate across 50+ countries and the ActionAid Global Secretariat (in-person and virtually) to maximize funding to the federation, including negotiating and managing sub-grants to partnersProvide training to all ActionAid federation fundraisers, focusing on cost-recovery best practiceGuide communications staff to articulate the mission of the organization and balance development, policy, and programmatic messaging across digital, social, and media platforms to a variety of audiencesEstablish and build a legacy giving program, including generation of the organization’s first gift acceptance policyExplore and lead the launch of a corporate giving program, aligning the fundraising requirements of the organization with the essential commitment to maintain organizational independence and integrityProduce and employ ActionAid USA’s first 10-year financial sustainability model

-Managed portfolio of foundations in order to raise funds for work across the global ActionAid federation -Established strategies for cultivating new foundation relationships and stewarding current foundations -Built the organization’s first comprehensive revenue projections model and developed accurate revenue projections for foundations funding year over year-Developed and wrote grant proposals, letters of inquiry, concept notes, and budgets

-Managed donor prospect pool for Senior Vice President (SVP) for Development and Alumni Relations, coordinating cultivation and stewardship of the University’s highest-level donors, including Trustees-Created fundraising strategies to prepare SVP for launch of $1 billion fundraising campaign-Teaching Assistant for Fundamentals of Fundraising course: prepared syllabus and course materials, and generally assisted professor in yearly graduate course

-Crafted process for prospecting and tracking moves management for University Trustees and high-level donors on behalf of the Senior Vice President -Planned, coordinated, and implemented Board of Trustees committee meetings

Support Human Rights and Sustainable Food campaigns with the objective of creating positive social change. Assist petition creators in thinking about the most strategic, achievable demands; recruiting thousands of supporters; targeting the petition; getting media attention for campaigns; using social media to promote campaigns; and much more.

Write proposals and reports for individual, foundation, corporate, and government grants focusing on the Senior Services and Shelter divisions of the organization; conduct research on new leads; set up and attend donor meetings. Act as the main Development department contact for elected officials. Use Donor Perfect database to track donor histories.

Provide technical fundraising writing for proposals, briefs, updates, reports, and other writing and research projects.

-Manage the organization's grant writing process - successful in winning corporate, foundation, and individual grants, up to $1 million.-Generate donor updates and final reports on funds spent; work directly with WFP field officers to convert information from the field into concise, gripping, donor-friendly documents. -Manage the organization’s online fundraising presence including third party websites, social networks, and monthly electronic appeals to donors.-Hire, train and supervise interns; manage the department's intern program; oversee the hiring of two interns to full-time Development staff.

-Initiate and manage the organization's presence on third party fundraising websites and social networks.-Design the organization's intern program and manage and train interns and other support staff.-Primary editor for the Development Department.

-Manage donor accounts and process gifts using Blackbaud/Kintera database.-Provide informational and troubleshooting donor support via email and phone.-Prepare all financial reports for the Development Department.