Development Director

**Development Director** * **Full\-time**: 40 hours per week, partly remote and on\-site. Exempt position. * **Schedule**: General working hours are Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend hours will be required for events and other work\-related activities. * **Compensation**: $85,000\-$95,000 pre\-tax annual salary, based on experience. * **Benefits**: Full medical, dental, and vision coverage. * **Vacation**: 14 annual holidays and accrued vacation starting at 19 days per year. * **Sick Days**: 10 hours accrued per month, up to 120 hours per year. * **Reports to**: Executive Director. **About La Peña Cultural Center** La Peña Cultural Center is a 501(c)(3\) nonprofit organization located in Huichin, the unceded land of the Ohlone people, in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1975 and rooted in the Latin American and Caribbean diaspora, La Peña has supported social justice, resilience\-building, cultural expression, and creative production across U.S.\-based diasporas and solidarity movements worldwide. Its programming includes concerts, roots arts classes, film screenings, panel discussions, community fundraisers, political strategy meetings, and other forms of cultural and civic engagement. Please visit for more information. **Position Overview** The Development Director leads La Peña’s fundraising strategy and development program, with primary responsibility for institutional giving and oversight of individual giving. Working closely with the Executive Director, Programming Director, Individual Giving Manager, and other staff, the Development Director will develop and implement strategies to sustain and grow La Peña’s contributed revenue, strengthen relationships with institutional funders and donors, and build a healthy and diversified fundraising pipeline. The Development Director will serve as a strategic thought partner to organizational leadership, connecting fundraising priorities to La Peña’s annual budget, programs, long\-term strategy, and evolving case for support. The position requires a strong combination of fundraising strategy, relationship building, grant writing, project management, financial fluency, communications, and organizational leadership. The ideal candidate is an experienced development professional who can move comfortably between high\-level strategy and implementation: cultivating funders, identifying new opportunities, managing a complex institutional portfolio, developing compelling proposals and communications, supervising development staff, and building systems that support long\-term fundraising success. **Areas of Responsibility** **1\. Development Strategy and Portfolio Management: 25%** * Develop and implement La Peña’s annual and multi\-year fundraising strategy in collaboration with the Executive Director. * Establish annual institutional giving goals informed by La Peña’s organizational budget, existing funding commitments, renewal opportunities, prospect pipeline, and long\-term