Development Director

Position Type :

Administration / Coordinator

Date Posted : 9 / 16 / 2025

Location :

St Thomas More K-8 DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR

St. Thomas More School

The Development Director will report to the Principal and is responsible for planning, coordinating, directing, and reconciling activities that attract the support needed to provide sufficient resources for the school to achieve its mission. The ideal candidate is an experienced person who has the skills to raise funds and build a network of supporters. This will be accomplished by reviewing, updating, and implementing the Development Plan and implementing fundraising campaigns that demonstrate vision and initiative by identifying, cultivating and soliciting various donors to support the operational needs of the school. To start, this is a part-time (28 hours / week) position.

Primary Responsibilities

• Work with the Principal and other committees to create, implement and monitor development goals and annual fund raising effectiveness.
• Responsible for all phases of giving including individual, family, alumni, foundation and corporate giving.
• Design, implement and manage all fundraising activities including annual giving, events / raffles, corporate giving, endowment, special projects and other solicitations.
• Maintain all strategies and activities for donor cultivation, solicitation and relations.
• Ensure maintenance of donor records and good stewardship recognition of contributors including donor fundraising reports, donor recognition newsletters and events.
• Formulate and implement a marketing and community relations plan, designed to promote St. Thomas More School.
• Support and promote School activities to alumni, prospective donors, benefactors, corporate sponsors and foundation representatives via Facebook, website postings and other social media.
• Create office systems to support all development projects and operations including managing the database and all records, files and gift processing.
• Organize and support the Alumni Association, including organizing alumni events, collecting news and information about the members of the alumni for publication and keeping accurate records of the School's alumni.
• Manage and maintain the alumni database.
• Work with committees to identify and train core groups of volunteers to assist in development and alumni programs as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Demonstrated Competencies Required

Minimum Qualifications