Development Executive Director

1. Cultivate trusted relationships with Christ Church’s leading giving households through regular, intentional personal engagement, including coffees, breakfasts, lunches, ministry conversations, and strategic donor touchpoints.
2. Create opportunities that help individuals and families with the gift of generosity connect more deeply to the mission, vision, strategic priorities, and future ministry plans of Christ Church.
3. Work closely with the Lead Pastor, CFO, and senior leadership team to develop fundraising goals, donor engagement strategies, campaign metrics, and clear pathways for resourcing the church’s ministry priorities.
4. Design and implement an estate and legacy giving strategy that invites Christ Church members and friends to consider how their generosity can continue shaping ministry for future generations.
5. Serve as a key leader in advancing capital campaigns and major giving initiatives, partnering with the Lead Pastor to cast vision, cultivate relationships, and inspire joyful participation.
6. Build systems and relationships that help identify emerging donors, deepen engagement, and invite broader participation in the financial mission of Christ Church.
7. Oversee thoughtful donor communication, gratitude, reporting, follow-up, and relationship management so that every donor may experience care, clarity, and confidence in the impact of their giving.

• Engage fully in the life and culture of Christ Church. Participate in staff meetings, worship services, training opportunities, church-wide gatherings, and special events as an active and encouraging member of the Christ Church team.
• Serve the broader mission of the church.  Support key ministry moments such as Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day, outreach events, mission initiatives, and other church-wide opportunities where additional leadership, presence, and support are needed.
• Collaborate across ministries with a team-first spirit.  Work with ministry leaders and staff teams to strengthen alignment, share insight and resources, and contribute to a unified, healthy, and mission-focused staff culture.
• Model the values of Christ Church in daily work and relationships.  Demonstrate Christ-centered character, humility, teamwork, accountability, prayerfulness, and a commitment to serving others with excellence and grace.
• Continue growing as a leader and servant of Christ.  Pursue ongoing personal, spiritual, and professional development through training, reading, mentoring, coaching, and other growth opportunities.
• Contribute to a culture of care, prayer, and encouragement.  Help foster a staff environment marked by grace, trust, encouragement, and prayer by supporting colleagues, volunteers, and congregants as appropriate.
• Bring flexibility, ownership, and a willing spirit.  Assist with special projects, emerging needs, and assignments outside the immediate scope of the role when doing so helps advance the mission and ministry of Christ Church.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree
• Experience: 10+ years of experience in professional fundraising, nonprofit development, or related fields (church-specific experience is often a plus).

• Professional CFRE certification strongly preferred

• Mission-Oriented: A dedicated individual who understands and aligns with the church's theology of stewardship and mission.
• Communication Skills: Strong interpersonal, written, and public speaking skills.
• Technology Proficiency: Familiarity with Relationship Management Systems (e.g., Touchpoint, ROCK RMS, Mortarstone).

• Support and modelindividual spiritual formation i.e. Worship, Grow and Serve.  (Weekly worship, prayer, scripture reading, small group, volunteering/service, etc.).
• Regularly attends worship and participates in ministry events at Christ Church unless exempted by Christ Church leadership.
• Seeks opportunities and participates in authentic worship, exalting and enjoying God as one of life’s greatest purposes and pleasures.
• Loves as an attractive witness, living to draw others to Christ in personal, daily mission.
• Intentionally seeks to become like Jesus, growing purposefully and intentionally.
• Values and contributes to genuine community, doing life together with colleagues and congregation.
• Enrolls in genuine service, living a life of service, humility and generosity.
• Engages fully in life-changing love by loving people extravagantly.

• Detailed-oriented with high capacity to manage multiple projects at high level of detail and organization.
• Desire to continuously learn and serve others.
• Honest and trustworthy.
• Integrity for work habits and results.
• Ability to discern needs and respond appropriately, sensitively and proactively.
• Appreciation for own and others’ giftedness.
• Ongoing desire and effort to grow more Christ—like in character.
• Able to keep high degree of confidentiality.
• High degree of professionalism.
• Approachable and accessible.

• While not losing sight of the importance of the people the data represents, ability to work with numbers and analytics
• Maintaining a high level of confidentiality with personal data, individual giving and related information.
• Continually seeks to understand and exemplify the scriptures and components associated with stewardship and living generously.
• Communicates with clarity and warmth across diverse audiences
• Demonstrates integrity, humility, and alignment with Christ Church’s values
• Collaborates effectively across teams and ministries
• Organizes and prioritizes work to meet goals with excellence
• Learns quickly and adapts to new tools, systems, and challenges

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