POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT:

Peer Health Exchange
National Director of Development

Locations:  San Francisco, CA

Description:
Peer Health Exchange (PHE) is a national non-profit organization whose mission is to give teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education. Since our founding in 2003, we have trained more than 4,000 college student volunteers to deliver effective health education to 40,000 public high school students in New York City, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco Bay Area, and LA. In the 2010-2011 year, PHE is serving 15,000 teens and writing its next major strategic plan with the help of New Profit, Inc. and the Monitor Group, two significant investors. The plan will build off of PHE's successes to date and chart the course to increase impact dramatically in the years ahead.

The primary responsibilities of the PHE National Director of Development are to ensure that PHE meets its short and long-term fundraising goals, oversee development strategy and systems, and coordinate all outreach and development efforts across PHE sites-at National, in existing City Sites, and for new City Sites. The National Director of Development will report to the National Director of External Affairs. The National Director of Development will manage the National Outreach and Development Manager and work closely with City Executive Directors. In addition, the National Director of Development will work closely with the CEO, Director of Finance and Administration, National Board of Directors, and local Boards.

This is a full-time position with a competitive salary and benefits package.

Responsibilities:
The National Director of Development will ensure that PHE meets its short and long-term fundraising goals, oversee development strategy and systems, and coordinate all outreach and development efforts across PHE sites.

Specifically, he/she will:

• Ensure PHE meets its short and long-term fundraising goals by:
  • Initiating, managing, and stewarding relationships with individual, foundation and corporate supporters
  • Working with City Executive Directors to ensure local sites raise their budgets
  • Overseeing quality of development activities including proposals, grant reports, major donor cultivation and communications, and fundraising events
  • Leveraging the CEO & National Director of External Affairs in service of funding opportunities
  • Serving as the senior staff liaison to the Development Committee on the National Board of Directors
• Oversee development strategy and systems by:
  • Managing long-term development goals and strategy
  • Reviewing all development systems and procedures, making improvements where necessary, and overseeing all department operations. This includes all development functions, events, publications, and the Salesforce database.
  • Maintaining knowledge of trends and best practices in the field
• Coordinate all outreach and development efforts across PHE sites
• Work closely with the Outreach and Development Manager and the Director of Finance and Administration to ensure alignment of income goals and expense needs
• Support the National Director of External Affairs by:
  • Assisting in media outreach strategy and execution

Qualifications
Peer Health Exchange is looking for someone who:

• Is committed to the Peer Health Exchange mission
• Has 5-7 years experience in development
• Has a demonstrated record of achieving fundraising goals through major gifts, foundations, corporations, or the public sector
• Has an understanding of development systems and ability to leverage them
• Has a Bachelors degree or further degree
• Has exceptional verbal communication and interpersonal skills to engage diverse constituencies including PHE staff, board members, and supporters
• Has excellent writing and editing skills
• Has excellent organizational skills and is extremely detail-oriented
• Is comfortable in a fast-paced, high-energy, entrepreneurial environment
• Is willing to travel as necessary

Contact
Please submit a resume, a cover letter, and a writing sample (your best nonfiction writing, 3 pages or less) to the following email address: directorofdevelopment@peerhealthexchange.org. Only candidates who submit all three materials will be considered for the position. For more information about Peer Health Exchange, please visit www.peerhealthexchange.org.