Donor Organizer Hub: Deputy Director

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Job Title: Deputy Director

Reports to: Executive Director

Location: Remote (U.S.-based only)

Employment Type: Full-time with benefits

Salary: $75,000-$90,000, depending on experience in areas like scaling training/coaching systems, distributed organizing, base building, or fundraising leadership.

• Budget: We are a $250,000/year organization aiming to grow to $400,000 by 2028. This is our second staff hire.

Benefits: Healthcare, dental, vision, retirement with up to 3% match, workers’ comp, life insurance, computer stipend, work-from-home stipend, up to $3,000 per year in professional development.

• Paid Leave: 15 days of vacation leave, 11 paid holidays, 10 days of sick and wellness leave, and 2 extended office closures per year (approximately two weeks each in summer and winter).

Role Breakdown

• Capacity Building: Training & Coaching Multiplication – 60%: Design and deliver training and coaching while building systems, cohorts, and leaders who can replicate and expand donor organizing models to their own contexts and communities.

• Partnership Management – 20%: Lead consulting engagements, build and maintain relationships with partner organizations, and help refine our approach to strategic partnerships. Support partners not just in participating in Donor Organizer Hub-led trainings/coaching, but in developing their own pathways and cohorts of trainers and coaches who can sustain and expand donor organizing models.

• Project Management – 15%: Collaborate with the Executive Director on internal systems, capacity-building tools, and movement-aligned initiatives.

• Admin & Communications – 5%: Support internal communications, newsletters, virtual event logistics, and documentation.

Application Process

1. Submit resume, responses to 4 short questions (in lieu of a cover letter), and 1-3 examples of prior work that show how you design for others to learn, lead, or organize

2. 60-minute 1:1 interview

3. 90-minute panel interview

4. Final 60-minute 1:1 interview

5. Two reference checks

6. Offer

About Us

Our Mission

Donor Organizer Hub builds the base and resources of social movements through:

• Training, coaching, and convening volunteer fundraisers for movement causes at no cost to participants.

• Supporting progressive organizations to build out their volunteer fundraising programs at a sliding scale rate through consulting, coaching, and training.

Our goal is to build the people and money power required for sweeping structural change in our lifetimes.

We prioritize building and supporting multiracial, cross-class volunteer fundraising teams as a core part of strengthening movements and expanding community leadership.

Our Values

1. Relational fundraising asks are an invitation to our movements.

2. Everyday people-powered movements should be, can be, and for most of organizing history have been resourced by everyday people.

3. There is countless untapped potential for creativity, joy, and fun in fundraising.

4. We mobilize a bigger base and more resources through organizing campaign cycles of learning: planning-doing-reflecting.

5. Developing donor organizing capacity builds movement leadership.

Our History

Donor Organizer Hub was founded in June 2022 in response to a clear need from peers in the movement for a hub focused on volunteer fundraisers’ leadership development. Since then, we’ve trained and convened over 1,000 people through hundreds of trainings, coaching sessions, and convenings.

We’ve provided private trainings, coaching, and consulting to partner organizations across the country, shared best practices at convenings and interviews, and built programs like cohort-based Peer Coaching for Volunteer Fundraisers and our PlayDOHs train-the-trainer program, while piloting muliracial, cross-class donor organizing initiatives and supporting volunteer fundraisers at local, state, and national levels, building a network of hundreds of volunteers and donors across movement efforts.

The Role

This is a new position for Donor Organizer Hub. You’ll play a critical role in building, operationalizing, and scaling the organization — particularly in multiplying our training and coaching capacity so that thousands more volunteer fundraisers can be reached through alumni, partners, and peer leaders, while also modeling high-quality training and coaching yourself.

We envision this role as a key thought partner to the Executive Director—someone who will grow into co-strategizing on programs, partnerships, and organizational vision.

While many of the job responsibilities are set, much of “how” those responsibilities are met and how they are refined will be developed in coordination with the Executive Director. Because we’re a small, startup organization, you’ll wear many hats—bringing new ideas, asking agitational questions, and helping reflect on what’s working and what needs to shift.

Your first 3 months will look like:

• Taking the lead on a starter project, co-designed with the Executive Director, that contributes directly to Donor Organizer Hub’s programmatic or operational growth (e.g., developing an alumni program for our PlayDOH train the trainer program, developing a new partner engagement and outcome tracking system)

• Conducting a short internal “audit” of one or two areas (e.g., training delivery, coaching pathways, partner engagement systems), surfacing what’s working and where we could grow — and proposing and executing first steps to scale

• Beginning to lead key projects that model high-quality training/coaching while building systems for replication — such as launching a public training series with a plan for how alumni or partners will deliver future rounds, or managing a consulting engagement that results in partners adopting Donor Organizer Hub coaching frameworks

• Designing and launching a personal grassroots fundraising campaign for a movement cause you care about — to practice what we teach and strengthen your voice in this work

• Build and deepen relationships with volunteers, alumni, partners, and advisors — with accountability not just for introductions, but for identifying concrete next steps for alumni engagement, partner retention, and expansion of training/coaching pathways for leadership

You won’t be expected to have it all figured out right away. ** What matters most is curiosity, initiative, and a willingness to learn and adapt** — offering ideas, testing approaches, and building the structures and culture this organization needs to grow.

Responsibilities

Capacity-Building: Training & Coaching Multiplication (60%)

• Design and deliver training and coaching while modeling a learning posture — treating each engagement as an opportunity to refine, adapt, and share lessons across the movement

• Build systems and structures that allow others to train and coach as well — including alumni, partner staff, and volunteer leaders — strengthening and spreading donor organizing models beyond existing Donor Organizer Hub staff and volunteers

• Design and maintain scalable tools (curriculum libraries, facilitator guides, peer coaching frameworks) that make it easy for others to step into trainer/coach roles

• Identify, support, and equip volunteers, alumni, and partner organizations to run their own training/coaching cycles, developing new facilitators and coaches and supporting them to carry forward these models

• Track and refine the effectiveness of training-of-trainers and peer-coaching models, ensuring continuous learning and iteration

Partnership Management (20%)

• Lead consulting projects with partner organizations to build or strengthen their volunteer fundraising programs, including designing scopes of work, delivering support, and tracking progress toward shared goals

• Equip partner organizations with the tools and frameworks to develop their own trainers and coaches, ensuring sustainability and scale beyond Donor Organizer Hub-led engagements

• Establish and strengthen partnerships with volunteers, staff leadership, and movement organizations — with clear outcomes around deepened engagement, adoption of donor organizing models, and long-term collaboration in ongoing capacity-building work

Project Management (15%)

• With the ED, develop internal capacity measurement and project management tracking systems

• With the ED, brainstorm and develop new ideas and opportunities to build capacity within the team and the wider movement

Admin & Communications (5%)

• Oversee the creation and distribution of our monthly newsletter. Ensure content provides relevant updates, resources, and upcoming events for our broader community

• Attend meetings and events as needed to take clear and accurate notes to document learnings for internal capacity building, set up breakout rooms, and post relevant links as necessary

Qualifications

Must Haves:

Technical Skills

• Demonstrated experience scaling a program, system, or set of practices beyond your own direct delivery — for example, by building frameworks, resources, or structured pathways that enable others to replicate or expand the work

• 3+ years of prior experience (professional or volunteer) managing projects in collaboration with others: able to build timelines, track tasks, and coordinate with teammates or partners to keep work moving forward

• 2+ years of prior experience (professional or volunteer) in designing and facilitating trainings and/or coaching sessions

• 2+ years of prior experience (professional or volunteer) in base-building organizing, distributed organizing, or individual fundraising: understands the relational, values-based nature of engagement ladders and making direct asks

Behavioral Traits

• Understands and believes deeply in Donor Organizer Hub’s mission and values, and is motivated by the opportunity to grow in this role alongside others

• Approaches the role with a builder’s mindset — willing to experiment, learn, and adapt, rather than arriving with a fixed theory of change or expecting to have all the answers upfront

• Has both self-starter initiative—the ability to take action without waiting for instructions—and adaptability—flexibility in figuring things out independently or in consultation with the Executive Director

• Has a proven record of being reliable and following through on completing tasks and managing projects independently and on time

• Has experience building trust and collaboration within a team, including fostering feedback loops and implementing feedback

• Takes inevitable mistakes or challenges as an opportunity to reflect, learn, and build new solutions

• Thinks strategically and systemically - able to identify patterns, connect dots across projects, and propose solutions that support long-term goals and organizational values

• Is collaborative, curious, and passionate about building relationships within the progressive ecosystem and developing solutions to address partners’ challenges

• Is passionate about organizing and fundraising research and how it can be applied

Ideals:

• Has personal experience as a volunteer leader, with insight into what it takes to motivate, organize, and sustain volunteer teams

• Experience building systems or programs that expanded participation or leadership beyond their own direct work

• Experience building or expanding movement leadership — whether through distributed organizing, training-of-trainers, peer coaching systems, or other models that structured opportunities for volunteers to step into leadership at scale