Associate Director, Individual Giving

Application Deadline: October 9, 2026

Experience Level: 7-10 years

Salary: $90,000 - $130,000. Salary is commensurate with experience

National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) is an over 130-year-old Jewish feminist civil rights organization working for equity and justice for women, children, and families in the United States and Israel. With 250,000 grassroots advocates and more than 40 local sections, we combine education, direct service, and advocacy to create lasting social change.

We approach our work through a Jewish, gender, economic, and racial justice lens, centering those most impacted. Our deep partnerships across civil rights, faith-based, and governmental spaces reflect our intersectional values.

NCJW is at a transformational moment, guided by a bold new strategic plan. Our audacious goal: engage one million changemakers nationwide to improve the lives of women, children, and families in the United States and Israel. To reach that goal, NCJW is making important adjustments to its structure, strategy, and staffing. This role is a part of that vision.

Position Summary:

National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) seeks an experienced fundraising professional to serve as our Associate Director, Individual Giving. This role will be responsible for developing and executing strategies for securing mid-level gifts from individuals, family foundations, donor-advised funds, and businesses. Serving as a key member of the Development team, the Associate Director, Individual Giving will partner with the Senior Director of Stakeholder Engagement on strategies to motivate individual gifts and move donors along the giving continuum. This will include developing and executing effective fundraising strategies, prospecting new donors to build the pipeline, stewarding existing mid-level donors, and securing support and sponsorships for event-related fundraising. As these donors provide the basis for NCJW’s growth pipeline, this position will play a pivotal role in ensuring that NCJW expands its donor base and overall fundraising. This position reports to the Vice President of Development and is based in Washington, DC.

Primary Responsibilities

Frontline Fundraising

Partner with the Vice President of Development and Senior Director of Stakeholder Engagement on a multi-faceted individual giving program to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors of $1,000 - $9,999.

Manage a portfolio of 100-150 donors and prospects, ensuring that they are regularly engaged with the organization's mission and impact.

Build a pipeline strategy to move donors along the giving continuum, with an emphasis on those who have major gift capacity. This will be accomplished through data mining of lapsed donors, research on donors who share interests with NCJW, and collaboration with Regional Directors.

Partner with the Senior Director of Stakeholder Engagement to implement NCJW’s Impact Circle, creating new opportunities for enhanced levels of stewardship, engagement, recognition, giving, and donor recruitment and retention for both mid-level and major donors.

Represent the organization in individual donor meetings, effectively communicating the organization's mission and impact.

Travel to key locations to meet with current donors and identify and engage donor prospects.

Donor Research and Management

Conduct research on individual and institutional donors to inform cultivation and solicitation strategies and ensure that donors are kept abreast of the organization's goals and priorities.

Prepare compelling fundraising proposals, programmatic points of emphasis, and other materials to secure individual gifts.

Promote a culture of philanthropy among staff and donors.

Collaborate with the Development and Finance teams to ensure donor data accuracy, appropriate acknowledgments, and recognition in materials and at events.

Other duties as assigned by the VP, Development.

Key Qualifications:

Minimum of five to eight years of frontline fundraising experience working within an organizational setting with increasing levels of responsibility.

Expertise in and a deep understanding of the donor engagement process and moves management.

Track record of successful individual solicitations of at least $10,000.

Superior oral and written communication skills.

Ability to build and maintain excellent relationships within and outside the organization.

Demonstrated excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize work.

Motivated desire to achieve and exceed annual fundraising goals.

Ability to work both independently and with supervision, and as part of a diverse team

Aptitude for multitasking, prioritizing, attention to detail, and managing time in a fast-paced environment, which often presents competing priorities.

Creative team player with a collaborative spirit and proven ability to build productive working relationships internally and externally.

A self-starter, goal-driven to initiate donor visits and fundraising calls.

Experience with Google Workspace and CRMs (we use EveryAction).

Prior experience with Jewish communal or progressive issue-based organization preferred.

Passion for NCJW’s mission.

Benefits, Paid Federal and Jewish Holidays

NCJW offers a generous and comprehensive benefits package, including 25+ paid Federal and Jewish Holidays each year, plus paid vacation time, sick time, and extensive paid leave. In addition, NCJW offers a retirement savings account with employer match, health insurance, dental, vision, disability insurance, professional development, life insurance, flexible spending account, transit benefits, short-term disability insurance, and long-term disability insurance.

NCJW is an Equal Opportunity Employer

At National Council of Jewish Women, we are committed to creating a culture of inclusion and accountability. We honor the wisdom, insights, perspectives, and experiences of diverse viewpoints, and recognize that many critical voices have been underrepresented in Jewish organizational life and nonprofit organizations as a whole for too long. We welcome applications from people of diverse religious, spiritual, and cultural backgrounds. We are an equal opportunity employer and recruit, hire, train, promote, compensate, and administer all personnel actions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, culture, age, creed, disability, ancestry, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship status, or any other protected status.