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Development Director

HAVEN is dedicated to eliminating domestic and sexual violence through education, support, and social change. Our mission is to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking, and to support and empower all women, men, non-binary and transgender adults, youth and families to heal from abuse and rebuild their lives.

Position Overview
The Development Director leads HAVEN’s fundraising strategy and donor relations to fuel the organization’s mission and sustain long-term growth at a pivotal moment in its history. As HAVEN advances the Building Dignity capital campaign—the most significant fundraising effort in its history—this role carries dual responsibility: closing transformational major gifts and building the systems, team, and pipeline that will sustain giving well beyond the campaign.
This is both a frontline fundraising role and a leadership role. The Director personally cultivates and solicits major donors while building and managing a four-person development and communications team. The ideal candidate is a proven major-gifts fundraiser who also understands communications deeply enough to direct a Communications Manager, align messaging with fundraising strategy, and ensure HAVEN’s public narrative reflects its impact, scale, and ambition.

Key Responsibilities

Fundraising Strategy & Revenue
•    Multi-Year Plan: Develop and execute a comprehensive, multi-year Fundraising Development Plan aligned with HAVEN’s strategic vision, with a goal of raising over $1.5 million annually.
•    Revenue Forecasting: Forecast annual and quarterly revenue, donor renewal, and acquisition; track progress against goals using data-driven reporting.
•    Diversified Pipeline: Use research-based strategies to grow giving and participation across the annual fund, major gifts, planned giving, corporate sponsorship, and foundation support.

Major Gifts & Donor Relationships
•    Portfolio Management: Identify, research, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of major individual donors, corporate sponsors, and foundations to secure new, renewed, sustained, and increased support.
•    Relationship Building: Serve as a key point of contact for current and prospective donors through personal visits, calls, letters, and personalized acknowledgments that deepen long-term engagement.
•    Cultivation & Recognition: Design and coordinate cultivation, stewardship, and recognition events for major donors and prospects.

Capital Campaign Leadership
•    Campaign Execution: Play a central role in the oversight of the Building Dignity capital campaign, partnering with the Campaign Manager, Executive Director, and Campaign Steering Committee.
•    Campaign Materials: Direct the development of campaign communications—case for support, donor proposals, presentation decks, and stewardship pieces—in coordination with the Communications Manager.

Team Leadership & Management
•    Build & Lead the Team: Hire, train, mentor, and manage a development and communications team of three: a Communications Manager, Community Engagement Coordinator, and a Campaign Manager.
•    Coach the Communications Manager: Provide direction and accountability to the Communications Manager—setting messaging priorities, reviewing strategy and output, and ensuring all communications are aligned with fundraising goals. 
•    Foster Culture: Build a collaborative, mission-driven culture; set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and develop staff capacity over time.
•    Integrate Functions: Ensure development and communications operate as one coordinated engine—so donor strategy drives content, and content advances donor strategy.

Communications Alignment
•    Messaging Discipline: Ensure HAVEN’s donor-facing and public messaging is clear, consistent, professional, and campaign-ready across all channels.
•    Case for Support: Craft and refine compelling cases for support and donor narratives that translate HAVEN’s impact into giving.
•    Brand Stewardship: Partner with leadership to protect and elevate HAVEN’s reputation with sophisticated donors, institutional partners, and regional stakeholders.

Board Engagement & Operations
•    Board & Committee Support: Staff the Development Committee; prepare fundraising reports and equip board members to play an active, confident role in fundraising.
•    Development Operations: Oversee donor database management, gift acknowledgment, prospect research, and data integrity using Little Green Light (or equivalent CRM).
•    Grants: Oversee the grant pipeline—researching opportunities, ensuring compelling proposals, and maintaining funder compliance and reporting.
•    Mission Fluency: Develop and maintain a deep understanding of HAVEN’s programs so donors can accomplish their philanthropic goals through their relationship with HAVEN.
•    Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Required
•    Experience: Minimum 5–7 years of nonprofit development experience, including a proven track record of directly soliciting and securing major gifts and meeting or exceeding revenue targets.
•    Major Gifts Record: Demonstrated success developing and executing cultivation and solicitation strategies that close five- and six-figure gifts.
•    People Leadership: Experience managing and developing development and/or communications staff, with the ability to bring out the best in a team.
•    Communications Fluency: Strong communications judgment and outstanding written communication skills—sufficient to direct a Communications Manager, shape messaging strategy, and craft compelling cases for support.
•    Relationship Skills: Exceptional interpersonal and networking skills; able to build authentic, lasting donor relationships.
•    Integrity: High integrity and discretion in handling sensitive donor and organizational information.
•    Database Literacy: Proficiency with Little Green Light or equivalent donor CRM software.
Preferred
•    Campaign Experience: Direct experience supporting or leading a capital campaign.
•    Regional Network: An established personal and professional network in the Greater Seacoast area.
•    Mission Alignment: Familiarity with, or commitment to, the mission of supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Equity & Inclusion
From HAVEN’s inception, Diversity & Inclusion have always been key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for improving people’s lives. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion, and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are inextricably linked with all aspects of HAVEN’s mission to end violence and change lives.

Completion of a Criminal Record Check is required for hire.

 Please submit your cover letter and resume to info@havennh.org  

Communications Manager

HAVEN is dedicated to eliminating domestic and sexual violence through education, support, and social change. Our mission is to prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking, and to support and empower all women, men, non-binary and transgender adults, youth and families to heal from abuse and rebuild their lives.

Position Summary
The Communications Manager sets and carries out the strategy behind HAVEN’s storytelling, brand, and public voice at a defining moment in the organization’s history. Reporting to the Director of Development and working closely with the Community Engagement Coordinator and Campaign Manager, this role ensures that HAVEN’s communications are not only consistent and compelling but strategically aligned with the organization’s fundraising goals and the Building Dignity capital campaign.

This is a strategic lead role, not a production-only position. The ideal candidate is a seasoned nonprofit communicator who understands how strategic communications drive mission and revenue—and who has a proven record of creating content for multiple, distinct nonprofit audiences, each with different needs, levels of understanding, and goals. They can move fluently between a major donor, a first-time event guest, a community partner, a journalist, and a survivor audience, calibrating message, tone, and channel for each.

Key Responsibilities

Communications Strategy
•    Set the Strategy: Develop and own HAVEN’s communications strategy, ensuring it advances organizational goals, fundraising priorities, and the Building Dignity campaign.
•    Audience Segmentation: Map HAVEN’s distinct audiences—major donors, annual donors and prospects, institutional and corporate partners, community members, media, and survivors—and tailor messaging, channel, and tone for each.
•    Messaging Discipline: Maintain a clear, consistent messaging framework so that every piece of content reinforces HAVEN’s impact, scale, and ambition.
•    Editorial Planning: Maintain and run the communications calendar, coordinating content across the team and aligning it to development milestones and awareness moments.
Content Creation & Storytelling
•    Write & Edit: Produce and edit compelling content for the website, blog, e-newsletters, annual report, and campaign materials.
•    Donor & Campaign Copy: Craft fundraising appeals, donor stewardship pieces, and case-for-support language in partnership with the Director of Development.
•    Trauma-Informed Storytelling: Tell powerful, respectful, trauma-informed stories that honor survivors’ dignity and consent while moving audiences to act.
•    Multi-Format Content: Develop content across formats—written, graphic, and short-form video—that communicates program impact clearly to different audiences.
Brand & Digital Management
•    Brand Stewardship: Own HAVEN’s voice and brand standards, ensuring consistency across all internal and public-facing collateral.
•    Website: Oversee website content, keeping it current, accurate, and mission-aligned.
•    Channel Strategy: Set the strategy and standards for HAVEN’s digital channels; partner with the Community Engagement Coordinator, who leads day-to-day execution, to ensure social content reflects the broader communications plan.
Public Relations & Media
•    Media Relations: Draft and distribute press releases and media advisories; serve as a coordinating point of contact for media inquiries and help prepare and schedule leadership interviews.
•    Measurement: Track and interpret communications metrics—website traffic, email performance, and social analytics—to evaluate impact and continuously improve.
•    Reputation: Help protect and elevate HAVEN’s reputation with sophisticated donors, institutional partners, and regional stakeholders.
•    Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications & Skills
Required
•    Experience: Minimum 3–5 years in communications, marketing, or storytelling, with substantial experience in the nonprofit or social impact sector.
•    Multi-Audience Content: Demonstrated record of creating content for multiple, distinct nonprofit audiences—donors, partners, community, media, and program participants—with different needs, understanding, and goals.
•    Strategic Communications: Deep understanding of how strategic nonprofit communications support mission, fundraising, and campaign goals—not just content production.
•    Writing: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; proven ability to tell powerful, trauma-informed, and respectful stories.
•    Technical Skills: Proficiency with content management systems (e.g., WordPress), email marketing tools (e.g., Mailchimp), and design tools (e.g., Canva or Adobe Creative Suite).
•    Collaboration: A collaborative spirit, strong organizational skills, and a keen eye for detail.
Preferred
•    Campaign Communications: Experience supporting a capital campaign or major fundraising initiative.
•    Sensitive Subject Matter: Experience communicating on behalf of organizations working with vulnerable populations or sensitive issues.
•    Mission Alignment: Commitment to supporting survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Equity & Inclusion
From HAVEN’s inception, Diversity & Inclusion have always been key to our success. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and our employees are people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds who share a passion for improving people’s lives. Diversity not only includes race and gender identity, but also age, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, religion, and many other parts of one’s identity. All of our employees’ points of view are key to our success, and inclusion is everyone’s responsibility. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are inextricably linked with all aspects of HAVEN’s mission to end violence and change lives.

Completion of a Criminal Record Check is required for hire.

 Please submit your cover letter and resume to info@havennh.org