About Fair Food Network

Fair Food Network is a national nonprofit whose mission is to grow community health and wealth through food. A decade in, our work is connecting people to the power of food to improve health, support farmers, ignite local economies, and open opportunities for all. Our work testing and scaling replicable solutions has resulted in big changes in local communities, first through our innovative Double Up Food Bucks program, which today is a national model for healthy food incentives, and now through our Fair Food Fund investing in good food entrepreneurs. Together with our partners, we are pioneering and proving innovations that can be owned locally and scaled nationally, for lasting change in communities across the country.

For more information on Fair Food Network, please visit www.fairfoodnetwork.org.

The Opportunity

Fair Food Network is a dynamic and evolving organization that works at the intersection of people and food to grow community health and wealth. The Senior Director of Development will join a core team of committed staff members to lead Fair Food Network into its next ambitious chapter of fundraising.

This collaborative, self-starter will thrive in a team environment bringing extensive experience as a fundraising professional and team manager. Working in close coordination with the executive and program staff, the Senior Director of Development will be responsible for leading Fair Food Network’s large-scale fundraising initiatives, maintaining complex relationships with existing foundation donors, while diversifying the fundraising base through prospecting and development of a major gifts program with a focus on a long-term vision for growth.

The Senior Director of Development is committed to building a culture of philanthropy within Fair Food Network and will manage all fundraising systems and protocols for Fair Food Network, including a portfolio of donors. They will oversee a small team, ensuring departmental success through coaching, mentoring, and accountability. They must have the proven ability to manage for results, delegate effectively, and “manage up and out” to ensure executive and program staff are well-positioned to support and participate effectively in fundraising.

Fair Food Network has had significant fundraising success in its first decade, primarily through foundation relationships and government grants related to its Double Up Food Bucks program. This success has translated to double-digit organizational growth every year since our founding. As the organization enters its second decade, we are looking for a seasoned fundraising professional to help us sustain the systems and relationships we have already built, while positioning us for growth.

Responsibilities will include:

• Department Management: Plan and evaluate fundraising campaigns and activities, setting annual department targets and ensuring financial and activity objectives are achieved
• Team Management: Manage development team; re-define internal structure and roles, including the role(s) of additional staff and/or contractors
• Help develop new fundraising messages and strategies at organization-level as we refine top-level messaging and move away from siloed fundraising by program area
• Develop and implement a sustainable private fundraising plan for Double Up Food Bucks, especially as many of our original funders begin to transition away from support of the program they helped launch 10 years ago, including ideating a fundraising plan for a new Pay-For-Success (Social Impact Bonds) initiative
• Steward a large portfolio of foundation funders and a small portfolio of individual major donors and cultivating them for future giving
• Collaborate with the Fair Food Investment Initiative team on fundraising for our entrepreneur and impact investing work, including big picture strategy development around grants, PRIs, and other investment notes
• Liaise with Marketing and Communications team on the development of a retail fundraising/annual giving program
• Direct and mature development systems, and infrastructure to maximize department effectiveness
• Staying on top of fundraising trends and the nonprofit community to bring professional awareness of industry best practices, and the vision to integrate new processes and procedures
• Other duties as appropriate

Contact

Fair Food Network has engaged Koya Leadership Partners to help with this hire. To express interest in this opportunity, please submit a resume at https://talent-profile.koyapartners.com/search/3990.

Potential candidates may be asked to submit a brief written application and participate in a phone or video interview with Koya as initial steps.

All inquiries and discussions will be considered strictly confidential.

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Fair Food Network’s commitment to diversity includes the recognition that our mission is best advanced by contributions of people of diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and culture. Recruiting and mentoring staff to create an inclusive organization that reflects the diverse communities that we serve is a priority, and we encourage applicants of all ages, cultures, races, colors, religions, national or regional origins, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status or other status protected by law.