Build the Team You Need to Achieve Your Mission
The right fundraiser in the right role is essential to your organization’s success. That’s why we offer recruitment services specifically tailored to the needs of nonprofit organizations and development professionals.
Whether you’re expanding your fundraising team or filling a critical leadership role, we will ensure your hire will meet your qualifications, share your values, and is ready to drive towards big goals.
What We Offer
- Strategic Role Definition
Our discovery process helps you clarify the role you seek to fill. We’ll work with you to write the job description, determine qualifications, and set salary benchmarks to help ensure you’re ready to attract the right development talent from the start. - Sourcing and Outreach
We proactively recruit through our extensive nonprofit networks, curated databases, and sector-specific platforms to identify top-tier fundraising candidates. - Screening and Selection
We provide a first line of review, screening resumes, and conducting preliminary interviews so your hiring team can focus on the most promising candidates. - Equity-Centered Hiring Practices
Our approach is rooted in equity and inclusion. We’ll work with your team to ward against bias and help ensure that your search attracts a diverse and representative pool of applicants. - Onboarding Your new hire’s first days and weeks are critical to their success – and yours. We’ll advise on your onboarding process and help streamline activities to help ensure a smooth start.
- Interim Staffing and Support
Need a temporary solution during your search? We can provide an interim development director or a team member to focus on grants writing and/or donor engagement to keep your fundraising goals on track.
Not sure what you need? Reach out for a complimentary consultation.
Why Focus Fundraising?
Development hiring can be overwhelming, especially for small to mid-sized nonprofits without dedicated HR staff well-versed in fundraising.
Our expertise in development, nonprofit culture, and what makes a great hire saves you time and helps ensure you bring on the best person for the role. We know how to match organizations with professionals who are well-qualified, have deep experience, and are passionate about your mission.
Interested in working with us?
Contact us to learn more about our hiring services and how we can support your next great hire.
“Focus helped us with significant staffing challenges as we built our team in an impossibly tight market. From senior-level consultants helping us engage individual and institutional donors, writers crafting proposals, reports, and impact stories, to researchers who offer prospect and donor information quickly, our partnership continues to provide us a deep bench when we need it.”
Sr. Development Director
Center for Policing Equity