Leadership Giving Director

Calling all Dreamers, Leaders, Social Innovators, Change-Seekers!!

United Way is a community-based social change organization that puts opportunity in the hands of all North Texans in Collin, Dallas, southern Denton, and Rockwall Counties. United Way partners with hundreds of corporations, philanthropic organizations, educational institutions, nonprofit service providers, city and state government entities and representatives, advocates, and community leaders to improve education, income, and health – the building blocks of opportunity. United Way leverages our resources and networks to bring the best people, ideas, and projects together to create lasting change. Together, we believe we can build a future in which all North Texans, regardless of zip code, have the opportunity and access to achieve their full potential.

The Position

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Leadership Giving, this role is a key contributor to United Way of Metropolitan Dallas’ Resource Development Department. The Leadership Giving Director partners with the Leadership Giving Program Management, Workplace, and Major Gifts teams to grow leadership societies and increase revenue. Through strategic relationship management, the director cultivates and stewards donors through individual outreach, leadership society initiatives, and volunteer engagement events.

To perform the job successfully, competitive applicants should demonstrate the following:

• Mission-Focused: Create real social change that leads to improving lives in our community.
• Relationship-Oriented: Communicate effectively to develop, grow and sustain productive relationships. Know how to capture, record, and interpret relevant information to forge partnerships, collaborate, cultivate, grow, sustain, and strengthen relationships.
• Results-Driven: Dedicated to shared and measurable goals; creating, resourcing, scaling, and leveraging strategies and innovations for broad impact.
• Stewardship: Must be transparent and meet the highest ethical standards on behalf of donors and align with organizational goals.
• Value a Culture of Collaboration, Inclusion, and Engagement: Committed to participating in cross-functional organization activities that contribute to UWMD’s goal of building and sustaining a high-performance organization and advancing a culture of collaboration and inclusiveness across the organization.