United States onlyFull-time, Remote, Exempt
About Rewiring America
Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.
Position Summary
We are growing our team and seeking an entrepreneurial Senior Director of Investment to join our Investment team. This position reports to the Head of Investment. In this newly-created position, the Senior Director of Investment will be principally responsible for establishing, refining, and keeping our fundraising strategy and systems running smoothly. As we are in the process of developing and launching a large capital campaign, the Senior Director of Investment will also support the Head of Investment and team in executing that successfully. The Senior Director of Investment Plays a pivotal role in ensuring the organization has a strong and growing base of funding to support our impact work.
What You’ll Do
Fundraising Strategy
- Work alongside the Head of Investment to develop, refine, and execute a multi-faceted fundraising strategy to support the rapid growth of Rewiring America.
- Improve and build upon existing systems for tracking and cultivating donors and prospects.
- Manage focused initiatives and campaigns to secure major and leadership gifts and foundation and corporate grants.
- Track trends and opportunities to ensure that the case for support expresses Rewiring’s unique value proposition and considers donor/funder priorities.
Revenue Generation
- Implement strategies consistent with our ambitious capital campaign fundraising goal.
- Initiate, develop, and manage high-value relationships (principally $100k+) that result in significant income and value to Rewiring America, developing strategic relationships with investors, and making or facilitating specific asks for financial support.
- Maintain a robust portfolio of major and leadership donors, foundation and corporate partners, building lasting relationships and moving these relationships through the identification/qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship cycles.
Funder Cultivation and Pipeline Growth
- Develop, grow, and manage the pipeline of high net worth individuals, foundations, and corporations who will invest in Rewiring’s growth and impact.
- Collaborate with colleagues to design, test, and implement novel revenue generation strategies that can diversify our income streams.
- Design and deliver engagement opportunities such as webinars, receptions, mailings, and events for donors and prospects.
Stewardship
- Ensure consistent and meaningful communications with investors to facilitate strong relationship building and stewardship.
- Ensure that proposals and reports to investors are properly prepared, submitted, and tracked and that the objectives of grants and funding agreements are met and reported according to appropriate deadlines.
- Ensure the integrity and functionality of the donor database, including best practices in tracking donor data with the highest degree of security, meeting all U.S. federal standards and regulations as required.
Team Building & Management
- Serve as the key co-lead with the Head of Investment.
- Actively manage investment staff, including establishing annual objectives, provide regular feedback and appropriate recognition, conduct annual performance reviews, and support ongoing professional development.
- Collaborate with the investment team to create, update, and implement efficient and effective investment-related systems and procedures.
- Improve and update dashboards to track progress and benchmarks against the revenue plan and proactively produce reports and analyses of campaigns to inform strategies and improve results, including donor retention and satisfaction.
Requirements
The ideal candidate for the Senior Director of Investment embodies the following qualities and characteristics, tailored to an advocacy nonprofit:
Core Qualifications:
- Strong commitment to the mission, vision, policies, and goals of Rewiring America.
- Seasoned leader with at least 10 years of experience in fundraising, with a proven track record of securing six- to nine-figure level investments from individuals, family offices, or institutions.
- Experience designing and leading innovative campaigns and successful efforts in donor cultivation, engagement, and stewardship.
- Mastery of relationship-building skills with a wide range of diverse external constituencies, from small-dollar donors to high net worth individuals.
- Outstanding oral and written communications skills that demonstrate an ability to:
- Convey a compelling story about Rewiring’s mission and impact;
- Translate complex data and analysis into persuasive narratives;
- Communicate Rewiring’s strategies with accessible expertise.
- Seeks out and delivers timely and direct feedback that contributes to the ongoing development of oneself, team members, and a positive organizational culture.
- Experienced managing teams and individuals, ensuring timely feedback and performance reviews.
- Highly collaborative work style with the ability to operate as a peer and thought partner to the Head of Investment, staff, and advisors.
- Leads with positivity and a belief in what is possible.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Direct experience working in the energy, environmental, residential finance or building infrastructure sector.
- Experience in a startup or campaign environment, with ability to quickly scale and build national programs.
- Experience representing a program externally to a diverse group of stakeholders, partners, and funders.
Benefits
The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $190,000 USD, commensurate with experience. Comprehensive benefits package that includes 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). Employees are able to enroll in 401k retirement plan and are eligible for a 3% automatic contribution and up to a 3% employer match on 401k contributions. Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. Employees will receive 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 20 hours of volunteer leave annually. Employees will also receive 13 paid holidays throughout the calendar year (15 days during Presidential and Congressional elections). We have an office closure between Christmas and New Year. Employees are eligible for 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave after 90 days of employment. Regular, full-time employees and part-time employees are eligible to take up to sixteen weeks of parental leave, in all cases related to birth, adoption, or foster care starting from the first day of employment. We offer access to professional development resources.
Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Rewiring America values diversity in all its forms and is committed to inclusive and transparent recruitment, hiring and promotion processes. Candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply.
Hiring Statement
Rewiring America is a project of Windward Fund, a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Windward Fund is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. Windward Fund ‘s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.
Application Procedure
To apply or nominate a candidate, please submit an application and resume via the Rewiring America page at Workable.This position is open until filled, and we are moving quickly to fill this position -- apply as soon as possible. Candidate review and phone screens begin immediately and will be conducted throughout the search period.
E-Verify
Windward participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and employees authorized to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.
