Director of Individual Giving & Donor Engagement

Position Summary: The Director leads CAAs individual giving and donor engagement strategy, overseeing systems, workplans, and cross-department coordination to cultivate and steward donors at all levels.

This role translates programmatic and advocacy work into fundraising strategies, leads the individual giving function, and supervises a Senior Development Manager position.

About Chinese for Affirmative Action (CAA) Chinese for Affirmative Action was founded in 1969 to protect the civil and political rights of Chinese Americans and to advance multiracial democracy in the United States.

Today, CAA is a progressive voice in and on behalf of the broader Asian American and Pacific Islander community.

We advocate for systemic change that protects immigrant rights, promotes language diversity, and remedies racial and social injustice.

At the grassroots level, our community building work nurtures the ability of immigrants to participate fully in civic life.

These activities include direct services, leadership development, and civic engagement with limited-English proficient newcomers and immigrants on issues that impact our community.

At the systemic level, CAA leads advocacy, communications, and movement building work to improve public policy and shape public discourse.

We produce community-based research, publish policy analyses and recommendations, influence opinion through media, organize to engage elected and government officials, and nurture a range of progressive coalitions.

In 2014, CAA helped to launch the Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE) network, which focuses on long-term movement building, capacity infrastructure, and leadership support for Asian Americans committed to social justice.

Including CAA, there are currently 11 partnering member groups with unique strengths.

Fiscal sponsorship, administrative, and operational support is provided centrally for all of these groups so they can focus on their core programs.

In 2020, CAA was one of the founding organizations of Stop AAPI Hate (SAH), a U.S.-based coalition dedicated to ending racism and discrimination against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAs & PIs).

SAH strives to advance the multiracial movement for equity and justice by building power for our communities, working in solidarity with other communities of color, and advocating for comprehensive solutions that tackle the root causes of race-based hate.

With local offices anchored at its San Francisco Chinatown headquarters, CAA provides direct services and maintains an active state policy presence through an office and partnership in Sacramento, and statewide and national advocacy through English and Chinese-language strategic communications and a variety of active relationships with allies.

Position Description CAA is seeking a strategic, relationship-oriented fundraising leader to serve as its Director of Individual Giving and Donor Engagement.

This senior leadership role is responsible for developing an...