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Position: Development Manager
Organization: Asian Prisoner Support Committee
Salary (if exempt): Hours: $75,000 - $85,000 annually
Hours: Full-time at 40 hours per week
FLSA status: Exempt
Location: Remote, in-office in Oakland, or hybrid
Reports to: One of the APSC Co-Directors
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis
Posting: September 2023

About Asian Prisoner Support Committee

The Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) was founded in 2002 to provide culturally competent services to the currently and formerly incarcerated Asian and Pacific Islander (API) community. APSC’s flagship program, Restoring Our Original True Selves (“ROOTS”) in San Quentin, seeks to increase understanding about immigrant/refugee history, intergenerational trauma, leadership development, and reentry planning. APSC provides peer-led, culturally rooted reentry programs (care management, support groups, employment pathways, and more) to recently released APIs from San Quentin State Prison, Santa Rita County Jail, and Immigration jails. APSC also leads freedom campaigns and advocacy for people facing deportation. With over 18 years of experience conducting organizing activities within California prisons, APSC has successfully established a Prison-to-Leadership pipeline with currently and formerly incarcerated communities. APSC is one of the only organizations in the nation led by formerly incarcerated APIs in its staff and leadership—and is a national model for criminal justice transformation.

About Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality

The Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) network was launched in 2014 to focus on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders committed to social justice. Including APSC, there are currently 11 partnering member groups with unique strengths. Fiscal sponsorship, administrative, and operational support is provided centrally for all of these groups so they can focus on their core programs. Staff hired under APSC will be employees of AACRE.

Position Overview

APSC seeks a visionary, strategic, and goal-oriented Development Manager. Reporting to one of the Co-Directors and working closely with organization leadership, the Development Manager will play a critical role with APSC’s fundraising efforts, contributing to a sustainable and thriving organization. The ideal candidate is a skilled fundraiser who has creative ideas about development for a growing organization. They will have demonstrated success in a development role, including a track record of securing foundation grants, sponsorships, and/or individual major gifts. They are highly organized, know how to set priorities, and have a demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, at times under tight deadlines. The Development Manager is an excellent writer, clear communicator, and relationship builder who is committed to the organization's mission.

The Development Manager can work at APSC’s Oakland office, remotely, or a combination of the two, and there is a strong preference for candidates who already reside in the Bay Area.

Key Responsibilities

Foundations Work:

●  Manage APSC’s foundation grants calendar and ensure reporting deadlines are met

●  Write grant proposals, reports, and letters of inquiry

●  Identify and analyze trends in foundation funding in relevant issue areas

●  Work closely with the Co-Directors to establish new and deepen existing foundation relationships

Individual Giving:

●  Lead APSC’s individual donor solicitation through direct mail, email appeals, and other methods to cultivate gift donors

●  Manage stewardship of individual donors including new donor welcome packets, timely thank yous, and identification of engagement activities

●  Expand APSC’s monthly sustainer program

●  Solicit and track gift donations

Development Operations:

● Work with AACRE Donor Systems & Compliance Manager to effectively communicate with donors

Major Donor program:
● Support cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of major donors by assisting the Co-Directors, including following up on information requests, arranging periodic one-on-one meetings, documenting donor interactions, and helping to identify engagement activities for major donors

Events:

●  Support APSC fundraising (virtual and in-person) events, including assisting with logistics and production tasks for events, producing event communications and collateral, and tracking event RSVPs

●  In coordination with the Co-Directors, identify and solicit event sponsors

Institutional Funding:

●  Work with the Co-Directors to manage foundation, government, and corporate partners

●  Facilitate timely communication with program leadership

●  Manage grant calendar for new and renewal applications

●  Conduct research on institutional prospects

●  Work with Co-Directors on submission of proposals and reports

Communications:

● Work with leadership to ensure that the overall communication strategy aligns with development goals

Qualifications

● Three to seven years of experience in development, especially in individual campaigns and grant seeking, with demonstrated experience raising five and six-figure individual gifts and six-figure grants

● Shared belief in APSC’s mission and values

● Excellent presentation and communications (written and oral) skills

● The ability to take initiative while remaining open to opportunities for growth

● Skills in collaboration and teamwork

● Flexible and adaptable, entrepreneurial, can-do attitude

● Negotiation and follow-up skills to close donations, sponsorships, and funding

● Budgeting and financial planning

● Experience in overseeing a small development office

● An understanding and commitment to racial, equity, and social justice issues and being realistically optimistic will help you succeed in this position

To Apply

Formerly incarcerated people are highly encouraged to apply. Please submit a cover letter, resume and writing sample to http://bit.ly/apscdevelopmentmanager.

Visit https://www.asianprisonersupport.com/ for more information.

AACRE is committed to creating a work environment that is free from discrimination and a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Women, people of color, immigrants, queer and trans people, individuals with conviction and arrest records, and those who are differently-abled people are encouraged to apply.

AACRE will consider those who seek visa sponsorship upon hire, and employees may be eligible for green card sponsorship after 3 months of continuous employment, contingent upon leadership approvals.