We’re looking for a sharp, strategic doer to lead fundraising, oversee office operations, and shape our voice. Think: part development director, part office wrangler, part storyteller. You’ll manage grants and donor relationships, make our internal processes hum, and help frame how we talk about what we do. You’ll also collaborate with our board and leadership to build a fundraising culture rooted in partnership—not just transactions.
responsibilities
- Lead fundraising strategy (grants, donor outreach, events)
- Use fundraising as advocacy—bringing funders into real conversations about power, equity, and impact
- Support board engagement and help them grow into their fundraising role
- Manage admin, HR, compliance, and office operations
- Craft clear, compelling communications for donors, partners, and the public
qualifications
- Experience in nonprofit development, communications, and admin
- Strong writing, organizational, and people skills
- Comfort working across staff and board
- A values-aligned voice and a sense of humor
- A belief that fundraising can be a tool for social change—not just a means to an end
- Recovering lawyers preferred
salary
Pay and benefits are in line with legal services salaries and commensurate with experience. We know we're not able to pay you what you'd get in the for-profit world, but we promise that you'll always be treated with respect, have flexibility to shape work around your home life and other obligations, and, most importantly, have the freedom to do justice. Starting salary is $50k with mechanical escalators for experience and time with us per our equitable pay policy.
about street democracy
We're a small group of justice architects. We use our legal skills to transform the systems that perpetuate poverty into systems of opportunity. We're generalists with enough range to help our homeless clients navigate those problematic systems. And we're creative tinkerers when developing better ways to achieve justice--even if the prototype is all jenky and held together by duct tape. :p But we're not too self-important that we can't laugh about the hubris of chasing after our dreams.
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We strongly encourage people of color, women, LGBTQ people, people with disabilities, people with past involvement in the justice system, and people with experience with poverty to apply. This is more than a generic policy statement, as 83% of our board and staff have multiple identities and all of us have at least one.
how to apply
Apply at https://jobs.streetdemocracy.org