Company Profile: Founded in 1947, CCS is dedicated to advancing charitable organisations through philanthropic growth. For more than six decades, CCS has played a vital role in the expansion and empowerment of the non-profit sector. Headquartered in New York, with offices in London and Dublin and fund-raising directors located in Paris, Geneva, Rome and throughout Europe, the company’s projects span the globe in cities and towns around the world.

CCS’s signature service is the design and implementation of major capital, endowment, and comprehensive campaigns. CCS provides full-time, resident fund-raising counsel and campaign management services to the most recognisable brands in philanthropy, serving over 300 organisations a year. We have counseled leading academic institutions, national and international charities, medical centres, religious bodies, civic and human service organisations, and cultural institutions in pioneering fund-raising efforts. CCS fund-raising goals under consulting and management total billions of dollars worldwide.

Job Description: Associate and Executive Directors provide full-time, on-site fund-raising and management consulting services. Directors work collaboratively with CCS executives and client leaders to identify, design, and implement management and development methodologies to prepare for and conduct successful fund-raising campaigns. Responsibilities and client assignments depend on a proven track record of success, demonstrated ability, and sustained initiative. Client assignments may be in France, Switzerland the United Kingdom or elsewhere in Europe.

Typical CCS assignments may include:

Conduct Campaign Planning Studies and Development Assessments:

• Conduct personal interviews with key internal and external constituents

• Track quantitative and qualitative findings

• Analyse campaign feasibility and case for support; development organisation, structure, and strategies; staffing, resources, and budget; volunteer structure; and, donor information systems

• Prepare written analysis and recommendations

• Present findings to institutional leaders

Direct Capital Campaigns:

• Serve as onsite counsel on a major institutional campaign

• Develop campaign plans and design campaign strategies

• Craft individual cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies

• Prepare all written campaign documents, operating materials, and publications

• Set campaign direction and manage day-to-day campaign operations

• Oversee prospective donor development (identification, research, evaluation, tracking)

• Direct campaign meetings with staff, Board members, and volunteers

• Supervise client staff

• Lead volunteer committees, activities, and training programmes

• Brief institutional leaders on campaign progress

Qualifications: The firm seeks talented professionals with capital campaign or major gifts experience as well as executives with transferable consulting, communications, marketing, and strategic planning experience to join our dynamic consulting team. Other qualifications include:

• Philanthropic values and a commitment to service

• Superior written and oral communication skills

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively with all levels of staff, volunteers, donors, and prospective donors

• Outstanding organisational skills and ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously

• Computer proficiency

• Professional demeanour

• Strong work ethic, enthusiasm, and confidence

• Ability to temporarily relocate for regional assignments required

• European work status required

• Fluency in English required and French language skills preferred

Our Directors report the best aspects of working for CCS are the diversity of projects, relationships with leading non-profits and philanthropists, and performance based career paths. CCS offers competitive benefits, a dynamic training programme, resources, career advancement, mentoring, and networking opportunities. Outstanding candidates bring a diverse background, an interest in philanthropy, and ambition.