Company description

Concrete Jungle (CJ) forages, farms, and supports food access across Georgia. To achieve that mission, our team harvests and distributes excess produce from fruit trees and farms, grows food from our own farm, and provides nutrition education resources. We envision a future where all communities are well nourished in a world with no food waste. As of December 2023, Concrete Jungle has distributed over 2 million pounds of fresh, nutritious food. Click here for a summary of CJ’s main programs.

In the past 14 years we have grown from a grassroots, volunteer-led initiative into a small but impactful nonprofit. As a 501(c)3 organization, we engage in fundraising and donor cultivation to financially support the work that we do. Concrete Jungle has a diverse funding stream, receiving contributions from foundation and corporate grants, government awards, individual donors, and earned income activities. CJ has recently experienced exponential growth, as evidenced by our annual budget which has grown from $135,000 in 2019 to just over $1 million in 2024.

Job description

Concrete Jungle is seeking highly skilled and diverse candidates for our full time Development Manager role,
dedicated to achieving annual fundraising goals through successful acquisition and growth of grant funding,
corporate donations, and individual giving. For this role, we need someone who is passionate about the fine
details of day-to-day development functions; ruthlessly committed to managing deadlines; and enjoys the
strategy required to build donor relationships.

In this role you will be responsible for managing a wide variety of daily development activities, from coordinating
donor relations and grant management, to the administrative components of CJ’s fundraising work. You will
serve as the project manager for our development efforts, working behind the scenes to ensure timely execution
of all activities necessary for engaging our network of funders. While you will occasionally write funding requests
and engage directly with funders, we’ll look to you to create and implement systems and processes to make the
development machine operate more efficiently.

This is a critical and fulfilling role - one where you will play a key part in securing the support needed for CJ to
execute and expand our mission work. You will work closely and collaboratively with our Executive Director and
be supported by our Board Development Committee, Development interns, and a Development consultant. As
Concrete Jungle continues to grow our impact across the state, this position will have opportunities for growth.

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Compensation

this position is: salaried, $50,000 - $75,000

Location

job can be done remotely

Application instructions

Deadline

April 05, 2024