Development Manager
ITD - Institute for Training and Development (Strategies for Collaborative Impact Consulting - Jim Ayres)
Job Description
Who we are:
The Institute for Training and Development (ITD) is a leading internationally focused nonprofit organization based in Amherst, Massachusetts. ITD specializes in designing and implementing tailor-made courses, training programs, internship programs, and exchanges for NGO leaders, government officials, educators, students, businesspeople, community leaders, and others around the world. Since its founding in 1985, ITD has provided training for over 6,000 participants from more than 100 countries through funding from the U.S. Department of State, individual Fulbright Commissions, USAID, World Bank, FAO, UNDP, UNICEF, Peace Corps, private universities, and foreign governments.
The Institute for Training and Development (ITD) is a leading internationally focused nonprofit organization based in Amherst, Massachusetts. ITD specializes in designing and implementing tailor-made courses, training programs, internship programs, and exchanges for NGO leaders, government officials, educators, students, businesspeople, community leaders, and others around the world. Since its founding in 1985, ITD has provided training for over 6,000 participants from more than 100 countries through funding from the U.S. Department of State, individual Fulbright Commissions, USAID, World Bank, FAO, UNDP, UNICEF, Peace Corps, private universities, and foreign governments.
Our team works to develop and implement engaging, cross-cultural, educational programs pertaining to such themes as economic empowerment, rule of law, civic engagement, climate change, U.S. history and culture, business and entrepreneurship, global migration, and education. Our staff members are our most critical resource, ensuring that our programs are expertly promoted, organized, and implemented, as well as enhancing participants’ program experience through direct support during stateside and overseas programs.
Description
ITD seeks a Development Manager to advance new strategies for expanding and diversifying its revenue and improving visibility and understanding of ITD among stakeholders and prospective supporters. This is primarily an in-person position that is new to ITD and has been created by its leadership team and board of directors to advance their strategic goal of securing new funding streams such as grants from private foundations, support from individual donors, and new earned revenue opportunities.
ITD seeks a Development Manager to advance new strategies for expanding and diversifying its revenue and improving visibility and understanding of ITD among stakeholders and prospective supporters. This is primarily an in-person position that is new to ITD and has been created by its leadership team and board of directors to advance their strategic goal of securing new funding streams such as grants from private foundations, support from individual donors, and new earned revenue opportunities.
We are proud to have established a work culture built on trust, transparency, inclusion, mutual respect, close teamwork, and horizontal leadership. The Development Manager will be a core member of this team. This position reports to the ITD Executive Director.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
● Resource Development Research and Planning
● Resource Development Research and Planning
● Grant writing
● Securing Private Support
● Marketing and Communication
● Stakeholder Engagement
● Partnership Building
● Earned Revenue
Required Qualities and Experience:
● A minimum of five years’ experience in areas of resource development/fundraising, non-profit management, international development, and/or marketing.
● Excellent communication and organizational skills.
● A deep passion for intercultural dialog, international training, adult education and exchange.
● Strong computer skills/experience (CRM development/management, Microsoft Office Suite)
● Strong cultural self-awareness/cultural humility, flexibility and sense of humor.
● Commitment to championing diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice.
● Comfort working as both a self-starter and team-player.
● Knowledge and familiarity with grant research resources such as foundation databases
Preferred Qualities and Experience:
● High proficiency in a language other than English
● High proficiency in a language other than English
● Personal/professional experience with international/cultural exchange programming.
● Advanced degree/training in a relevant field (philanthropy, nonprofit management, global affairs, education)
Compensation:
Annual salary of $65,000 to $75,000 based on prior experience, skills and expertise, as well as a competitive benefit package that includes paid time off, professional development opportunities, employer health insurance contribution, and retirement contribution.
Annual salary of $65,000 to $75,000 based on prior experience, skills and expertise, as well as a competitive benefit package that includes paid time off, professional development opportunities, employer health insurance contribution, and retirement contribution.
Job title: Development Manager
Primary Location: Amherst, MA, United States
Schedule: Full-time, regular with occasional travel required
Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
Anticipated start: February 2024
To apply: Submit cover letter, and CV by email to:
Please be sure to use your cover letter to demonstrate the alignment of your skills, knowledge and experience with this particular position and with ITD.
ITD highly encourages applications from candidates from underrepresented backgrounds including people of color, foreign born individuals, children of immigrants, refugees and/or migrants, and people with non-traditional educational backgrounds.
ITD hopes to fill this position promptly. ITD is unable to sponsor H1B visas.
The Institute for Training and Development centers multiculturalism, equity and inclusion in its mission to deepen understanding, spread knowledge, exchange ideas and share culture with, and among, its program participants. We design program materials, hire staff, select speakers, and make decisions with these values at the forefront. We provide equal opportunity to, and encourage applications from people of all races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, gender identifications, incomes, ages, and physical abilities. We design programs that expose participants to the varying narratives about the United States, its people, its challenges and its triumphs. In doing so, ITD strives to expose participants to the multilayered and complex tapestry of America’s past, and current landscape.