About Hand, Heart, and Soul Project 

The Hand, Heart, and Soul Project (HHSP) believes that an inclusive, and equity-centered movement is essential to achieving our goals for just communities. 

About Us: HHSP promotes healthy habits for our earliest learners in Clayton County. We provide children and families access to nutrient-dense foods and we develop holistic programs focused on health, wellness, education, and nutrition. We focus on the following strategic priorities: 

• Leadership Development: Work to organize and amplify the voices of parents of young children and the early childhood provider community so that their needs are truly reflected in policies impacting early childhood education and health. 
• Policy and Advocacy: Engage in advocacy efforts to influence local, state, and federal policies that impact food and early care and education systems. 
• Best Practices: Share best practices for Farm to Early Care and Education (ECE) implementation, including those that impact child development, nutrition, and social-emotional development of young children. 
• Wellness: Promote health and wellness initiatives throughout the community

Position Summary: HHSP is a growing non-profit seeking our first Development and Operations Manager. This is a part-time role with the potential for a contract extension and/or expansion to a full-time position. This position is currently funded for up to 20 hours per week for six months with anticipation of additional funding to support the position in 2023.

Responsibilities and Duties:

The Development and Operations Manager will be a key organizational leader in building HHSP’s internal processes and expanding services. The Development and Operations Manager will hold primary responsibility for fundraising and revenue activities, including managing progress toward short- and long-term revenue goals. The manager will seek out revenue through foundation support, federal and state grants, fee for service, professional development, special events, and partnership support.

With the support of the Executive Director, the Development and Operations Manager helps forge new relationships and reinforce existing relationships to build visibility, deepen impact, and grow financial resources. This includes aligning development activities with other efforts aimed at elevating the profile and influencing HHSP as thought leaders. The successful candidate will therefore be highly motivated by the organization’s mission to embed equity into health, early education, policy, and investments. The ideal candidate will be able to advise on courses of action that improve our impact while positioning HHSP for continued contribution.

This position reports to the Executive Director.

Responsibilities and Duties: 

• Create and maintain an annual operating budget, forecast expenses, and monitor actual vs. budgeted expenses.
• Manage the organization’s grant portfolio, including writing grants, creating reports, and managing all administrative deadlines.
• Support the Executive Director in building and maintaining relationships with current and prospective funders and individual donors.
• Communicate to the program team on grant requirements, budgets, and data collection needs.
• Support the development activities of board members and staff leadership, as requested, by advising on funder engagement strategies, facilitating outreach, preparing briefings, recommending talking points, designing funder meeting agendas and content, and ensuring follow-through.
• Create and implement annual giving campaigns.
• Solicit sponsorships for events and programs.
• Work with the accounting team in QuickBooks and DEXT, including categorizing all invoices and expenses.
• Guide and support data collection across programs and train staff on maintaining accurate data records.
• Manage the organization’s overall impact evaluation and coordinate with the evaluation consultant. 
• Engage with the development and leadership teams by attending staff meetings, serving on special task forces, and contributing to the ongoing evolution and implementation of strategy and overall mission.
• Create and streamline organizational processes to support workflow for the Executive Director and the programs team.
• Other related duties as assigned.

 Qualifications and Experience:

• Three or more years of development and/or fundraising experience in the non-profit sector. Experience with public or private sector development is a plus.
• A proven track record of successful philanthropic fundraising. 
• Applied knowledge of fundraising strategies and donor relationship management with foundations, individuals, corporations, and other sources.
• Detail-oriented, with strong organizational abilities to meet deadlines across multiple parallel activities.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral; ability to engage and influence a wide range of donors and build long-term relationships by articulating a clear value proposition and progress toward desired impacts.
• Collaborative, flexible, team-oriented individual with strong interpersonal skills.
• A creative strategic thinker with a passion for managing the implementation of both strategic and tactical initiatives.
• Experience working in early education, farm-to-school, agriculture, policy, and/or equity-related fields is strongly desired.
• Experience working with local governments.
• A commitment to the mission and vision of HHSP.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, ability and willingness to travel frequently to sites and meetings within Clayton County and the metro Atlanta area. 

Position Details:

• Compensation: $40/hr
• Part-time hourly, up to 20 hours per week, for 6 months, with the possibility of extension, and the possibility of full time.
• Reports to the Executive Director.
• Flexible leave policy and 401(k) program available to all part-time team members.
• Dedicated self-care and wellness days are available to part-time team members.  
• Location: This is a hybrid remote/in-person with 50% of the time on-site/in-person and 50% remote with flexibility. Must be present for team meeting days at HHSP’s office in Jonesboro and Atlanta.