Women’s Leadership Fund Finance Director

Position Summary:

The Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF) Finance Director oversees the major donor fundraising efforts for the WLF program. A crucial part of the Democratic Party, the Women’s Leadership Forum (WLF) was founded in 1993 and aims to raise money as a tool to engage women in our democracy. The Finance Director creates and implements a program-specific finance plan and supports the execution of principal and surrogate travel and fundraising events. The Finance Director is responsible for identifying, cultivating, and maintaining relationships with the program’s top donors and its co-chairs.

The WLF is engaged in a wide array of political activities, providing its members with substantive information, discussion, and action. This includes an annual issues conference, regional events that share and present policy initiatives, opportunities to raise political awareness and cultivate new members, an opportunity to participate in conference calls with policy and political leaders, and much more.

The WLF Finance Director is based in Washington, DC and reports to the Director of Coalition Fundraising and the National Finance Director at the Democratic National Committee.

In this position you will (Responsibilities/Duties):

• Work with DNC Leadership and the WLF steering committee to set monthly and yearly finance and engagement goals
• Write and manage the finance plan
• Cultivate new donors and raisers
• Set and execute a calendar of regular programming, including calls, events, meetings, and political activities
• Organize annual WLF Conference, as well as regional events
• Engage with the political department on women's engagement and organizing activities and recruit WLF membership to join in that work
• Write and disseminate regular communications to WLF members.
• Other duties as assigned to support the department and the DNC's mission
  
  
  

What we will look for (Requirements):

• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• 4-5 years of political fundraising experience
• Strong and engaging interpersonal skills
• Detail oriented and proficient in Excel and Google Suite
• Working knowledge of NGP database
• Experience working on campaign or political committee fundraising teams for 2-3 cycles preferred
• Experience managing events and staffing principals
  
  
  

What we would be excited to see (Skills):

• Experience working in the political fundraising area, with emphasis on women’s or coalition fundraising is preferred
• Experience collaborating with teams
• Strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills
  
  
  

The starting salary for the The Women’s Leadership Fund Finance Director position is $95,000, on an annualized basis, commensurate with experience and qualifications. This is a full-time, exempt position, that may require work on weekends. This position is in the bargaining unit represented by SEIU Local-500.

Travel: The Women’s Leadership Fund Finance Director position will require travel, which could be up to 15-30% of the time.

The Democratic National Committee (DNC), is committed to diversity among its staff, and recognizes that its continued success requires the highest commitment to obtaining and retaining a diverse staff that provides the best quality services to supporters and constituents. The DNC is an equal opportunity employer and it is our policy to recruit, hire, train, promote and administer any and all personnel actions without regard to sex, race, age, color, creed, national origin, religion, economic status, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity or expression, ethnic identity or physical disability, or any other legally protected basis. The DNC will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination and any such conduct is strictly prohibited.

Benefits:

The DNC offers a generous benefit package, including:

Generous paid time off, including federal holidays and open leave

Health and dental insurance for employee and dependents; 90% paid by the DNC, 10% paid by employee

Supplementary vision plans available to employees for purchase

Up to a 5% employer match DNC 401(k) plan

Pre-tax flexible spending account benefits available to employees and dependents