Overview
Senior Development Writer, Institutional Giving Jobs in New York, New York, USA at Association of Fundraising Professionals
Location: New York
Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit environmental law organization. We take on the biggest, most precedent-setting cases across the country. We wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health; to preserve magnificent places and wildlife; to advance clean energy; and to combat climate change. We partner with thousands of groups, supporters, individuals, and communities to engage the critical environmental issues of our time and bring about positive change.
We are here because the earth needs a good lawyer. Founded in 1971, Earthjustice has a distinguished track record of achieving significant, lasting environmental protections. We achieve this by hiring people who share a passion for justice and a healthy environment. Our headquarters are in San Francisco with offices in Anchorage, Juneau, Los Angeles, Tallahassee, Miami, Honolulu, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, Denver, Seattle, Bozeman, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
The Senior Development Writer will serve on a team of fundraising communications professionals who support Earthjustice’s Development department. The person in this position works closely with organizational and programleadership, attorneys, fundraisers, and communications staff to provide writing support for organizational fundraising by writing and editing donor materials that play a critical role in cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship to improve the donor journey s position will provide donor collateral to ensure the Foundation Relations team meets annual goals of raising approximately one-quarter of Earthjustice’s contributed revenue annually and may support the Principal Gifts team as needed.
Building relationshipswith a subset of Earthjustice’s program teams, the Senior Writer will serve as a donor communications expert on a segment of Earthjustice’s work (similar to journalistic beats) and serve in an advisory role to inform other team members’ projects. In addition to writing projects covering specific programs, the Senior Writer will develop collateral related to Earthjustice’s entire programmatic portfolio and initiatives that exist at the intersection of several program teams.
The Senior Writer provides editing, peer coaching and guidance to Donor Communications team members as they craft fundraising assets and will act as a mentor to more junior development writing staff as opportunities arise. This role can be based in San Francisco, CA or remote from the U.S.
Responsibilities
Writing, Editing, Research, andProject Management(70%)
Be a strategic partner to foundation and gift officers and program staff to develop and submit the highest quality letters of inquiry, grant proposals, reports, and other supplementary materials to institutional donors.
Independently manage a portfolio of writing, including a high volume of writing and editing assignments on a variety of topics and with tight deadlines.
Develop messages/assets, as needed and in coordination with officers, used to keep donors informed and engaged between formal reports, proposals, and meetings.
Provide writing, editing, and proofreading support to Developmentleadershipand to members of other Devo teams, including production of multi-media assets.
Facilitatestrategic planning, creative briefs andproject managementfor donor communications assignments, as well as effective feedback conversations for continual improvement and improved partnerships.
Maintain curre…
Title: Senior Development Writer, Institutional Giving
Company: Association of Fundraising Professionals
Location: New York, New York, USA
Category: Non-Profit & Social Impact, Creative Arts/Media
