Job Description:
Position Title: Chief Development Officer
FLSA Status: Exempt, Full-Time
Immediate Supervisor: President and CEO
Employees Supervised: Development Administrative Coordinator, Director of Communication, Director of Digital Strategy & Engagement, Donor Services Manager, Grants Manager, Senior Major Gifts Officer
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
• Member of Senior Leadership Team contributing to organization-wide strategic direction and decision-making.
• Works with President & CEO to develop annual and long-range fundraising strategies and goals.
• Actively fosters a productive and collaborative working environment, in alignment with organizational values.
• Meets budgeted fundraising goals.
• Prepares and monitors the departmental budget.
• Establishes departmental goals and goals for individuals in the department.
• Proactively develops strategies, grant requests, events, outreach and donor calls and funding ask as needed to support programs and activities of the Food Bank.
• Coordinates direct mail activities, including planning and implementation of direct mail program in collaboration with vendors and community partners.
• Develops and implements major gifts program.
• Updates and implements donor acknowledgement, stewardship, and cultivation process
• Ensures accurate and complete recordkeeping, including documentation of all interactions with donors in donor database
• Establishes and monitors plans to ensure active cultivation of relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Build relationships directly with a portfolio of current and prospective major donors
• Submit reports and updates to donors as necessary.
• Oversee the creation and execution of marketing and public relations plans.
• Develops written cultivation, solicitation and stewardship plans
• Helps coach and inspire staff, board members and others in cultivation of donors and prospects
• Partners with CEO, board members and others in making solicitations as appropriate
• Represents the HCFB as a media spokesperson as needed
• Oversees Development Working Group
• Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
General
• Adhere to HCFB expectations and values:
• Be active by moving quickly, getting things done and holding self and others accountable for results.
• Be constructive by providing solutions, displaying optimism, being respectful and fair.
• Be truthful by providing facts to support opinions, speaking up and not exaggerating.
• Humanize Hunger by putting a human face on it.
• Communicating in a professional, honest, and open manner.
• Take time to have fun along the way.
• Believe in our mission and impact.
• Honesty, integrity and commitment to fighting hunger in Southwest Florida
• Ability to relate effectively to other staff, volunteers, agency representatives and the public.
• Ability to complete work in an accurate, effective, and timely manner.
• Valid FL Driver’s License
Medical: HCFB currently offers five plan options with United Healthcare. Employee portion is paid by the food bank.
Health Savings Account (HSA): f enrolled in the High Deductible Health Plan option and HCFB will contribute $1500.00 annually to be used toward eligible medical expenses into an HSA. Employees are also able to contribute pre-tax dollars above HCFB’s contribution amount toward their HSA.
Flexible Spending Account (FSA): Medical FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and Limited FSA are available,
Group Life Insurance: $50,000 company paid group life for all full-time employees
Voluntary Life Insurance: Additional Life and AD&D coverage may be purchased at the employee’s cost. Coverage is available for spouse and dependents. Rates are age dependent. Evidence of Insurability may be required.
Short Term Liability Insurance: Voluntary coverage, paid by the employee. Disability benefits provide partial income replacement for 13 weeks while unable to work due to illness or injury as certified by a physician.
Long Term Liability Insurance: Coverage is fully paid by HCFB. Disability benefits provide partial income replacement for 3 months or longer, while unable to work due to illness or injury as certified by a physician.
Voluntary Accident, Hospital Indemnity, and Critical Illness Plan: Insurance plans offered by MetLife to complement medical coverage and provide lump sum payments for covered incidents and illness.
Legal Services HCFB voluntary Legal Plan provides a variety of fully covered legal services to employees and their families.
401(k) Plan: Employees may contribute 1% to 75% of gross salary up to the annual IRS maximum. Both pre-tax and Roth plans are available. HCFB does match up to 4% of employee contribution.
Tuition Reimbursement Plan: Reimbursement for degree programs of up to $5,000 annually. A waiting period of 12 months applies.
Paid Time Off (PTO): Vacation accruals of up to 20 days per year are based on tenure at the HCFB.
Holidays: HCFB observes 11 holidays throughout the year.
Pet Reimbursement Plan for routine and preventive care. There are three plans to choose from, with a different value for each plan. Once enrolled, you simply submit a p hoot of your bill and you’ll be reimbursed within 24 hours.
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Harry Chapin Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief nonprofit and the only Feeding America member in Southwest Florida, serving Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee counties.
We rescue and distribute donated food and other grocery products through our food distribution programs, feeding more than a quarter of a million people who are hungry each month!
Harry Chapin Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief nonprofit and the only Feeding America member in Southwest Florida, serving Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee counties.
We rescue and distribute donated food and other grocery products through our food distribution programs, feeding more than a quarter of a million people who are hungry each month!
Harry Chapin Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief nonprofit and the only Feeding America member in Southwest Florida, serving Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee counties.
We rescue and distribute donated food and other grocery products through our food distribution programs, feeding more than a quarter of a million people who are hungry each month!
Harry Chapin Food Bank is the largest hunger-relief nonprofit and the only Feeding America member in Southwest Florida, serving Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee counties.
We rescue and distribute donated food and other grocery products through our food distribution programs, feeding more than a quarter of a million people who are hungry each month!
History
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida opened its doors as the Lee County Food Cooperative in 1983. When it began, the cooperative distributed government-provided surpluses of cheese and other dairy products. Almost immediately, the cooperative began recovering other food from retailers and growers and continued to grow. In 1985, the cooperative changed its name to the Southwest Florida Food Bank to reflect its regional service area. In 1990, the food bank became a member of Feeding America. In 1994, our name changed to Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida. Our mission is to lead our community in the fight to end hunger.
Harry Chapin Food Bank feeds more than a quarter of a million people each month through our food distribution programs listed below.
Feeding Children:Harry’s Helpings
Harry’s Helpings is an innovative feeding program that provides supplemental food kits for families at childcare, early childhood education, and after-school programming centers where traditional food pantry distribution models are not feasible due to space constraints, lack of adequate staffing or other barriers.
Harry’s Helpings also offers assistance to the community at community and service centers, special one-time events, and other non-traditional feeding programs. Harry’s Helpings kits are filled with enough nutritious, shelf-stable food for up to 15 meals for a family of four. They may include canned vegetables and canned meat, cereal, dry pastas, boxed macaroni and cheese, soups and stews, peanut butter, jelly, rice and beans.
In addition, Harry’s Helpings can be supplemented with fresh and frozen items in coordination with partner sites and when available.
Feeding Families:
Feeding families is the core of our mission and represents most of our total food distribution throughout our five-county footprint. Our strategic approach involves navigating the fact that sixty percent of our five-county footprint is a food desert. Our strategies incorporate food safety protocols, innovative food procurement methods and an enormous amount of passion that no one should have to go hungry.
Our Fulfill Mobile Pantry Program directly serves our neighbors who are hungry where people with limited financial resources and transportation may not be able to access food through traditional grocery stores.
Through our Fulfill Mobile Pantries, a truckload of food is transported and distributed in areas of high need to supplement our other hunger-relief programs in our five-county footprint.
Two distribution methods are utilized: a farmer’s market-style distribution where those who are food-insecure can choose to take what they need or a drive-thru distribution model, where families receive a pre-packaged food kit filled with shelf-stable foods that is supplemented with fresh produce and frozen protein when it is available.
Our mobile pantries distribute fresh produce, canned and dry goods, frozen meat, bread, grains, and other food items.
Our Agency Partner Program, a multi-faceted food distribution program, helps feed children, families, seniors and our neighbors who are hungry in Southwest Florida. Our Agency Partners, strategically located in areas of high need throughout our five-county footprint, help identify and serve our neighbors where they live.
Our vetted Agency Partners include social service agencies, faith-based congregations, nonprofits, and community organizations. As trusted extensions of our mission, we provide our Agency Partners with more than 70% of their food inventory.
Various food procurement strategies allow us to provide our Agency Partners with our shelf-stable fruits, vegetables, proteins, grains and milk as well as fresh produce and other perishable foods.
Our “Fresh Force” Mobile Grocery Experience directly serves those who are food insecure in areas of high need. The mobile market is a one-aisle grocery store, designed to provide healthy, fresh food through a dignified “shopping” experience for families and individuals in need.
Senior hunger is a hidden issue in Southwest Florida.
Many seniors on fixed incomes have to make the difficult choice whether to purchase food or buy medicine. Seniors who do not get the nutrition they need are at a higher risk of developing health problems such as diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.
Care and Share Senior Feeding Program
The Care and Share Senior Feeding Program supplements the diets of more than 2,200 seniors with low income in Charlotte, Collier and Lee counties with nutritious, easy-to-prepare food.
Eligible seniors aged 55 and over receive kits containing pre-packaged food kits that contain easy-to-prepare meals and shelf-stable fruits, vegetables, proteins, cheeses, and grains. When possible, we supplement the food kits with fresh produce and frozen meat.
Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP)
The Commodity Supplemental Food Program (CSFP) is a federal government program that provides nutritious food to eligible seniors 60 years of age or older with low-incomes. Food boxes are distributed once a month at designated sites in Glades and Hendry counties.
Our mobile market consists of several different items such as fresh produce, canned and dry goods, frozen meat, bread, grains, dairy, and other food items. Through our “Fresh Force” Mobile Grocery Experience, Harry Chapin Food Bank transports healthy foods to our neighbors at no cost who live in designated “food deserts” and low-income areas. We are able to eliminate transportation as a barrier to accessing food by bringing the mobile market directly to families who are hungry.
Our mission: To lead our community inf the fight to end hungers.
Our vision: That no one has to go hungry in our community.