The Development Director leads Open Door’s fundraising and donor engagement work, with a strong focus on building and sustaining relationships with major donors, community partners, churches, businesses, and foundations. This role is responsible for helping grow philanthropic support, strengthening donor strategy, and ensuring development efforts are aligned with Open Door’s mission and organizational priorities.
This is a Director-level position that supervises the Community Engagement Coordinator and works closely with executive leadership, the board, finance, and program leaders. The Development Director will lead day-to-day development efforts while helping carry forward broader fundraising strategy and donor engagement across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
Donor Cultivation and Stewardship: Build, manage, and nurture relationships with individual donors, major gift prospects, foundations, churches, businesses, and community stakeholders to support long-term engagement and giving.
Major Giving: Manage a portfolio of current and prospective high-level donors, including donor meetings, cultivation plans, solicitations, stewardship, and follow-up.
Development Strategy: Develop and execute fundraising strategies in collaboration with executive leadership, including individual giving, corporate and foundation partnerships, planned giving, annual campaigns, donor retention, and the capital campaign.
Fundraising Events: Lead the planning and execution of large-scale fundraising events, sponsorship opportunities, donor gatherings, and event-related follow-up that strengthen donor relationships and generate support for Open Door’s mission.
Development Team Leadership: Lead the Community Engagement Coordinator in connecting volunteer involvement, tours, events, community partnerships, and public engagement with appropriate donor cultivation opportunities.
Reporting and Accountability: Track donor interactions, next steps, gifts, pledges, and fundraising activity in the donor database to support accurate reporting and alignment with organizational goals.
Organizational Collaboration: Work closely with executive leadership, finance, board members, and volunteers to support fundraising goals and strengthen development efforts.
The Ideal Candidate
Aligned with Our Mission: A faith-driven leader who embodies Open Door’s core values of faith, community, compassion, empowerment, and transformation.
A Relationship Builder: Skilled at building trust, forming meaningful connections, and maintaining long-term donor and partner relationships.
An Inspirational Storyteller: A strong communicator who can connect with diverse audiences, from individuals experiencing homelessness to business leaders, church congregations, and major donors.
Collaborative and Aligned: Able to translate executive direction into clear development priorities, coordinate across departments, support managers and team members, identify problems early, and keep development efforts aligned with the whole organization. Combines good judgment with momentum to help people move together.
Prepared for Development Work: Someone with experience building relationships, communicating clearly, and moving people toward shared goals. This may come from fundraising, sales, public speaking, nonprofit work, ministry, community engagement, business development, or another relationship-centered field.
Strategic and Organized: Able to manage a donor portfolio, track follow-up, prioritize opportunities, and contribute to a growing development strategy.
Technically Proficient: Familiar with CRM or donor management software and committed to accurate donor records and reporting.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, or equivalent professional experience in a relationship-centered field.
- Experience building trust, managing relationships, and moving people toward shared goals through fundraising, sales, ministry, public speaking, nonprofit work, community engagement, business development, or a related field.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to connect with donors, partners, churches, businesses, community stakeholders, and internal teams.
- Good judgment, follow-through, and organizational skills, including the ability to translate direction into clear priorities and coordinate work across departments.
- Collaborative and proactive, with the ability to support team alignment, identify problems early, and work well in a dynamic environment.
- Experience with donor cultivation, fundraising events, sponsorships, major gifts, community partnerships, or CRM/donor management software preferred.
- Deep alignment with Open Door’s core values of Faith, Community, Compassion, Empowerment, and Transformation.
This position is based at Open Door’s administrative office in Lubbock, TX, but it is not a desk-bound role. The Development Director will spend significant time in the community meeting with current and prospective donors, building relationships, and representing Open Door at events and speaking engagements. Frequent local travel throughout Lubbock and occasional travel in the surrounding area may be required. Flexibility for occasional remote work is available when appropriate.
This is a full-time, salaried position offering competitive compensation and benefits. Open Door is committed to attracting a gifted development professional who is deeply aligned with the mission and ready to help grow the organization’s fundraising capacity.
Next Steps
To apply, please email the following materials to careers@opendoorlbk.org:
- Resume
- LinkedIn profile link
- Brief responses to the questions below, with each response limited to 150 words or fewer:
- Why are you interested in this role at Open Door, and what has prompted you to pursue a change in employment?
- What has helped you build strong relationships with donors, clients, customers, or community partners in your current or past roles?
- What excites you about asking people to invest in meaningful work? Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
