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Director of Development
Job Description
Your job will be to secure financial support for Neighborhood Hands by engaging corporations, individuals, local governments, foundations, volunteer groups, and hosting occasional events. Working part-time to start and possibly moving to full-time in the coming 12 - 18 months (if you are successful), you will be a close collaborator with our Executive Director, Founder, and members of our Board of Directors, while retaining significant autonomy to creatively drive Neighborhood Hands’ fundraising efforts moving forward.
How to Apply: Interested candidates should submit a resume, references, and a brief communication on why you are interested in this opportunity to info@neighborhoodhands.org by October 4. Please include “Development Director Application” in the subject line. Regarding your communication, this can be delivered in the form of a cover letter, self-produced video, or any other method you feel will help us best understand you as a candidate.
Neighborhood Hands is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from individuals of all backgrounds.
About the Org
Our mission: We connect unhoused people with the neighborhood through dignified, no-barrier-to-entry opportunities for positive social connection and support while beautifying public spaces.
How we do this: Through a community-based “party-in-the-park” homeless work and outreach program every other Saturday with 240+ unhoused and housed volunteers at Guadalupe Gardens and River Park in San Jose.
Who’s involved: A wide range of community partners across the public, private, and nonprofit sector, hundreds of unhoused and housed volunteers, and a very hard-working Neighborhood Hands Board of Directors and Executive Director.
How we started and where we are today: Since launching our pilot program in March 2020, we’ve grown from $55K in revenue and ~60 unhoused and housed volunteers per program in our first year to $640K in revenue in FY2023 and 240+ unhoused and housed volunteers per program today. Learn more at https://www.neighborhoodhands.org.
