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For more than 40 years, Hamilton Families has been a leader in the movement to end family homelessness in San Francisco. We believe that every family deserves a safe place to call home and every child deserves the opportunity to thrive. Through our comprehensive programs—including emergency shelter, transitional housing, homelessness prevention, and rapid re-housing—we help families navigate housing crises and achieve long-term housing stability. But we know that housing alone is not enough. Guided by our ambitious Strategic Plan, Hamilton Families is expanding our approach to address the root causes of family homelessness: poverty and systemic inequality. By connecting families to opportunity-rich neighborhoods, centering children's needs, and providing comprehensive support that promotes long-term economic mobility, we're working to ensure that families don't just find housing—they have the resources and opportunities to thrive for generations.
What You’ll Do
The Development Team at Hamilton Families is responsible for securing $7–15 million annually and building meaningful partnerships with prominent national and Bay Area philanthropists, corporations, foundations, and community partners to advance our mission. Annual revenue is generated through institutional grants, individual giving, events, corporate partnerships, and other philanthropic investments. In addition, Hamilton Families receives more than $500,000 each year in donated time, goods, materials, and services.
Hamilton Families seeks a detail-oriented and passionate Development and Communications Coordinator with strong organizational, project management, research, and relationship-building skills. Reporting to the Individual Giving Manager the Coordinator will play an integral role supporting the full Development team and Hamilton Families’ fundraising and community engagement efforts.
This position will support donor stewardship and communications, fundraising operations, prospect research and pipeline development, events and community partnerships, volunteer activations, and in-kind giving. The Coordinator will work closely with colleagues across the Development team to help identify and cultivate new individual and corporate prospects, execute meaningful engagement opportunities, maintain strong fundraising systems and data, and provide flexible support across departmental priorities.
This is an excellent opportunity for a development professional who enjoys working across multiple areas of fundraising and engagement and is interested in building experience in strategic philanthropy, donor relations, corporate and community partnerships, events, and nonprofit communications
What Your Day Looks Like
- Maintain accurate and timely donor, prospect, gift, pledge, volunteer, and in-kind records in Salesforce.
- Oversee gift processing, including monetary and in-kind contributions and volunteer hours, ensuring real-time and accurate records of gifts and pledges.
- Work directly with the Individual Giving Manager and Finance team to support reporting, monthly reconciliation, and annual audits.
- Maintain online donation platforms and support the accuracy and effectiveness of donor-facing giving tools.
- Prepare and send gift acknowledgements and other donor correspondence.
- Support with donor and prospect meeting materials, including briefings, research, giving histories, and fundraising reports.
- Conduct research to identify prospective individual donors, corporate partners, sponsors, and community partners aligned with Hamilton Families’ mission and fundraising priorities.
- Support team administration such as team calendars and meetings.
Events & Community Partnerships
- Partner closely with the Events & Community Partnerships Manager to support volunteer activations, including corporate volunteer days, community service opportunities, and other mission-focused engagement experiences.
- Support in-kind donation drives and community campaigns, including holiday drives, back-to-school efforts, family needs drives, and other seasonal or program-specific initiatives.
- Accurately track volunteer participation, in-kind contributions, partner engagement, and related activities in Salesforce.
Communications & Fundraising Materials
- Support the management of Hamilton Families’ social media presence, including drafting and scheduling engaging content, monitoring performance metrics, and assisting with the planning and execution of social media campaigns to increase brand awareness, audience engagement, and mission visibility.
- Support the development and execution of digital donor communications, including monthly donor newsletters and targeted email campaigns, by assisting with content creation, email production, scheduling, and performance tracking to strengthen donor engagement and support fundraising goals.
- Support the ongoing management and maintenance of Hamilton Families’ website, including updating content, monitoring website performance and analytics, and ensuring information remains accurate, engaging, and aligned with organizational branding and communications goals.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or relevant professional experience
- Exceptional organizational and time-management skills; able to successfully meet deadlines
- Self-directed; able to take initiative and to work successfully as a project leader or team member
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong ability to communicate successfully across all levels of the organization
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
- Proficient with donor database software, experience with reporting in Salesforce is preferred
- Sensitivity to the needs of families experiencing homelessness; able and willing to work with diverse staff and program participants
- Passionate about the mission, vision, and values of Hamilton Families
- Criminal background check, fingerprint imaging, TB (Tuberculosis) clearance, and documentation required post offer.
Why Choose Us
- Our commitment to welcome all individuals creates a richness of viewpoints and keen ability to challenge established thinking
- Enjoy excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employer matched 403(b) retirement plan
- Wellness and commuter benefit programs
- Paid time off and holidays
- Resourceful
- Helpful/ “Yes, And”
- Growth Mindset
- Data Informed
- EDI: Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Hamilton Families is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Equity, diversity, and inclusion are central to our organization. We actively seek and prioritize diversity in our teams. We welcome applications from people with a variety of backgrounds and ages, including people of color, candidates with lived experiences, candidates in the LGBTQ+ community, and candidates who identify personally at any part of the gender spectrum. Additionally, we are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
For more than 40 years, Hamilton Families has been a leader in the movement to end family homelessness in San Francisco. We believe that every family deserves a safe place to call home and every child deserves the opportunity to thrive. Through our comprehensive programs—including emergency shelter, transitional housing, homelessness prevention, and rapid re-housing—we help families navigate housing crises and achieve long-term housing stability. But we know that housing alone is not enough. Guided by our ambitious Strategic Plan, Hamilton Families is expanding our approach to address the root causes of family homelessness: poverty and systemic inequality. By connecting families to opportunity-rich neighborhoods, centering children's needs, and providing comprehensive support that promotes long-term economic mobility, we're working to ensure that families don't just find housing—they have the resources and opportunities to thrive for generations.
What You’ll Do
The Development Team at Hamilton Families is responsible for securing $7–15 million annually and building meaningful partnerships with prominent national and Bay Area philanthropists, corporations, foundations, and community partners to advance our mission. Annual revenue is generated through institutional grants, individual giving, events, corporate partnerships, and other philanthropic investments. In addition, Hamilton Families receives more than $500,000 each year in donated time, goods, materials, and services.
Hamilton Families seeks a detail-oriented and passionate Development and Communications Coordinator with strong organizational, project management, research, and relationship-building skills. Reporting to the Individual Giving Manager the Coordinator will play an integral role supporting the full Development team and Hamilton Families’ fundraising and community engagement efforts.
This position will support donor stewardship and communications, fundraising operations, prospect research and pipeline development, events and community partnerships, volunteer activations, and in-kind giving. The Coordinator will work closely with colleagues across the Development team to help identify and cultivate new individual and corporate prospects, execute meaningful engagement opportunities, maintain strong fundraising systems and data, and provide flexible support across departmental priorities.
This is an excellent opportunity for a development professional who enjoys working across multiple areas of fundraising and engagement and is interested in building experience in strategic philanthropy, donor relations, corporate and community partnerships, events, and nonprofit communications
What Your Day Looks Like
- Maintain accurate and timely donor, prospect, gift, pledge, volunteer, and in-kind records in Salesforce.
- Oversee gift processing, including monetary and in-kind contributions and volunteer hours, ensuring real-time and accurate records of gifts and pledges.
- Work directly with the Individual Giving Manager and Finance team to support reporting, monthly reconciliation, and annual audits.
- Maintain online donation platforms and support the accuracy and effectiveness of donor-facing giving tools.
- Prepare and send gift acknowledgements and other donor correspondence.
- Support with donor and prospect meeting materials, including briefings, research, giving histories, and fundraising reports.
- Conduct research to identify prospective individual donors, corporate partners, sponsors, and community partners aligned with Hamilton Families’ mission and fundraising priorities.
- Support team administration such as team calendars and meetings.
Events & Community Partnerships
- Partner closely with the Events & Community Partnerships Manager to support volunteer activations, including corporate volunteer days, community service opportunities, and other mission-focused engagement experiences.
- Support in-kind donation drives and community campaigns, including holiday drives, back-to-school efforts, family needs drives, and other seasonal or program-specific initiatives.
- Accurately track volunteer participation, in-kind contributions, partner engagement, and related activities in Salesforce.
Communications & Fundraising Materials
- Support the management of Hamilton Families’ social media presence, including drafting and scheduling engaging content, monitoring performance metrics, and assisting with the planning and execution of social media campaigns to increase brand awareness, audience engagement, and mission visibility.
- Support the development and execution of digital donor communications, including monthly donor newsletters and targeted email campaigns, by assisting with content creation, email production, scheduling, and performance tracking to strengthen donor engagement and support fundraising goals.
- Support the ongoing management and maintenance of Hamilton Families’ website, including updating content, monitoring website performance and analytics, and ensuring information remains accurate, engaging, and aligned with organizational branding and communications goals.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree preferred or relevant professional experience
- Exceptional organizational and time-management skills; able to successfully meet deadlines
- Self-directed; able to take initiative and to work successfully as a project leader or team member
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong ability to communicate successfully across all levels of the organization
- Highly proficient with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)
- Proficient with donor database software, experience with reporting in Salesforce is preferred
- Sensitivity to the needs of families experiencing homelessness; able and willing to work with diverse staff and program participants
- Passionate about the mission, vision, and values of Hamilton Families
- Criminal background check, fingerprint imaging, TB (Tuberculosis) clearance, and documentation required post offer.
Why Choose Us
- Our commitment to welcome all individuals creates a richness of viewpoints and keen ability to challenge established thinking
- Enjoy excellent medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employer matched 403(b) retirement plan
- Wellness and commuter benefit programs
- Paid time off and holidays
- Resourceful
- Helpful/ “Yes, And”
- Growth Mindset
- Data Informed
- EDI: Equitable, Diverse, and Inclusive
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Hamilton Families is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Equity, diversity, and inclusion are central to our organization. We actively seek and prioritize diversity in our teams. We welcome applications from people with a variety of backgrounds and ages, including people of color, candidates with lived experiences, candidates in the LGBTQ+ community, and candidates who identify personally at any part of the gender spectrum. Additionally, we are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
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Who's Hiring
- Resolv.Global21R
- Amazon6
- Irby Utilities3
- CAMBA2
- Kiewit Corporation2
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in director of development and communications jobs.
- 7 or more years of combined fundraising and communications experience
- Demonstrated success managing major gifts and donor stewardship programs
- Experience with donor management software such as Raiser's Edge or Salesforce NPSP
- Ability to develop and execute integrated annual giving and marketing campaigns
- Strong writing and editing skills for grants, appeals, and public-facing content
- Experience supervising and developing a small team of development and communications staff
Tips for Your Director of Development and Communications Job Search
Quantify fundraising and campaign outcomes
Hiring committees for this dual role want numbers on both sides: dollars raised, donor retention rates, and media impressions or audience growth. Pull those figures from your last two positions and lead with them in your resume summary and each job entry.
Tailor your portfolio to the mission type
A director of development and communications portfolio that worked at a hospital system won't automatically translate to an arts organization. Swap featured case studies to match the sector of each employer, emphasizing campaigns or appeals that align with their donor or audience base.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists director of development and communications openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Filter by budget size, not just title
A director of development and communications at a $2M nonprofit runs a fundamentally different operation than the same title at a $50M institution. Read job postings for annual fund targets, team size, and board engagement scope to find openings where your experience level actually fits.
Prepare a cross-functional leadership story
Interviewers for this role probe how development and communications functions stay aligned under one leader. Walk into interviews with a concrete example of how you resolved tension between a fundraising priority and a communications message, and what the outcome was.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
Before accepting an offer, clarify which functions you own outright versus share with a CMO, CDO, or external agency. Directors who discover mid-tenure that communications is effectively outsourced often find their actual authority is narrower than the title suggested.
Director of Development and Communications Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most director of development and communicationss?
The companies hiring the most director of development and communicationss right now include Resolv.Global, Amazon, and Irby Utilities, with the largest share of openings in California, Texas, and Washington, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Nonprofits, universities, and health systems consistently represent the largest share of active postings for this combined leadership role.
How many director of development and communications jobs are remote?
About 81% of director of development and communications openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the in-person relationship demands of major gifts work. Communications-heavy functions like content strategy and media relations are more likely to allow remote arrangements, while donor cultivation and board liaison duties typically require on-site presence.
How do you become a director of development and communications?
Most directors of development and communications build toward the role by working in both functions separately before moving into a combined leadership seat. Start by developing depth in either major gifts, annual giving, or communications, then seek roles that require you to coordinate across both disciplines. Earning a CFRE credential strengthens the fundraising side, while building a portfolio of campaigns, press materials, and brand work demonstrates communications range. Senior manager or associate director roles that touch both functions are the most direct stepping stones.
Can I get hired as a director of development and communications with little experience?
Getting hired at the director level with limited experience is uncommon, but candidates who have led a small development or communications team and can show measurable results sometimes move up faster at smaller organizations. Nonprofits with annual budgets under a few million dollars are more likely to hire a rising candidate who combines genuine fundraising results with strong writing and relationship skills than a larger institution with a deep applicant pool.
What does the director of development and communications interview process look like?
The process typically runs three to five rounds and involves a broader group than most director searches. Expect an initial screening with HR or a search consultant, followed by a panel with the executive director or president, then separate conversations with the board development committee and key communications or program staff. Many employers include a written exercise such as drafting a donor appeal or a press release, and finalists often present a short entry plan or fundraising strategy before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to director of development and communications jobs?
You can find and apply to director of development and communications jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your sector experience and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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