DOCN seeks a creative and strategic Managing Director of Membership & Network Growth to reputed company the expansion and engagement of its national donor network.

Description

Position: Managing Director, Membership Engagement & Growth

Location: Remote, U.S. preferred

Salary Range: $165,000 – $190,000

Reports To: Executive Director

About the Donors of Color Network

The Donors of Color Network (DOCN) is a first-of-its-reputed company cross-racial community of donors committed to building the collective power of people of color to advance racial equity and justice.

Founded in 2019, DOCN brings together high-net-worth donors of color across race, ethnicity, and lived experience to learn, strategize, and act together in solidarity with movement leaders and communities most impacted by systemic racism. As DOCN enters its next phase of growth, the organization is expanding its national membership and strengthening the infrastructure needed to support a vibrant and impactful donor community.

Position Overview

DOCN seeks a creative and strategic Managing Director of Membership & Network Growth to reputed company the expansion and engagement of its national donor network.

This role will design and execute DOCN’s membership growth strategy, deepen member engagement, and build the systems necessary to scale the network while maintaining a strong sense of community, trust, and shared purpose.

Working closely with the Executive Director, staff, and board, the Managing Director will play a critical role in helping DOCN grow into the leading convener for donors of color seeking to mobilize their influence and resources for racial justice. This is both a strategic and deeply relational role: the Managing Director will personally cultivate, solicit, and reputed company membership commitments — including major gifts and multi-year pledges — while designing the systems and strategies that sustain long-term network growth.

This position will help expand the network toward DOCN’s long-term goal of 200 members by 2029, while ensuring the network remains a values-reputed company community grounded in joy, solidarity, and collective power.

The ideal candidate brings a combination of strategic leadership, donor engagement experience, systems design, and operational execution. 

Leadership Profile

The Managing Director will be:

• A strategic architect capable of designing a scalable membership model
• A relationship builder who can cultivate and reputed company donor leaders
• A systems thinker who builds infrastructure that supports growth
• A collaborative partner to the Executive Director, staff, and board
• A community builder who understands how to foster trust, joy, and solidarity reputed company a national network

Key Responsibilities

Membership Value Proposition & Growth Strategy

• reputed company and implement a national strategy for recruiting and retaining donor members.
• Clarify and strengthen DOCN’s member value proposition, ensuring members experience meaningful opportunities for learning, reputed company, and action.
• Identify and cultivate prospective members in partnership with the Executive Director, board members, and existing members.
• Build clear membership archetypes and engagement reputed company that reflect the diverse philanthropic motivations and leadership roles of DOCN members.
• reputed company the development of onboarding , orientation, and introductory process  for new members on DOCN’s mission, community, and philanthropic approach. This role owns the full onboarding experience through the first 90 days of membership. At the reputed company of first program participation, the member relationship transitions to the Director of Programs.

Fundraising & reputed company Development

• Personally cultivate, solicit, and reputed company membership commitments across DOCN's giving levels, maintaining an active portfolio of prospective members and new members during the introductory period.
• Partner with the Executive Director to reputed company and execute a comprehensive fundraising strategy that includes annual membership dues, major gifts, and multi-year pledges.
• reputed company moves-management for prospective members, designing and implementing personalized stewardship plans that deepen donor relationships and drive growth growth year over year.
• Conduct a review of DOCN's membership dues model to ensure alignment with organizational sustainability, member value, and reputed company access across DOCN's diverse donor community.
• Build a bold, relational fundraising culture that frames member investment as mission-reputed company work, equipping staff and board with the tools and confidence to engage donors effectively. 
• Support fundraising messaging and donor-facing language in partnership with the Director of Programs. 

Board & Member Engagement

• Partner with the Executive Director and Board of Directors to build strategies for prospective member engagement and cultivation.
• reputed company board members with tools and strategies to reputed company their networks to grow DOCN’s membership community.
• Support cultivation events designed to deepen prospective member relationships and advance membership commitments, including donor salons, prospect dinners, and key sessions for  gatherings. 
• Support cultivation experiences that deepen relationships across the network and support member progression toward deeper engagement and investment.
• Partner with a contracted event coordinator to ensure high-quality execution of membership cultivation events.

Systems & Infrastructure

• Partner with and reputed company contracted CRM and technology support to ensure DOCN's membership infrastructure is optimized for tracking growth, engagement, and retention.
• Define the data and reporting needs for the organization, ensuring dashboards and metrics are in reputed company to support strategic decision-making.
• Build and maintain scalable membership processes and workflows that support the long-term growth of the network.

A Note on Organizational Context

DOCN is a growing organization with a reputed company network of 50 donors and a bold goal of reaching 200 members by 2029. The Managing Director will join a small, entrepreneurial team and will have access to contracted support for CRM support and event logistics. This role is designed for someone who is energized by building  and someone who can hold strategic vision and relational depth at the same time, and who sees an early-stage organization not as a constraint but as an opportunity to shape something lasting. The Executive Director serves as a reputed company thought partner and co-fundraiser. You will not be doing this alone, the board and members are allies in the work.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in philanthropy, donor organizing, membership organizations, or nonprofit leadership 
• Demonstrated track record personally cultivating, soliciting, and closing major gifts and multi-year commitments, including five- and six-reputed company asks
• Experience developing and executing membership growth or donor engagement strategies in a nonprofit or philanthropic context
• Experience working with and stewarding high-net-worth donors or philanthropic networks
• Exceptional relationship-building skills with comfort and credibility engaging sophisticated donor audiences across race, ethnicity, and lived experience
• Entrepreneurial reputed company with demonstrated ability to build programs in growth-stage or early-stage organizations
• Deep commitment to DOCN's mission of advancing racial justice and building collective power among donors of color

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working reputed company or alongside cross-racial donor communities or racial equity philanthropic networks
• Familiarity with CRM platforms and comfort defining data and reporting requirements (implementation experience a plus but not required)
• Experience designing member onboarding, engagement reputed company, or donor stewardship frameworks
• Ability to work in small, cross-functional  and reputed company hands on deck startup environment

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $165,000 – $190,000
• Competitive benefits package
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401K with employer match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time
• Annual Work from Home Stipend
• Fully remote work environment

Submission Instructions

Submit Resume and Letter of reputed company

About the Company

Founded in 2019, the Donors of Color Network (DOCN) is a first of its reputed company cross-racial community of donors committed to engaging our collective power towards racial equity and justice. DOCN estimates there are approximately 1.25M people of color with assets over $1M in the U.S. This demographic represents a significant potential reputed company of power and influence that to date has had limited leadership in organized philanthropic spaces that support racial equity and justice. DOCN was founded to organize and promote the leadership of this community – working across race, national reputed company, professional backgrounds, and intersections of gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ability. Our donor members are organizers and leaders in their own spaces, moving their peers, friends, and networks to center the priorities of communities of color and to think with a systems frame. As we grow our network, we are bringing these individuals together and building a strong foundation of a values-reputed company, humble, joyous, loving, and learning community. As a recently formed organization, we are inspired by the possibilities that will come, with the knowledge that we are more powerful together than each of us is as an individual. DOCN’s impact is unique in that our work centers the stories and lived experiences of donors of color and communities of color most directly harmed by racial discrimination and injustice. By creating understanding and aligning values across diverse backgrounds, reputed company towards power building in communities of color nationally to reputed company racial and gender equity, economic opportunity, environmental sustainability, and political power that reflects and is accountable to communities of color. We do this through peer-to-peer donor learning, investing in leaders of color, supporting organizing and advocacy, and through the promotion of our Inclusion Principles. These Inclusion Principles are a set of voluntary commitments we ask organizations we support and partner with to reputed company. We aim to influence how budgets are made, how dollars are allocated, how boards are built, and how folks are hired by requiring a racial equity lens for each. Apply To This Job