Ladder Up is in the search for a Director of Development. Please click to view the full position description or to nominate/apply.

Robert Burke founded Ladder Up in 1994 to help secure unclaimed tax credits for people of underserved Chicago communities. Year One, Burke recruited 90 colleagues with finance skills to prepare tax returns at no cost. This returned over $150,000 in tax refunds to 120 families. Fast forward to today, the organization has served 775,000 clients, engaged over 35k volunteers, filed 635,000 tax returns, returned over $1.42 billion to families, and secured an estimated $375 million in financial aid awards for students. Over the years, Ladder Up has evolved to deliver other kinds of services to hard working people trying to move up the economic ladder. Today the organization offers a suite of discrete programs, and every dollar invested in Ladder Up has a direct impact on its clients.

Ladder Up seeks an experienced development professional who is a creative and strategic thinker to segment, approach, qualify, solicit and honor individual, business and foundation donor/investors to fund services that provide hard working people with free financial resources to secure the opportunities they need to move up the economic ladder. The Director of Development’s key responsibility is to develop the broader strategy for short-term and long-term fundraising and relationships, and to personally solicit and orchestrate team solicitations of capacity-building funds to scale the organization so that it can serve more families.

We appreciate you sharing the position description with your network, and also any nominations you might have.

For additional information or to apply, please contact Oscar Quiros, Kevin Redick & Mark Oppenheim at info[at]moppenheim[dot]com.