Job Title: Development Director

FLSA Status: Exempt

Reports to: Executive Director

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Dreaming Out Loud’s mission is to create economic opportunities for the DC metro region’s marginalized community members through building a healthy, equitable food system. Dreaming Out Loud is rebuilding urban, community-based food systems through social enterprise, helping to increase access to healthy food and improve community health, develop low-income entrepreneurs and cooperatives, and train at-risk adult residents for sustainable, family-supporting wages.

JOB SUMMARY

The Development Director is responsible for overseeing the planning and execution of the organization’s development strategy in collaboration with the Executive Director. They will assume oversight of the organization’s existing donor portfolio and work to expand it through the identification, cultivation and management of new donor relationships. They will also be responsible for identifying new, creative development opportunities for the organization.

The ideal candidate will have experience with managing their own donor portfolio; grant writing and reporting; and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders across the organization to develop fundraising solutions. Development experience within the food systems, or related field, preferred.