Development Director (with bonus structure)

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Job Type:Full TimeStart Date:March 2, 2026Application Deadline:February 13, 2026Education:4-Year Degree RequiredExperience Level:DirectorSalary:USD $85,000 - $100,000 / yearIdealist encourages all organizations to include salary ranges when possible. Please consider this range a "best estimate" rather than a firm or final offer.Plus bonus structureCause Areas:Mental Health, Health & Medicine, Community Development, Education

Description

The LoveYourBrain Foundation is a US-based nonprofit that improves the mental, physical, and social well-being of people with brain injury and caregivers. Since 2014, we’ve been pioneering the use of mindfulness, yoga, psychoeducation, nutrition, and community-building programs for healing, advancing the science behind our holistic approach in clinical and community-based settings, and re-imagining how people can actively participate in their healing. This is an exciting time for our organization--we’ve recently reached our 10-year anniversary, refining our strategic vision, and our Executive Director was recently recognized as a Top Ten CNN Hero (see video segment here).

Position Summary: The Development Director is instrumental in growing LoveYourBrain’s multifaceted fundraising activities. As part of the leadership team and critical thought partner to the Executive Director, the position develops, implements, and manages a comprehensive fundraising strategy to achieve the goal of 15-20% financial growth annually. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of growing a nonprofit organizational budget of $1M+ through a diverse portfolio of revenue streams, and must have demonstrated success with:
Major Donors: identification and acquisition of new major donors at the 10K+ level, and stewardship of existing major donor portfolio
- Events and campaigns: leading strategy and growth of events and fundraising campaigns that include peer-to-peer as a primary revenue driver
- Manage a grant writer and/or skills in prospecting and writing grants
- Corporate partnerships and sponsorships
This candidate must have exceptional interpersonal and writing skills, strong analytical skills, and be a collaborative leader. This role requires travel throughout the U.S. to steward relationships and lead events throughout the year.

If you share LoveYourBrain’s values of being real, compassionate, inclusive, fun, and curious, we’d love to speak with you. The LYB community believes in respect for all people and the planet. We embrace and strive for a community that values differences and prioritizes equity. Regardless of how you identify, or how the world sees you, please feel welcome to apply and join our community.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Major and Mid-Level Donor Engagement & Stewardship

• Lead and cultivate a portfolio of major and mid-level donors ($10K - $99K)
• Develop and implement stewardship strategies to strengthen donor relationships
• Identify and transition high-capacity donors into principal gifts ($100K+)
• Plan and execute donor engagement events and stewardship initiatives (in-person and virtual) to build impactful interactions with donors

• Collaborate with Development Manager to analyze and leverage donor data in prospecting and segmentation strategies
  Institutional Fundraising

• Develop and execute foundation and corporate fundraising strategy, including diversified portfolio of yearly and multi-year grants and large-scale funding partnerships from $10k-$200k

• Build relationship management strategies with key and target funders and cultivate new funding opportunities

• Ensure stewardship of institutional donors, including impact reports and engagement opportunities across programs and events
  Events & Campaigns

• Oversee the strategy and implementation of 5 primary events and campaigns annually (i.e., $50k-$100k goal per event)
  Collaboration and Strategy Development

• Partner with leadership team to implement comprehensive and cohesive fundraising strategy

• Work with Development Manager to analyze donor data and trends, ensuring data-informed fundraising decisions
• Collaborate with Marketing and Communications to develop impact-driven messaging and donor touchpoints to increase engagement and retention donor
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of fundraising trends, best practices, and legal regulations to ensure the organization’s approach remains innovative and compliant

• Oversee Development Manager, ensuring their role spearheads event logistics, donor communications, and stewardship initiatives, while supporting their professional development and growth opportunities
  In addition:

• Opportunity to serve on the Leadership Team

• Opportunity to serve on Equity Team to advance our vision of being a more equitable, anti-racist organization
• Willingness and flexibility to contribute to projects outside of your primary scope of work.
  While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Minimum Requirements:

• At least 5-15 years experience in directing nonprofit fundraising, preferably focused on holistic health services for marginalized communities
• Demonstrated track record of successfully securing major gifts and developing sustainable donor relationships.
• Proven success in creating and executing annual fundraising campaigns, events, and peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives.
• Strong writing skills that has successfully translated into securing grants and corporate sponsorships
• Proficient in working with Classy, Salesforce, Google platform, Microsoft Office Suite
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage and inspire a wide range of stakeholders.
• Highly-developed organizational skills with a keen attention to detail, and a demonstrated ability to effectively prioritize tasks and meet deadlines
• Strong manager with ability to effectively delegate and inspire team collaboration

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent)
  Qualifications and skills strongly preferred:

• CFRE preferred

• Experience implementing community-centric fundraising model
• Experience with people affected by traumatic brain injury or other disabilities

• Mindfulness and yoga practitioner/teacher or passion for holistic health approaches
  Physical Requirements:

• Travel in the US by air and/or car (must have license, passport)

• Drive a car
  Work Environment:

• Ability to effectively work remotely

• Ability to work on a computer for up to 8 hours per day
• Ability to talk over the phone or video conferencing (multiple times a day)
• Ability to work over weekends (occasionally)
  LoveYourBrain is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please email us at [email protected] and let us know. LoveYourBrain is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
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Benefits

We provide the following core benefits for full-time employee positions.

• Health insurance coverage for 100% of BCBS VT Bronze level or a pre-tax stipend
• Delta Dental insurance (basic plan)
• 19 days PTO (longer based on duration at LYB) + 7 days sick/personal + 9 Federal Holidays
• Summer hours – half days on Fridays in July and August (equivalent of 4 days PTO)
• 12 weeks fully paid leave for person giving birth/primary caregiver and 4 weeks fully paid for secondary caregiver

Level of Language Proficiency

English

Location

RemoteWork can be performed from anywhere in United States

Associated Location

P.O. Box 247, Norwich, VT 05055, United States

How to Apply

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Please submit:

• A cover letter that directly addresses 1) how you meet the selection criteria and 2) motivations for applying to this position
• Resume or CV
• 3 writing samples that demonstrate your skills and alignment with the role (eg: development plan for an organization, campaign appeal, grant proposal, major donor or sponsorship proposal)
  We encourage you to apply as soon as possible as interviews are scheduled on a rolling basis. Potential candidates will be offered a formal interview via videoconference with key LoveYourBrain staff and then a subsequent interview with the Executive Director.
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This role creates positive change by growing LoveYourBrain's fundraising capacity, enabling the organization to expand its holistic programs that improve mental, physical, and social well-being for people with brain injuries and their caregivers.

Required qualifications:

• 5-15 years experience in directing nonprofit fundraising, preferably in holistic health services for marginalized communities
• Proven track record of securing major gifts and developing sustainable donor relationships
• Strong writing skills with demonstrated success in securing grants and corporate sponsorships
• Proficient in Classy, Salesforce, Google platform, and Microsoft Office Suite

Benefits and culture highlights:

• Opportunity to serve on the Leadership Team
• Opportunity to serve on Equity Team to advance organizational equity and anti-racism
• Remote work environment with ability to work effectively remotely
• Commitment to reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals
• Equal Opportunity Employer actively seeking candidates from diverse backgrounds

LoveYourBrain Foundation is a US-based nonprofit that improves the mental, physical, and social well-being of people with brain injury and caregivers through mindfulness, yoga, psychoeducation, nutrition, and community-building programs.