Director of Development & Communications

Location: Remote
Reporting To: Executive Director
Compensation: $90,000 - $110,000 with benefits 
Priority Application Deadline: April 17
Start Date: June 2026

About New Seneca Village: New Seneca Village is a restorative residency experience that invites leaders and healers to access expansive resources (time, space, access to nature, restorative practices, intentional community and higher consciousness) for the sake of nourishing and sustaining their collective visioning for a just future.

New Seneca Village is a fiscally sponsored project of Possibility Labs. 

About Possibility Labs (PL): Possibility Labs’ mission is to accelerate and empower community-driven solutions that are built, led, and governed by and for low-income and BIPOC communities, by providing the essential financial and legal infrastructure to manage and move integrated capital to BIPOC-led movement groups. We aim to advance racial, gender, and climate justice and a new economy where everyone thrives.

About the Opportunity: Reporting to the Executive Director, the Director of Development & Communications will design and drive fundraising and communications strategy, steward donor relationships, and build the systems needed to sustain and grow the Village’s impact, raising $1.2M+ annually.

KEY PRIORITIES DURING YOUR FIRST YEAR

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WHAT YOU WILL DO: 

WHO YOU ARE:

• Mission & Values Alignment. You believe in New Seneca Village’s mission to provide restorative residency experiences that invite leaders and healers to access expansive resources—time, space, nature, community, and consciousness—to sustain their collective visioning for a just future. 
• Institutional & Individual Giving Strategy. You bring a strong understanding of the philanthropic landscape and engage institutional funders and individual donors across the full lifecycle from prospecting and cultivation to solicitation and stewardship, building trusted, values-aligned partnerships that sustain and grow long-term revenue.
• Strategic Storytelling & Communications Leadership. You communicate with clarity and intention; crafting compelling grant proposals, Village and donor specific communications, and narratives that resonate across audiences, honor lived experience, and strengthen alignment and shared purpose around the Village’s mission and values.
• Entrepreneurial Leadership. You bring a builder mindset and implementer hands to a growth-stage organization, strengthening and operationalizing existing systems, navigating ambiguity, and moving between vision and execution to drive scale and impact.
• Proactive Project Management. You take initiative and own projects from start to finish, building clear roadmaps, anticipating needs, coordinating across stakeholders, and managing timelines, details, and follow-through to ensure consistent, high-quality execution across multiple priorities.
• Data-Informed Strategy & Continuous Learning. You ground your work in data, research, and feedback, using analysis and due diligence to inform decisions, identify patterns, and make strategic recommendations that strengthen fundraising, communications, and engagement over time.
• Collaborator & Co-Creator. You are a trusted and collaborative partner who co-creates with leadership; bringing thoughtful perspective, aligning around a shared vision, and moving work forward with both independence and accountability in service of the Village’s mission and long-term goals.
• Restoration & Healing-Centered Leadership. You embody and steward restoration, connection, and visioning not as side practices, but as foundational leadership modalities. 
• Executional Range & Depth. You operate fluidly across levels of work, contributing to both high-level strategy and the tactical execution required to bring it to life. You approach the work without hierarchy or ego—willing to lead vision-setting while also stepping into coordination, logistics, and detail-oriented tasks as needed to ensure momentum, cohesion, and results.

WORKING ENVIRONMENT: This is a fully remote position from anywhere within the United States. While relocation is not required, this role does require approximately 25% travel; this includes in-person residency experiences (a week long, 3-4 times per year).

COMPENSATION: Compensation is $90,000–$110,000, plus benefits and a performance-based bonus. This role includes a $15,000 bonus incentive tied to achieving the organization’s $800,000 fundraising goal by January 2028.

BENEFITS: Possibility Labs provides a comprehensive benefits package including medical, vision, and dental coverage effective on your start date, a 401(k) retirement plan, and generous paid time off comprising 20 vacation days, 14 standard holidays, 2 personal days, and 12 sick days annually.

In addition to the PL package, New Seneca Village offers a profoundly restorative work environment, including 15 vacation days aligned with our residency calendar and three weeklong holiday breaks each year to support collective rest and renewal.

About Our Selection Process: Our process includes three rounds, each offering opportunities for us to get to know one another. Candidates will not only share their experience and leadership, but also have space to “interview” the organization, ask questions, and assess mutual alignment with New Seneca Village’s mission and values.

• Round 1: Application submission and a one-way video interview (take your interview here) due by  Tuesday, April 21, 2026. Priority Deadline is April 17. This stage includes four interview questions, which candidates complete on their own time.
• Round 2: A live, 60-minute interview via Zoom with the Executive Director and Residency Ecosystem Director the week of May 4, 2026.
• Round 3: Final interviews are scheduled for Friday, May 15, 2026, via Zoom. This stage includes a 60-minute interview and a 60-minute Thought-Exercise Debrief & Reflection. Candidates who interview will receive a thought-exercise prompt to complete before their interview, as well as a $150 honorarium.

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