Vice President of Community and Development chez Women Donors Network

Description

Women Donors Network (WDN) and its 501c4 affiliate, WDN Action (WDNA), is hiring a passionate, strategic, and relationship-centered Vice President of Community and Development to lead our fundraising strategy, membership experience, and Community & Development Team. This full-time, remote senior leadership role reports directly to the President & CEO and plays a critical role in scaling our organization and shaping the future of our growing, multiracial, multigenerational donor community.

ABOUT US

Women Donors Network (WDN) is a national network of women donors (cis and trans), nonbinary, and gender-expansive individuals committed to protecting and advancing gender, racial, economic, and climate justice. As a growing multiracial and multigenerational community of donor organizers, we connect, grow, fund, and mobilize together in solidarity with movements to transform people, culture, and systems rooted in justice. Through WDN Action, our c4 affiliate organization, we work to transform policies, political infrastructure, and political possibilities by investing in advocacy and electoral strategies that center the leadership of historically excluded communities. Together, we envision a just and sustainable world where everyone can safely and freely determine their own futures. 

This is an exciting time at WDN and WDN Action as we move into the third year of our bold strategic plan. We have a growing team passionate about social justice and motivated to scale our impact. Our values are rooted in a culture of courage, commitment, curiosity, accountability, hope, and joy. You can read more about our path forward here.

We are a geographically distributed, remote team of 27 from diverse intersectional identities, including cisgender, BIPOC, and nonbinary people. We have a shared staffing structure across WDN and WDN Action, with our team dedicating a portion of time to each entity. We believe that a diverse team is integral to our work and strongly encourage applications from people of color, people with disabilities, women, LGBTQIA+, and all other applicants from historically excluded identities in the United States.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Vice President of Community and Development is a senior leader responsible for driving WDN and WDN Action’s fundraising strategy, vision for membership growth (individual and institutional), donor stewardship, and community-building. This role requires a leader who is both a bold strategic fundraiser and a deeply relational donor steward who easily builds trust, understands donor psychology, and inspires transformational giving rooted in justice.

The Vice President will lead the full membership lifecycle; cultivate and retain a multiracial, multigenerational community of donor-activists; lead a high-performing team; and serve as a trusted partner to the President & CEO and Management Team. The ideal candidate has a strong track record in major gifts, donor organizing, member engagement, revenue growth, and cross-functional leadership. They are emotionally intelligent, movement-aligned, and energized by building a culture of bold, relational fundraising.

This remote role requires regular travel across the United States for meetings, member visits, team retreats and organizational events. Candidates must be able to work weekday hours across US time zones, be available to work a flexible schedule due to the emergent, rapid-response nature of our work, and have previously demonstrated success and comfort with remote work. We are open to individual candidates (no agencies) who are based in the United States and who have at least 10+ years of nonprofit fundraising experience.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

As WDN and WDN Action continues to implement our strategic plan, the Vice President of Community and Development will manage a team of four while playing a critical role in leading the design, strategy, and implementation of the following functions:

FUNDRAISING & DEVELOPMENT 

• Lead a comprehensive fundraising strategy with annual giving, multi-year pledges, major gifts, legacy giving, rapid response, and collaborative funding partnerships in alignment with WDN/A’s financial model and long-term revenue goals. 
• Cultivate, solicit, steward, and personally close major gifts (including six and seven figure commitments), maintaining a personal portfolio of members.
• Build and sustain a bold, joyful, relational fundraising culture that frames fundraising as mission-aligned work  and strengthens confidence across staff, our Boards, and members.
• Develop and implement moves-management systems that deepen donor relationships, strengthen retention, and support meaningful, personalized stewardship for individual and institutional members.
• Lead WDN/A’s member community growth strategy with strategic efforts to double our growth of individual and institutional members.
• Serve as primary staff lead on our two Boards’ Fundraising Committees, which often meet jointly, and provide leadership, guidance, and tools to help board members successfully meet their fundraising goals.
• Provide strategic fundraising partnership to incubated initiatives (one of our grantmaking vehicles), ensuring they are effectively positioned for donor engagement within WDN/A’s broader revenue strategy.
• Collaborate closely with the Communications Team to shape, maintain, and update donor and member-facing materials and other fundraising tools.
• Partner cross-functionally with other stakeholder teams (Communications, Learning & Impact, Politics & Advocacy, and Finance) to ensure aligned messaging, narrative cohesion, and coordinated donor engagement.

MEMBERSHIP EXPERIENCE 

• Lead WDN/A’s membership strategy, across the membership lifecycle (recruitment, onboarding, renewal, stewardship, and offboarding) for both individual and institutional members, ensuring a seamless and compelling membership experience.
• Partner with the Learning & Impact Team to cultivate a membership culture rooted in belonging, growth, accountability, and principled solidarity.
• Develop and refine strategies to source, attract, and steward new values-aligned members to WDN/A.
• Strengthen programs, gatherings, and engagement opportunities that support members’ political, personal, and philanthropic journeys.
• Design and analyze the annual membership survey (with operational management by a Manager), ensuring insights drive membership strategy and alignment across the organization.
• Strengthen regional engagement and activation through regional gatherings, leadership pathways, and community structures that deepen connection and action.
• Serve as primary staff lead to the Boards’ Member Engagement Committee, supporting member activation and governance alignment.

• Leverage power mapping (data and relationship insights) to understand member interests, capacities, and expertise, connecting them to meaningful opportunities to lead, give, and mobilize through WDN/A. 
• Collaborate with WDN Action and cross-functional partners to support mobilization efforts, donor activation, and regional organizing.
• Partner with other team leaders to ensure alignment across member engagement, development, and programmatic initiatives across WDN/A.

TEAM LEADERSHIP

• Lead, coach, and manage a Community & Development team of four, providing strategic vision, clarity, accountability, and coaching.
• Foster an inclusive, relational, values-driven team culture grounded in communication, collaboration, and excellence in shared outcomes.
• Partner with the President & CEO and Management Team on organizational planning, budgeting, fundraising strategy, membership strategy, and cross-functional execution.
• Model courageous communication, transparent decision-making, and solutions-oriented leadership.

Requirements

As the Vice President of Community and Development at WDN/A, you must have:

• 10+ years of nonprofit fundraising experience with organizations of a comparable size.
• Deep expertise in major gifts and donor acquisition and retention strategies, with demonstrated success leading successful fundraising campaigns that inspire generosity.
• Commitment to WDN’s mission and values, and experience in at least two of WDN’s funding priorities.
• Proven track record successfully cultivating, soliciting, and closing multi-tier donors, including six and seven figure gifts.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to speak plainly, directly, and with emotional intelligence across multiracial, multigenerational audiences and donor communities.
• Proficiency with fundraising CRMs (Salesforce is preferred), as well as, Google Workspace, Zoom, Slack, and MacOS.
• Experience in social-justice-aligned 501(c)(3)/501(c)(4) organizations and/or membership networks is strongly preferred.

CANDIDATE CHARACTERISTICS

The ideal candidate is:

• A charismatic, relational leader who loves connecting with donors and building long-term relationships.
• A bold fundraiser who brings clarity, confidence, and creativity to the art of asking.
• A strategic thinker with the capacity to hold ambiguity and complexity, while leveraging a growth mindset, outstanding judgement skills and a solutions orientation in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• An emotionally intelligent communicator capable of navigating nuanced conversations around power, privilege, identity, and justice.
• A skilled coach and people manager who fosters excellence, accountability, and growth.
• Deeply committed to equity, justice, and building a powerful multiracial, multigenerational donor community.

CANDIDACY PROCESS AND TIMELINE

To be considered for the Vice President of Community and Development role, please submit an application, resume, and cover letter through the WDN Careers Page no later than Friday, January 9, 2026. 

To protect the integrity of our structured candidacy process, we kindly ask that all applicants do not call, email or message our office or any member of the WDN Team or Board of Directors about the Vice President of Community and Development role. 

Benefits

The base salary for the Vice President of Community and Development starts at $220K/year. This role is also eligible to receive WDN's Employee Benefits Package which is inclusive of:

• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance (paid by WDN at 100% for employees and 80% for dependents)
• 401K Contribution (4% of your gross pay contributed by WDN and an additional 3% match of your gross pay)
• 20 Vacation Days, 14 Sick Days and 14 Company Holidays
• Partial Reimbursement of Your Internet and Phone Expenses for your home office
• Financial Support for Learning and Professional Development Opportunities

WDN is an equal opportunity employer that values a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture. WDN encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status. WDN does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, country of origin, citizenship, ancestry, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, political affiliation, exercising one’s right to family care and medical leave, medical condition, including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and related medical conditions, or any other category protected by local, state, or federal laws. WDN is not offering US visa sponsorship at this time.

Upon request, WDN offers accommodations for candidates with disabilities during the application, interview, and hiring process, such as additional time on hiring exercises, interview questions in advance, or closed captioning on Zoom.