Apply to be Shasta Scout’s Gifts and Membership Manager
Where you’ll work: Remote, hybrid, or in person | Must be located in Northern California
Reports To: Director
Employment Type: Full-Time, Exempt
Position Summary
The Gifts and Membership Manager will play a vital role in sustaining and growing Shasta Scout’s mission-driven journalism.
In this position, you will work with the executive director to design and operate organizational strategy to increase impact-aligned giving that supports the work of Shasta Scout. You will build and grow a variety of community partnerships to drive new and increased donations and encourage and support other forms of revenue. This is a development role.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify, develop and submit grant proposals
- Identify and cultivate relationships with major donors
- Oversee membership growth and benefits fulfillment
- Develop relationships with current and potential partners across a variety of funding sectors and geographical locations
- Develop and deploy mission-aligned messaging and materials that facilitate strategic donor communication
- Build and manage a comprehensive database of partners and potential partners across revenue streams
- Track and adapt fundraising goals and gap-closing strategy quarterly, in collaboration with the director
- Meet monthly revenue goals
Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum three years of experience in fundraising ideally with a nonprofit or mission-driven organization
- Consultative, partnership-focused solution-oriented style
- Demonstrated success in relationship-building and securing financial support
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to craft compelling messages aligned with a unique organization’s mission and impact
- Understanding of digital marketing, audience engagement, and community outreach
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with attention to detail and follow-through
- Self-motivated and agile with the ability to thrive in a small, evolving collaborative newsroom environment
- Experience using CRM or donor management software (e.g., Airtable, Network for Good, HubSpot, Salesforce) is a plus
Work Environment & Compensation
- Flexible, primarily remote position with in-person meetings or events in Redding, CA several times per month.
- Competitive salary commensurate with experience, ranging from $55,000 to $70,000.
- Benefits include a health stipend, paid time off, flexible scheduling, and professional development opportunities.
How to Apply
Please send your resume and a writing sample showcasing your development communication and approach to annelisepierce@shastascout.org.
Of Note:
We highly value lived experiences and strongly encourage you to apply, even if you don’t believe you meet every one of the qualifications described.
Studies have shown that women, trans and nonbinary individuals and people of color are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications as described in a job description. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization, and we are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job. That candidate may be one who comes from a less traditional background and we welcome the new insight such a candidate would provide.
About Shasta Scout
Shasta Scout is a nonprofit, independent newsroom dedicated to producing rigorous, community-centered journalism for and about Shasta County and the greater North State region. Our innovative online news service strengthens democracy by providing access to trustworthy information in a way that deepens and empowers engagement with the news, our neighbors, and people in power. We investigate issues that matter, amplify underrepresented voices, and foster civic participation by ensuring residents have the information they need to make informed decisions and build a stronger community.
Shasta Scout is an emerging team with three full-time employees and one part-time staffer. We provide news as a service across a rural region of far northern California where many community members currently lack access to trustworthy information. Shasta Scout’s funding comes from a combination of reader donations, grants from news ecosystem funders, collaborations with other organizations and gifts from large donors. This year that revenue is funding a budget of about $450,000 which facilitates publication on our website, distribution of two newsletters and news shared on a variety of social media with plans to launch a print edition this year. In all, Shasta Scout currently reaches an audience of about 20,000 each month.
About Shasta County:
Shasta Scout serves Shasta County, a rural far northern California community with a population of approximately 180,000 located two and a half hours north of Sacramento and an hour south of the Oregon border. The area is of significant environmental importance to California. In addition to our numerous beautiful public lands and forests, several culturally, economically and ecologically important rivers flow through our region, which is also home to Shasta Dam, the keystone of the Central Valley Project.
Shasta County is also home to a dense Indigenous community including multiple tribes, several of which are federally unrecognized. Some of these, particularly the Winnemem Wintu and Pit River Tribes, are engaged in high-profile resistance movements against development projects that threaten their tribal cultures and ancestral lands.
Demographically, Shasta County is predominantly white and conservative. We’re a hotspot for movements hoping to secede from the state of California including and for for militia-connected political activism. Bethel Church, an international megachurch with local and national political influence — and a penchant for political activism — is one of the largest employees in our region.
Our community also faces many health challenges, including poverty, a lack of affordable housing, and the highest suicide rate in the state.