Responsibilities

• Lead Trinity’s development strategy in alignment with the school’s mission, strategic priorities, financial sustainability, and purposefully small preschool through Grade 5 model.
• Develop, implement, and evaluate an annual development plan that includes fundraising, donor engagement, stewardship, communications, volunteer participation, and event goals.
• Lead the annual giving program, including strategy, messaging, segmentation, volunteer engagement, solicitation, follow-up, reporting, and stewardship.
• Partner with the Head of School and Board leadership to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors in support of annual giving, campaign priorities, special projects, and long-term institutional needs.
• Identify and develop new sources of philanthropic support, including alumni families, grandparents, friends of the school, corporate partners, foundations, and other mission-aligned prospects.
• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with current families, alumni families, grandparents, trustees, former trustees, employees, friends of the school, and community partners.
• Design and implement stewardship practices that ensure donors are thanked promptly, recognized appropriately, and shown the impact of their giving.
• Lead or coordinate major fundraising events, including the gala and other advancement events, with responsibility for fundraising strategy, volunteer coordination, donor engagement, sponsorship opportunities, event messaging, and follow-up.
• Support donor cultivation by preparing materials, tracking outreach, coordinating next steps, and partnering with the Head of School and trustees on relationship-centered donor engagement.
• Support long-term philanthropic opportunities, including endowment growth, through donor education, stewardship, messaging, and coordinated development planning.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required, or equivalent combination of education, training, and relevant experience; degree in development, marketing, communications, nonprofit management, education, or related field preferred.
• Significant experience in fundraising, development, donor relations, communications, marketing, nonprofit management, or related relationship-centered work.
• Experience in an independent school, elementary school, nonprofit, Episcopal, or mission-driven organization strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and implement fundraising, donor engagement, communications, marketing, stewardship, and volunteer strategies.
• Experience with annual giving, donor cultivation, campaign support, advancement operations, Board or volunteer support, and fundraising events.
• Experience with donor databases, gift tracking, pledge tracking, stewardship systems, event tracking, advancement reporting, and confidential constituent records.
• Excellent writing, editing, verbal communication, presentation, storytelling, and audience-specific messaging skills.
• Strong relationship-building skills with donors, families, trustees, volunteers, employees, alumni families, community partners, parent leaders, and external audiences.
• Strong organizational, project management, documentation, communication, and follow-through skills.
• Technologically adept and able to learn and manage donor databases, communications platforms, email tools, content management systems, spreadsheets, reports, digital media, and basic analytics.
• Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and respectful engagement across differences.
• High level of confidentiality, judgment, flexibility, creativity, resilience, optimism, and service orientation.

Preferred

• Degree in development, marketing, communications, nonprofit management, education, or related field preferred.
• Experience in an independent school, elementary school, nonprofit, Episcopal, or mission-driven organization strongly preferred.