About
Repair the World mobilizes Jews and their communities to take action to pursue a just world. We believe that service in support of social change is vital to a flourishing Jewish community and an inspired Jewish life. By 2030, Repair will inspire and catalyze one million acts of service toward repairing the world.
Repair is building a national Jewish service movement of flourishing Jewish communities that serve in pursuit of a just world. Repair mobilizes young adults to serve in their communities, catalyzes service through deep partnerships within Jewish communal organizations, and inspires people to take action through time-bound thematic national service campaigns. Our mission provides volunteers with an increased connection to meaningful service and learning as a Jewish value, builds capacity for nonprofit partners to meet their missions, and deepens connections across lines of difference.
Position Overview
Are you an excellent communicator and detail-oriented professional who wants to tell the story of the Jewish service movement? Repair the World seeks a strong and creative writer, researcher, and project manager to be our Manager, Donor Communications and Grants. This role will be a vital contributor to Repair’s fundraising efforts through designing and executing novel communication strategies to engage donors including fundraising campaigns, grant writing and reporting, and creating collateral pieces to tell Repair’s story. This role requires strong writing (clear and compelling storytelling), creativity, and project management skills.
This role reports directly to the Director, Development, and is a full-time, exempt remote position on Repair’s strategy team.
Position Responsibilities
Donor Communications & Annual Giving Strategy: Innovate and execute large-scale and personalized donor communications and campaigns to steward and grow individual donor base (40%)
- Develop and implement donor communication strategies, including fundraising campaigns strategy, for donors across giving levels to solicit, steward, and drive increased giving
- Design tools for individual donor stewardship communications, including toolkits, quarterly newsletters, monthly community donor updates, and more
- Develop compelling solicitations and pitches for core and strategic initiatives
- Draft content, including emails, donor letters, and SMS, for donor stewardship and solicitation throughout the year and especially during Repair’s two main fundraising campaigns
Grant Writing and Reporting: Partner with Director, Development and other development team members to support institutional fundraising efforts (35%)
- Write, edit, and submit compelling reports and proposals for grants of $25,000 or less
- Gather information from internal stakeholders to support grant writing and reporting, including stories, data points, and visual storytelling elements
- Prepare donor collateral and report addendums to tell Repair’s story
Grants Management and Research: Support institutional fundraising through prospect research and strong project management (25%)
- Identify, research, and vet new foundation, federation, and corporation prospects
- Maintain and regularly communicate a detailed grants calendar for proposals, reports, and documentation
- Document and implement a detailed grants protocol to ensure alignment on grant requirements across internal stakeholders
- Coordinate internal communications around grants including leading grant kick-off meetings
Position Requirements and Skills
- 3+ years of professional writing experience in fundraising, nonprofit, public relations, or a related field, 1+ year of grant writing experience preferred
- Excellent written communication skills, especially integrating data and storytelling for impactful pitches
- Ability to effectively draft and edit written communication such as emails, donor letters, and presentations
- Creative problem-solver; able to anticipate and solve problems independently, and manage multiple projects and tasks with competing priorities
- Excellent project management and organizational skills with attention to detail and commitment to follow-through
- Basic understanding of grant budgeting, or eagerness to learn
- Experience with Salesforce or an equivalent CRM, preferred
- Experience with Monday.com, or an equivalent project management tool, preferred
- Passion for Repair the World’s mission and organizational values that guide our work with the frame of repairing the world, tikkun olam, leading to the pursuit of justice, tzedek
Repair the World Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We deeply value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from backgrounds typically underrepresented in Jewish institutions. This includes Black, Latinx, and Asian people, Black Jews, Jews of Color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and gender non-conforming people, and people with disabilities. We also welcome applications from people of diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds.
The organization provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression, age, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic predisposition or carrier status, national origin, disability condition, marital status, status as veteran, or any other protected characteristic as established by law. In addition, the organization affirmatively seeks to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity as it applies to all policies and procedures relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, termination, and all other terms and conditions of employment.
Compensation
Compensation at Repair the World is determined based on the salary band for the role and adjusted based on the cost of living where the final candidate resides. For candidates with 3+ years of grant writing and/or donor communications experience, starting compensation for this role ranges from $55,000 - $81,000 depending on the candidate’s location. If you have additional experience, let’s talk.
Benefits package includes paid time off for service in addition to vacation, sick time, personal days and holidays. Employer covers 100% of full-time employee’s health premiums (medical/dental/vision) for most plans and 50% for dependents. Additional benefits include retirement matching, professional development funds, employer-paid short and long term disability coverage plus access to the Jewish Learning Collaborative and our Economic Access Fund. In addition, employees that have been with Repair for at least six months are eligible for 16 weeks of paid parental leave (pro-rated for employees with Repair less than 6 months).
This position is included in Repair’s staff union-represented collective bargaining unit and specific terms and conditions of employment may be subject to a future collective bargaining agreement between Repair the World and the Repair the World Workers’ union.
Application Process
- Submit your application here including your resume and a thoughtful and concise cover letter responding to the prompt: What is an experience that has prepared you to tell Repair’s story to donors and supporters?
- First round interviews will be with Repair’s recruiter.
- Applicants who move forward will be asked to complete & submit a written assignment and interview with Repair’s Senior Directors of Development.
- Two professional references will be requested before the final round of the interview process.