About us

Founded 50 years ago, ICCR is a pioneer coalition of over 300 active institutional investor members who leverage their investments as a catalyst for change. ICCR members work in coalition to engage the world's largest corporations on a range of social and environmental issues impacting communities in the U.S. and globally, including human rights and worker justice; climate change; health equity; and corporate influence via lobbying and political spending. To learn more about ICCR, please visit www.iccr.org

About this role

The Development Officer will play a key role working with the ICCR leadership team to help ensure the financial sustainability of the organization and the success of its programs and services. The Development Officer will support the implementation of ICCR’s emerging major gift and individual donor strategies, engage current and potential donors to the organization, and track donor outreach and engagement.  

 Major responsibilities: 

• Works with the executive team to develop a major gift donor pipeline, including outreach to current and potential donors. 

• Supports the executive team on the implementation of individual donor and major gift donor and prospect outreach, including meeting preparation, follow up, and tracking touch points. 

• Plays an active role on the Development Team to support donor cultivation and strategize new ways to increase revenue. 

• Manages the development committee of the ICCR Governing Board, with support from the Membership/Development Associate. 

• Develops and implements the ICCR fundraising calendar including email communications to individuals, fundraising appeals and digital donor engagement opportunities. 

• Collaborates with the Director of Communications on development collateral as needed. 

About you

You are passionate about social change and believe that corporations should be held accountable for their impacts on people and planet. You have experience working with individual donors and are excited to help ICCR build out its fundraising capacity around major gifts. You enjoy building relationships with ICCR donors and stakeholders and sharing your passion for ICCR’s work with them. You are a team player eager to collaborate closely with the other members of ICCR’s staff. Specifically, you will be or have most or all of the following qualifications: 

• At least four years of nonprofit development experience with demonstrated success in growing an organization’s small and medium-dollar donor base 

• Passion for ICCR’s mission and programs 

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate and connect with donors whether by phone or in person 

• Impeccable organizational and project management skills, with a keen attentiveness to detail while meeting multiple deadlines 

• Proficiency in CRM database usage to track, manage, and analyze related data; experience with Salesforce is a huge plus 

• Demonstrated ability to work well within a team, as well as to work independently, juggle multiple tasks, and interact closely with colleagues 

• Ability to occasionally work outside regular hours as needed for events and donor meetings 

   

Job Requirements

• You must have the ability to work in the United States. Unfortunately,  ICCR is unable to sponsor applicants for employment visas for this role.

• Ability to work on East Coast time.

• Preference will be given to those in the NYC area. However, we are open to candidates outside of NYC who are able to travel to New York as needed for ICCR conferences, events, and donor meetings.

  Benefits 

  This position does not include paid benefits, but includes paid vacation, sick days, personal days, and ICCR paid holidays, pro-rated for part-time. Professional development will be provided as appropriate.

  We apologize that because of the volume of applications, we are able to respond only to those applicants granted an interview. No phone calls please.

Note on the BeApplied system

The job application for this role includes the opportunity to provide ICCR with demographic data to help us understand the diversity of our overall applicant pool. None of this information will be linked to individual candidates, and candidates will have the opportunity to opt-in or opt-out of sharing this information. ICCR will not be told who has chosen to share that information nor will that decision be linked to your job application.