Deputy Director

Company Description

Progress Alliance is a donor table working to shape politics, collaborating with donors to align resources to build a long-term multiracial, cross-class progressive movement in Washington State.

Role Description

The Deputy Director will serve as a core member of Progress Alliance’s leadership team, partnering closely with the Executive Director to lead member engagement and fundraising growth, and support organizational strategy. This role leads fundraising systems and donor engagement strategy, while the Executive Director retains primary responsibility for top donor and major institutional relationships. This role strengthens our donor (“member”) organizing program, develops systems for relationship management and cultivation, and helps align resources behind our political and movement-building priorities. The Deputy Director will also play a key role in organizational planning and operations, supporting strategic planning, budgeting, and cross-team coordination. This is a full-time, permanent position reporting to the Executive Director.

Qualifications

Minimum Required Qualifications – work, volunteer, academic, and other life experience are all acceptable and valuable for satisfying qualifications.

Progress Alliance is seeking a highly organized, adaptable, and relationship-driven individual for this role. The Deputy Director should be a curious researcher and sharp thinker who exercises sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information. We are looking for a team member with an ‘all-hands-on-deck’ mentality, where no job is too small and we all pitch in to get the job done. Please be sure your application materials demonstrate how you meet the below required qualifications and highlight any of the “nice to haves” in your experience.

• 7 years of experience in political, nonprofit, philanthropic, or movement settings – especially roles that bridge strategy, relationships, and fundraising
• 3 years of experience designing and carrying out fundraising or donor engagement strategies that connect people to purpose
• 3 years of narrative or communications experience, skilled at turning complex information into compelling messages that build shared analysis, inspire action, and align donors, partners, and staff around common purpose.
• Experience in building and running planning and logistics for purpose-driven events that connect people with mission and meaning
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills, with demonstrated experience helping teams and partners find clarity and alignment
• Strong project management skills: comfortable leading projects from start to finish, juggling multiple priorities without losing sight of the big picture
• Deep commitment to building multiracial cross-class power in Washington State, with a clear-eyed analysis of how race and class shape the work and our movement

“Nice to Have” Qualifications – the list below are skills that will be helpful, but we can also teach after you take the role. All we require is a desire to learn. [NOTE: Most hard skills are learned on the job. As such, we don’t require people to come in knowing a particular platform, or having a particular skill or experience level, if it’s not actually fundamental to their success in the role.]

• Familiarity with Washington’s progressive ecosystem and funding landscape
• Experience in donor organizing, community-centric fundraising, or political donor tables
• Experience with c3, c4, and PAC nonprofit legal structures
• Experience with CRM systems (EveryAction or similar) and collaborative tools like Google Workspace and Asana
• Experience managing staff or consultants and building collaborative teams