Epiphany School
Director of Development
Start Date: July 1, 2025
Co-ed, PK-5, Day School, 266 Students
3611 East Denny Way, Seattle, WA 98122
Director of Development Search for Epiphany School
Educators Collaborative is pleased to support the Director of Development search for Epiphany School. This retained search seeks a director to begin July 1, 2025.
About the School
With more than 60 years of history as a beloved and preeminent Seattle institution, Epiphany School is well positioned to thrive for the next 60. Enrolling over 260 students, Epiphany School is large enough to offer a broad spectrum of educational opportunities and small enough to maintain a close-knit community. The beautiful, historic campus is located in a quiet setting in central Seattle’s Madrona neighborhood. The school’s mission is to challenge and support all students to become confident, curious, and courageous learners through innovative teaching in a caring and inclusive environment. Epiphany strives to inspire every child to discover meaning and purpose in a life of learning and actively cultivate an awareness and respect for diversity in all forms. The school aims to create a positive, joyful, and inclusive community by embracing its values of Respect, Responsibility, and Resourcefulness.
About the Position
This is both a critical and exciting time to join the Epiphany School leadership team. The school enjoys strong enrollment demand, dedicated families, and an excellent institutional reputation. Epiphany School just completed a bold campus master plan that ensures the school’s learning spaces will facilitate highly personalized education for every student, support our exceptional faculty, and create opportunity for greater access to our school through enrollment growth. To fund this vision, the school will blend financing with an ambitious capital campaign, which is at the beginning of its leadership phase.
The Director of Development provides motivational leadership and expertise for a philanthropy program that supports the mission and strategic objectives of Epiphany School. This position oversees and leads Epiphany’s baseline giving, major giving, stewardship, and data services/analytics with the goal of building an increasingly successful comprehensive fundraising program.
The Director is responsible for the management and successful execution of the capital campaign. As a primary solicitor, the DOD personally manages a portfolio of major donor prospects and closes major gifts, while ensuring fundraising KPIs are met by all fundraisers and leadership volunteers.
A successful candidate for this role will be a seasoned development professional who has demonstrated experience managing a comprehensive fundraising program and team. They will also have direct experience with a capital campaign with a strong preference for candidates who have experience leading all or a major portion of a campaign at a Seattle-based school or large nonprofit.
Mission
Epiphany School challenges and supports all students to become confident, curious, and courageous learners through innovative teaching in a caring and inclusive environment.
How to Apply
The application deadline is February 24, 2025. We encourage candidates to reach out for a preliminary conversation before submitting their materials. The Search Committee expects to complete the search no later than April 2025 with a start date of July 1, 2025.
Interested candidates should submit the following materials in a single merged document:
- EC Candidate Summary Sheet (Contact Tracy Bennett)
- Letter of Interest addressed to the Search Committee
- Current résumé
- A writing sample relevant to advancement and fundraising, such as a campaign communication, donor letter, newsletter article, or blog post
- Contact information for five professional references with name, relationship, phone number, and email address of each (references will not be contacted without the candidate’s permission)
- EC Disclosure Form (contact Tracy Bennett)
Tracy Bennett, Partner, Educators Collaborative
Application Deadline: February 24, 2025
Listing Date: January 21, 2025
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