What started as a small group of families gathered around a kitchen table in 1979 has blossomed into the nation’s leading voice on mental health. The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) is the nation’s largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. 

Today, we are an alliance of hundreds of local affiliates, state organizations and a national office who work in communities across the United States to raise awareness and provide support and education that was not previously available to those in need. NAMI advocates for all who are affected by mental illness, both the individuals and the people in their lives. In particular, we work to address disparities and injustices and to promote dignity and inclusion for all people with mental illness and their families. In addition to being advocates, we educate, we listen, and we lead as evidenced by our public awareness campaigns, the range of numerous programs we provide, and our strong public policy.

We currently have an opening for a Director, Field Resource Development. The Director is responsible for directing strategy, planning and implementation of fund development mechanisms that empower and equip NAMI State Organizations and NAMI Affiliates to grow their financial sustainability.  Focused on increasing NAMI field leaders’ capacity and capability to increase their revenue, the Director works closely with all teams to provide opportunities, partnerships, frameworks and tools, positioning the field well for their fund development success. Additionally, the Director is responsible for expanding the menu of field fund raising options while continuously evaluating and improving the effectiveness of all field-facing resource development approaches and events, including NAMIWalks.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Create and implement fund development strategies, frameworks and tools for building enhanced financial sustainability in our field organizations
• Work in an integrated fashion with the Field Capacity Team, leading financial resource capacity building, and the development and implementation of specific skill-building opportunities and tools in this area
• Work with the Strategic Alliances and Development team on opportunities that can leverage unrestricted revenue-generating opportunities throughout the field, maximizing collaboration among the various parts
• Oversee the NAMIWalks program and other field-facing fund development programs and efforts, ensuring these initiatives are well planned and executed to assure increases in fundraising, awareness, organizational sustainability and support of the mission
• Develop and track metrics to monitor the overall fundraising practices of field organizations, in addition to tracking and evaluating field fundraising practices
• Actively seek NAMI State Organization financial health indicators through a variety of channels to offer support where needed
• Lead, develop and manage a distributed team