Director of Institutional Giving
Chicago, IL
Full Time
Development
Senior Manager/Supervisor
The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights invites applications for a full time position of Director of Institutional Giving, to be based in Chicago, Illinois or New York, New York. Supervised by the Chief Development Officer the Director of Institutional Giving leads the strategic development and management of the grants team to generate institutional revenue in alignment with the Young Center’s mission and strategic plan. This role involves overseeing relationships with institutional and corporate foundations, managing a comprehensive grants program, tracking grant deadlines, and coordinating with internal teams to meet grant deliverables. The director is responsible for cultivating new funding sources, particularly outside of immigration, and supporting cross-departmental coordination. They also manage grant stewardship, ensuring strong relationships with program officers and participation in site visits and events. Additionally, the director supervises the grants team, supports fundraising efforts, and upholds DEIJ principles while ensuring accurate grants administration and documentation.
Grants Strategy:
Physical demands include regular attendance, keyboarding, sitting for long periods (at least 5 hours a day), driving. Ability to use computer, telephone, and copy machine. Ability to travel by plane, car and other conveyances within U.S. Occasional lifting for event setup/preparation.
COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS
All employees must be fully vaccinated prior to first day of employment except where prohibited by state law.
APPLICATION DETAILS
The Young Center is an "at-will" and equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in and affirmatively factors diversity into its hiring practices. Young Center encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ancestry, marital or parental status, pregnancy, citizenship, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, genetic information, or veterans’ status. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process; no applicant will be penalized for requesting an accommodation. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.
SALARY:
$121,770 to $141,040 is the standard new hire range for this position ($133,947-$155,144 for those residing in the Los Angeles and DC metropolitan areas; $140,036-$162,196 for those residing in the NYC metropolitan area). Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location and experience. The Young Center does not ask for prior pay history from our candidates and our offer-making process is negotiation-free for salaries and benefits. We offer our best possible salary based on relevant experience. The range listed is just one component of the Young Center’s total compensation package for employees. The Young Center provides excellent benefits, including health/dental/vision insurance (employee & dependents) at no cost to the employee, paid vacation, sick time, and a 401(k) plan with employer match.
Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please apply on the Young Center website with a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and three references in one PDF file. Only complete applications will be considered.
To learn more about the Young Center’s work, please visit www.TheYoungCenter.org.
ABOUT THE YOUNG CENTER
The Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights is a national organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights and best interests—safety and well-being—of immigrant children in the United States. The Young Center’s Child Advocate Program (CAP) serves as the federally-appointed bests interests representative for unaccompanied and separated immigrant children in federal custody. Through CAP’s state initiative, we also serve and are appointed by the Superior Courts of New Jersey as independent Child Advocates to children released from federal custody into the New Jersey community. Child Advocates meet with children and learn their stories in order to identify and advocate for their best interests through an interdisciplinary, trauma-informed, and culturally sensitive lens. The Young Center’s Policy Program fights for wholesale reform of the immigration system while pursuing immediate changes in policy and practice that center children’s rights and best interests in all decisions. The Technical Assistance Program, the Young Center’s newest program, offers intersectional expertise and critical resources to advocates and service providers working with immigrant children involved in child welfare and other state court systems.
The Young Center has offices in Houston, San Antonio, and Harlingen, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; Washington, D.C.; Phoenix, Arizona; Los Angeles, California; and Grand Rapids, Michigan. We also serve children through our programs in New Jersey.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESGrants Strategy:
- Lead strategic development of grants team and objectives to generate institutional revenue in support of the Young Center’s strategic plan, mission and vision.
- Support and guide Executive Director, Chief Development Officer, and Grants Team in foundation stewardship and cultivation.
- Collaborate with Chief Development Officer on forward-looking strategy and projections on the Young Center’s grants-related financials to aid in 1-to-5-year strategic planning.
- Oversee the management of all institutional and corporate foundation relationships.
- Manage grants program, including the grant calendar to track deadlines of letters of inquiry, proposals, letters of agreement, and reporting requirements.
- Oversee all active grants (35-45 per year), including submitting proposals, and reports; offering updates; coordinating with all other YC departments on grant deliverables and commitments.
- Develop and institute stewardship plan for reporting and maintaining strong relationships with program officers.
- Lead coordination of and participate in site visits and meetings with program officers.
- Attend conferences, events, and engage in professional development opportunities as needed to grow funding network, stay current on funding trends, and gain new skills, as needed.
- Supervise and train Grants Team.
- Research, solicit and cultivate new foundations and corporate support (for general operations, policy, or technical assistance).
- Includes developing new areas of potential support in fields outside of immigration.
- Cross Coordination with and Support of other Programs:
- Support Technical Assistance Program, Child Advocate Program (including Safe Repatriation Team), Policy Program and Communication Teams through proposals, and program design, including goals, deliverables, monitoring and evaluation.
- Ensure cross-coordination with and between CAP, TAP, Policy and Communication Teams as it relates to restricted grants, funding commitments and deliverables.
- Maintain up-to-date communication with the Finance Team to ensure speedy recognition of funds upon receipt.
- Support with Fundraising events including corporate sponsorships and corporate donations.
- Uphold community-centric fundraising principles and DEIJ principles in work with external partners and internally across the Development Team and organization.
- Collaborate with Communications Team in the creation and publication of Annual Report.
- Create regular updates for a more general audience including major individual donors and foundations without interim reporting requirements.
- Oversee and ensure all administrative duties and details regarding grants are kept up to date and accurate.
- Ensure all grants activity and relationships are up to date and documented in the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) database.
- Supervise Grants team in updating Development Manual.
- Ensure all supporting documentation for grants is up to date.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor’s degree and/or 10 years of related grant writing experience with foundation and corporate grant proposals and applications.
- Experience working in and/or commitment to social justice movements.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, critical thinking skills, ability to develop grant proposals adhering to proposal guidelines.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Ability to manage and meet various deadlines and prioritize tasks.
- Strong organizational skills and forward-thinking ability to support senior and cross-departmental staff with multiple deadlines and competing priorities.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office products; CRM databases and/or EveryAction a plus
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience—lived, volunteer, or professional—with immigration matters
- Familiarity with community-centric fundraising.
- DEIJ lens and mainstreaming in telling stories and crafting narratives.
Physical demands include regular attendance, keyboarding, sitting for long periods (at least 5 hours a day), driving. Ability to use computer, telephone, and copy machine. Ability to travel by plane, car and other conveyances within U.S. Occasional lifting for event setup/preparation.
COVID-19 CONSIDERATIONS
All employees must be fully vaccinated prior to first day of employment except where prohibited by state law.
APPLICATION DETAILS
The Young Center is an "at-will" and equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in and affirmatively factors diversity into its hiring practices. Young Center encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ancestry, marital or parental status, pregnancy, citizenship, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, genetic information, or veterans’ status. Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process; no applicant will be penalized for requesting an accommodation. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.
SALARY:
$121,770 to $141,040 is the standard new hire range for this position ($133,947-$155,144 for those residing in the Los Angeles and DC metropolitan areas; $140,036-$162,196 for those residing in the NYC metropolitan area). Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location and experience. The Young Center does not ask for prior pay history from our candidates and our offer-making process is negotiation-free for salaries and benefits. We offer our best possible salary based on relevant experience. The range listed is just one component of the Young Center’s total compensation package for employees. The Young Center provides excellent benefits, including health/dental/vision insurance (employee & dependents) at no cost to the employee, paid vacation, sick time, and a 401(k) plan with employer match.
Review of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled. Please apply on the Young Center website with a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and three references in one PDF file. Only complete applications will be considered.
To learn more about the Young Center’s work, please visit www.TheYoungCenter.org.
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