Director of Development & Communications

Since 1988 PVPLC has preserved more than 1,700 acres of open space on the Peninsula. This precious habitat and rare coastal landscape contribute to the quality of human life and provides valuable refuge for rare local animals and fauna. PVPLC’s crew of dedicated conservationists, naturalists, biologists, field technicians and education professionals as well as hundreds of its volunteers restore native habitat to support local and threatened species from extinction, some of which only exist on the Peninsula.

With more than 10,000 visitors a year to its two nature centers, PVPLC connects the wider Southern California community to this land for conservation education. To this end, PVPLC has brought over 4,000 students a year to the preserves for educational programs and docent-led walks on its more than 42 miles of trails. Many of these children are from under-served urban communities. With the support of the new director, PVPLC will grow its youth education initiatives and continue to contribute to the next generation of conservationists.

This role covers areas as diverse as individual, institutional, and corporate giving, organizational communications and events, public relations, private grant acquisition and management, and traditional and social media marketing. The Director collaborates with other department heads, the Board of Directors, and staff to design, plan and implement a fully integrated development and communications strategy. This includes annual campaigns, communications and marketing events and other activities.

With a new website in the works and an ever-growing online donor base, the position will be tasked with simultaneously stewarding a very loyal and valued donor base while planting PVPLC firmly in the digital age through optimizing a variety of media strategies that engage new donors and raise awareness of PVPLC’s mission and contributions.

Supported by a Communications Manager and Development Manager, this team provides a level of exemplary support that drives the achievement of the organization’s mission, financial objectives, and enhances and builds donor relations and brand awareness. The Director works with a highly diverse community of strategic partners in local government, corporate, and close-by county educational communities to achieve their objectives.

The organization currently works on a two-to-three-day hybrid model and is based in its new PV Peninsula headquarters. However, flexibility is required because of field work, meetings with donors and educational and municipal partners, mostly on the Peninsula.

A creative and strategic nonprofit leader, the ideal candidate thrives in a highly collegial, inclusive, and mission-focused environment. Their values of excellence, integrity, agility, resilience and passion for PVPLC’s work and preserving natural habitats enable them to quickly assimilate and contribute.

This individual has the experience and leadership skills to mentor and build upon their team’s capacity to support the organization's strategic fundraising and communications agenda and achieve its revenue goals. Together they are critical in scaling PVPLC’s initiatives by building new sources of revenues through new community alliances, expanding its educational reach and programs, and maintaining and growing new relationships with targeted, high-level external audiences, donors, foundations, and strategic partners.

With major gifts as a cornerstone of this program, this persuasive and skilled communicator works with prominent organizations and extraordinary individuals in the community, winning new and solidifying current supporters while playing a vital role in preserving some of California’s, and for that matter the country’s most beautiful coastal landscapes.