TSI Job Opening: Director Of Development
20-Jul-09
The Seasteading Institute is hiring. See below for details.
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TSI Job Opening: Director Of Development
The Seasteading Institute (TSI), headquarted in Palo Alto, CA, is a non-profit organization with the mission of furthering the establishment of permanent, autonomous ocean communities. In opening a new frontier, we will improve the human condition worldwide by enabling innovation with new political and social systems. We were recently covered in Wired and The Sunday Times, and in 2008 we received $500,000 of initial funding from Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early investor in companies such as LinkedIn and Facebook. More information is available at our website, seasteading.org.
TSI’s development director will be primarily responsible for growing membership and obtaining funding for TSI through a combination of grant-writing, outreach, PR, fundraisers, and donor development. They will work in conjunction with the Executive Director, Director of Operations, and the Board of Directors. This is a paid, full-time role (3/4 time is available if needed for work/life balance). We offer a quality PPO health insurance plan in addition to other standard California state benefits.
Requirements:
* Work experience in a non-profit.
* Willingness to commute to our downtown Palo Alto office 3 days/week.
* Social, outgoing, networking type of personality
* Largely self-managing – work with other staff to define priorities and brainstorm strategy, but able to work independently.
* Passionate about our mission, understands that we are a non-profit and part of their compensation is in the “coolness factor” and getting to work on an ambitious project to benefit humanity.
The ideal candidate will also have:
* Experience and a track record of success in a non-profit fundraising role (doesn’t need to be a senior one).
* Event management experience.
* A network of contacts and potential donors in a similar enough area to be relevant to TSI.
Specific responsibilities include:
* Board recruitment and expansion.
* Identify and develop major donors with help of Executive Director and Board.
* Defining and maintaining membership program, growing membership.
* Define and maintain project-specific fundraising.
* Schedule and plan public and member events (social, conferences, fundraisers) with the DirOps to drive interest in TSI.
* Identifying grant opportunities, grant-writing.
* Public outreach online and in print media, respond to press inquiries.
* Attend conferences and events to network and advertise the organization.
* Maintain online presence for TSI on various social networking sites.
* Coordinate the writing and distribution of monthly newsletters and the Annual Report.
Note that we offer a $1,000 referral bonus for this position, if you refer a candidate who later gets hired.