Our Mission

illuminAid equips and trains organizations in developing nations to produce and share low-cost video content in order to help educate and safeguard local communities facing our world's most pressing challenges.

Our Vision

illuminAid envisions a world where electricity, illiteracy, location, language and lack of materials are no longer barriers to positive social change. Through locally created video instruction, small improvements in knowledge dissemination can fuel this progress for individuals and communities.

Our Values

• Each person deserves the opportunity to improve their life through education.

• Each person should be able to learn within a community–regardless of language, literacy, or location.

• Each person should receive highly-relevant instruction from the best teachers in the community.

• Each person should benefit from efficient and effective instruction through video technologies.

Do you believe the world’s most vulnerable are being left behind as the developed world moves rapidly forward with technological advances? Do you believe that we can use video to change the world and to create a better world for successive generations? Do you enjoy teaching people to tell their own stories using the easy, affordable, spellbinding power of video?

If you do, we’d love to talk to you!

ROLE DESCRIPTION

illuminAid is seeking an experienced Development Director to work alongside the executive team and implement the organization’s comprehensive plan to achieve revenue goals. This position is a key member of illuminAid’s executive team and integral to helping illuminAid fulfill its mission. We are seeking a unique, qualified individual passionate about international development to fulfill the fundraising needs of our nonprofit organization and who will participate in our mission to change the world with video technology.

Reporting to and working with the Founder/Executive Director, you will be an integral part of developing and implementing our fundraising strategies to scale our work worldwide, and will:

• Work closely with the Founder/Executive Director to strategize and execute multi-level development initiatives aligned with long- and short-term revenue goals.

• Cultivate relationships and solicit an assigned portfolio of funding partners, including scheduling meetings, preparing agendas, and tracking outcomes and next steps.

• Manage the outreach and negotiation functions, including accurately recording activity in our Customer Relationship Management Software (Salesforce)

• Participate in strategy meetings to overcome objections and close deals.

• Collaborate on the research, submission, and tracking of detailed funding proposals and reports; Draft and copy edit Concept Notes, proposed budgets, and reports.

• Manage your own account list of high-value clients, which will include research, identifying, ranking, and assisting with the cultivation of new prospects.

• Carefully track all development activity in Salesforce CRM, running weekly reports to monitor engagement and e-mail response trends.

• Maintain own current calendar of appointments, meetings and deadlines.

Qualifications:

• Enthusiasm for international development and illuminAid's mission to empower developing communities through access to knowledge. Experience working in or traveling to least developed countries (LDCs) desired.

• Minimum of 3 years nonprofit development experience with demonstrated success in managing capital campaigns, foundation or grant solicitations, and major/minor gifts.

• Confident and flexible contributor with stellar organizational skills who is experienced in managing multiple concurrent projects/activities involving multiple stakeholders.

• An aptitude for interpersonal rapport building and working collaboratively with others. Exceptional communication skills (both written and verbal).

• Ability to self-manage and follow through to ably and reliably meet multiple, concurrent deadlines.

• Exceptional organizational, time management and planning skills.

• Fluency in Google Workspace required.

• Demonstrated proficiency in Salesforce CRM required.

• Occasional travel to major cities in the USA, possible travel internationally.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $65,000.00 - $75,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Paid time off

Experience level:

• 4-5 years, minimum 3 years in related experience.

Schedule:

Monday to Friday, must be able to accommodate frequent early morning or evening meetings with international partners.