Careers
Destination: Home is always looking for dedicated, dynamic, and passionate people interested in joining our team. View our organization’s core values.
In addition to the roles below, we encourage you to learn about other ways you can get involved with our efforts to end homelessness in our community.
Development and Administration Officer
Reporting to the Director of Administration and Development, this position manages all gift administration, grants, and contract processes while supporting fundraising operations and cross-departmental coordination across a dynamic, mission-driven organization. The role partners closely with Leadership, Initiatives, Communications, and Administration to ensure strong donor stewardship, accurate reporting, timely grant submissions, and effective use of data and systems. As a key member of a small and collaborative operations team, this position balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution – supporting proposals, reports, donor engagement efforts, and organizational planning and events.
Core Duties & Responsibilities
Development
- Donor/Funder Prospecting and Stewardship:
- Conducts research, qualifies and helps prioritize donor/funder prospects
- Creates comprehensive profiles for prospects, including capacity, history of giving, and key relationships
- Develops donor/funder stewardship and cultivation concepts and ensures implementation, including planning and logistics of virtual and in-person donor development events and other complex activities in support of development objectives
- Leads the development of all proposals, reports, and updates
- Tracks and reports on prospect & stewardship activity
- Partners with Communications to create donor/funder newsletter profiles to increase partnership visibility and donor/funder stewardship
- Gifts Administration
- Manages administration of all incoming gifts (processing checks, reconciling gift reports, communications with SVCF, thank you letters, generating and maintaining electronic filings)
- Data Management and Analysis
- Oversees the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system for the organization, including coordination with Communications and Initiatives teams on all data related requests
- Manages annual Development Plan, including tracking and updating, monthly reporting on status and recommended changes, and quarterly analysis of progress
- Leads the bi-annual Data and Assets update process for the Development Team
Grant and Contract Administration
- Grant Applications
- Leads the coordination of all public and private grant applications submissions
- Manages application calendar and deadlines
- Works with Initiatives Team to secure appropriate project information, including financial, goals/objectives, impact to date, etc. and then drafts requests, proposals, and grant applications
- Grant Contract Management
- Manages administration of both government and private grants, including reporting calendar and deadlines and generating and maintaining electronic filings
- Works with the Initiatives Team to obtain appropriate project information, including data, financial information, and impact, and then submits reports and updates in a timely manner
- Supports the organization to ensure timely and accurate billing (submission of invoices and backup documentation) of all cost reimbursement contracts and acts as the initial point of contact to coordinate these efforts
Administration
- Assists with preparing reports, documentation, and presentations, including necessary supporting documentation as needed for internal and external meetings
- Assists with event planning and meeting coordination, including ordering food and supplies as needed
- Supports other agency staff as required and requested
- Supports calendaring, scheduling, arranging travel, and meeting preparation for executive staff, as needed
To learn more and apply, visit the Silicon Valley Community Foundation website*
*Note: Destination: Home is a supporting organization of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation. All job recruitments are conducted in partnership with SVCF and all candidates must apply via the SVCF website.