DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY
MANAGER
Development and Outreach Department
(New York Office)
Application Deadline: October 25, 2013

Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Manager in the Development and Outreach Department.  This position will report to the Director of the New York Committee.

Responsibilities:

1. Managing the production of fundraising, outreach and cultivation events in New York, including HRW's annual Voices for Justice dinner, Film Festival Benefit, researcher briefings, advocacy and cultivation events;

2. Managing fundraising and outreach for the Film Festival Benefit;

3. Cultivating, servicing, and soliciting a small portfolio of Committee Members;

4. Assisting the Director to identify, cultivate, service, and solicit individual donors, prospects and Committee members;

5. Managing various aspects of the New York Committee including Committee communication and an annual retreat;

6. Coordinating select initiatives and helping manage the New York Committee’s executive and sub-committees with these initiatives;

7. Creating agendas, preparing background materials, and conducting follow-up to meetings;

8. Managing communications with constituents via phone, mail and electronic media;

9. Coordinating membership support services for the New York office including mailings, gift tracking, gift processing and acknowledgments, using HRW's Raiser's Edge (RE) database;

10. Creating and tracking donor lists, fundraising, and expenses;

11. Coordinating public programs and outreach, forming relationships with partner organizations, and identifying new opportunities;

12. Advertising, recruiting, training and coordinating the work of fixed-term staff and interns;

13. Assisting with donor research and profiles and managing RE donor entry; and

14. Performing other responsibilities as may be required.

Qualifications

Education:  A bachelor’s degree is required.

Experience:  Minimum three to five years of fundraising experience is required as well as demonstrated experience with logistics, coordination and production of events.

Related Skills and Knowledge:

1. Experience coordinating events, preferably large-scale events, is required.

2. Ability to develop and implement project timelines and execute these timelines working in liaison with staff and external partners.

3. Creativity, initiative, follow-through and excellent organizational skills are required.

4. Excellent oral and written communications skills in English are required.

5. Ability to work with donors is required.

6. Strong interpersonal skills in order to work collaboratively within HRW as well as with external partners are required.

7. Demonstrated commitment to human rights and/or international issues and the capacity to master and represent the mission and programs of HRW is essential.

8. Strong technology skills, including experience with donor databases and knowledge of social media are highly desirable.

9. An entrepreneurial spirit and the discipline to work independently, but also the ability to function as a member of a development team is highly desirable.

Salary and Benefits:  Human Rights Watch offers comprehensive employer-paid benefits, including medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance, an outstanding retirement savings plan and twenty (20) days vacation per year.

Contact: Please submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae, a brief writing sample (unedited by others), and contact information for three references to devjobs@hrw.org.  Please use “Manager Ref: DEV-13-1049-A” as the subject of your email. 

Only complete applications will be reviewed and only qualified candidates will be contacted.

Human Rights Watch is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in its hiring practices and, in order to build the strongest possible workforce, actively seeks a diverse applicant pool.

Human Rights Watch is an international human rights monitoring and advocacy organization known for its in-depth investigations, its incisive and timely reporting, its innovative and high-profile advocacy campaigns, and its success in changing the human rights-related policies and practices of influential governments and international institutions.