Move This World (MTW) is a global nonprofit that uses creative expression as a vehicle to transform conflict, violence and bullying in communities. In partnership with schools, community-based organizations, families and corporations, MTW has worked with over 10,000 individuals across 22 cities on four continents to build and connect more peaceful communities. Our hallmark program is an innovative, evidence-based curriculum that engages students Pre-K-12, educators, administrators, families, and corporate leaders in creative activities that promote empathy, mediation skills, and conflict transformation. In this way, MTW fosters cumulative skill building that grows with the individual and produces measurable impact to promote social change through the art of expression.

We are Ashoka Activating Empathy Award winners, a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum, a Youth Leader with the Inter-American Development Bank and Beyond Sport Award Finalists. We envision a world where creative expression redefines how we build cultures of empathy, teach and learn.    

For more information, please visit www.movethisworld.org.

Joining the Move This World team means:

●   Being a member of a fun, talented team that empowers you while giving you the freedom to be creative and help shape the organization

●   Full time salary & benefits, plus unlimited Subway, cell phone & dance parties

●   The fulfillment of spending time on high-impact work that is defining the future of empathy education

●   Waking up excited every morning that you are building a worldwide movement  

●   Cooking up big ideas (and implementing them!) with a diverse, inspiring team across 4 continents

Move This World (MTW) is seeking a Director of Development to join its team and provide leadership, strategic direction and overall management of the daily operations of the fundraising efforts of MTW.  Reporting to the CEO, the Director of Development is responsible for all activities that identify, secure, nurture and engage the individual, corporate and institutional donors of MTW. The leadership team will look to this executive to develop strategies that continue to build MTW’s financial resources, strengthen the organization’s relationships with a growing pool of philanthropic and business leaders, reflect an understanding of and collaboration with other MTW departments, and manage and inspire the staff to create new opportunities for funding partnerships in support of MTW’s mission.    

Responsibilities:

• Supervise and lead members of the staff by providing strategic direction and motivation to achieve annual fundraising goals

• Act as lead fundraiser in sourcing and interfacing with high net worth elite donors

• Develop and monitor annual Development budgets and operating plans, including but not limited to online, writing and texting campaigns

• Be personally responsible for the management of a strategically selected major donor portfolio as well as cultivate new prospects

• Act as primary contact for key Corporate and Institutional giving and work with staff and the Board to research, identify and qualify new prospects

• Develop, write and submit grant proposals; maintain a grant calendar and submit required reports for existing grantors

• Cultivate and engage all Board of Directors on an ongoing basis, with a strategic approach toward deepening their relationship and philanthropic engagement with MTW

• Cultivate and engage all Young Trustees on an ongoing basis and staff all MTW and Young Trustee events

• Build the Development Committee and then act as staff liason, working with the Committee to plan and prepare meetings, engage Committee members, and advance and follow up on Committee initiatives

• Develop a communications and social media plan and build a Marketing Committee consisting of non-Board members

• Manage newsletter and media distribution channels

• Implement policies, procedures and best practices to ensure efficiency and accuracy of reporting in conjunction with the Director of Operations and accountants

Qualifications:  

• Have a background and proven track record of success in the cultivation and solicitation of major individual, corporate, and institutional donors, and the management of successful development programs, including staff and volunteer management and event planning

• Be a highly creative individual who possesses savvy, self-confidence, flexibility, and energy, and who thrives working in a dynamic environment

• Be a highly personable and friendly individual, who genuinely enjoys frequent participation in social events, and who relishes taking an active, public role in the cultivation and solicitation of donors, and as a representative of Move This World

• Be a strong mentor and team leader, with excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to inspire those working with him/her toward accomplishing common objectives

• Have, at minimum, a Bachelor’s degree, at least 5 to 7 years of relevant nonprofit development experience at a senior level, and preferably significant experience in or familiarity with the New York City philanthropic marketplace     

If you accept the challenge to Move This World:

·  Apply by sending an email to iwantto@movethisworld.org with subject line “POSITION YOU’RE APPLYING FOR- Your Name”, resume, and a letter to us describing why you want to join Team MTW. All attachments must be in PDF format.

·  The deadline to apply is 9:00 am EST January 31, 2014.

A MTW Disclaimer… All of our positions require individuals with an entrepreneurial mind who are able to navigate ambiguity, take matters into their own hands, take risks, learn things they don’t know, and do whatever it takes to get the job done. That might mean working until midnight with the team, reading hundreds of PeaceMover applications, helping coordinate our Global Training Summit, dancing your booty off, crunching numbers in Excel, and going out of your way to share the MTW story with the world. If this sounds like you, share your story with us and submit an application today!