[Hack Club](https://hackclub.com) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports high school coders in starting coding clubs, hackathons, and building awesome projects. Founded in 2014, Hack Club's mission is to support, inspire and motivate teenagers from all backgrounds to become highly-technical, and use their computer skills to solve problems.

Hack Club is a fun, quickly-growing start-up, run by highly-creative engineers, building programs every day for thousands of teenagers from around the world. Watch a video of our summer train trip <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BID8_pGuqA> to learn more about Hack Club, and to see the sort of projects you would be supporting. Highly technical Silicon Valley founders donate to Hack Club, and we want to sustain and grow that network. The first $5 million has been raised from a dozen committed donors, and the right candidate can leverage our network to build a sustainable $5m-$7m a year donor network. 

We are looking for an experienced head of philanthropy, however we also invite more junior people to apply (details below).  

The ideal candidate can devise a philanthropy strategy, and lead on executing it. They'll be excited to play a pivotal role in scaling Hack Club to reach hundreds of schools across America. They can demonstrate strong, persuasive writing skills, creative communications, a strategic mindset, and a deeply-held passion for creating opportunity for teenagers from all backgrounds. Actual work includes writing emails, proposals, buildign and maintaining a donor system, working with designers and filmmakers, crafting messaging and listening. Hack Club is a lot of fun. The person in this position will report to COO Christina Asquith, and this position is a great fit for hard-working parents who need flexibilty in their schedule to balance it all. The right candidate could build out our strong existing network inside the tech industry, while also diversifying our funding with foundations.

**Responsibilities include:**

- Write convincing emails
- Build and steward relationships with donors
- Research foundations and craft proposals
- Conceptualize and plan events
- Work closely with the COO and the founder to prepare materials to initiate, steward and close funding asks
- Contact media and coordinate event coverage
- Engage in personal networking and leverage the capacity of other team members, and the board to make contacts and engage, secure, and retain donors.

**Qualifications:**

We are open to 2 types of candidates:

- You are a highly-experienced senior executive, who has advised donors, and who has proven success in stewarding collaborations and closing major gifts. You have raised millions of dollars without a large team, and you have insight into donors-mindset, and even been a grantmaker. You can spark and steward relationships that are more than transactional. 
- Or you aspire to be that person, and are at an earlier stages of your career. In this case, you are an astute deputy with high exec-functioning and writing skills, who will assist the COO in the fundraising (salary will be commensurate with experience).

In addition to the above, all candidates must be:

- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
- Persuasive writers 
- Love and appreciate how fun it is to work with teenagers
- Agree with our philosophy 
- Have some technical aptitude, or an energy and excitement around learning it. 


**How to Apply:** Email jobs@hackclub.com with "kesef" in the subject line, 3 bullet points demonstrating why you would be exceptional for the role, and your resume. Salary commensurate with experience.
