About Us

Orr Group believes that by working with leading and cutting-edge nonprofits, we can help solve the world’s most pressing challenges. Through our embedded partnership model, Orr Group supplies the people, resources, and custom approaches to drive missions forward, making us more than just a consultancy. Our services include strategy development and implementation, fundraising and event planning, campaign assessment and execution, talent acquisition and management, planned giving expertise, and leadership development. For the last 30+ years, we have partnered with an incredibly diverse and influential assembly of clientele to assist in generating revenue and leveraging resources more effectively, remaining flexible and nimble to ideate solutions in an ever-changing nonprofit landscape.

Visit our website at www.orrgroup.com to learn more about what we do and our impact on the sector.

Position Summary

Orr Group’s services are split between four practice areas: Advisory Services, Capacity Building, Donor Engagement, and Talent Management. The Donor Engagement practice area works in service of development teams, embedding our talent into our partner organizations to drive revenue. This practice area's service offerings include frontline fundraising with individual and institutional giving, board transformation, and interim development leadership.

Our Senior Directors lead client teams, developing and implementing strategies to help our clients meet their goals. They also assume a leadership and mentoring role within Orr Group.

Senior Directors may manage a combination of regional, national, and international clients. Depending on client needs, this position may require that up to 50% of time be spent on a client site. The Senior Director must be based the Washington Metro Area with availability to work onsite in a hybrid capacity.

Responsibilities

Each project at Orr Group is specially tailored and designed for the needs of that particular client. Generally, Senior Directors oversee project management, guide day-to-day account operations, drive teamwork strategies, and serve as the principal liaison with the client. They actively lead the work of the project as well as the data collection and analysis, report writing, and client presentations.

Senior Directors may be staffed in interim leadership capacities (e.g., interim Chief Development Officer, VP of Development, or Director of Major Gifts) for client organizations, in addition to advisory and embedded consulting engagements. In these roles, Senior Directors may also manage a donor portfolio directly and operate as a trusted member of the client's senior team from day one.

Additional responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Communicating effectively with a wide variety of audiences, including board members, C-suite, staff, donors, and outside advisors
Collaborating on client work with Orr Group team members, managing up and down
Overseeing day-to-day operations and fulfillment of contracted projects
Managing project teams and coordinating project work for others; serving as mentor and coach to team members
Serving in interim leadership roles for an organization
Holding a portfolio of donors on behalf of a client and supporting solicitations of major gifts
Facilitating and leading board retreats
Synthesizing and presenting information to clients
Discovering solutions and employing new and innovative ideas

Qualifications

10+ years of nonprofit sector experience with substantial depth in frontline fundraising (Major Gifts and Institutional Giving) and Development Leadership. Experience in Planned Giving, Campaigns, and Board Development is a plus.
Advanced fundraising acumen across the full donor lifecycle and range of gift types and sizes, from five-figure major gifts to complex six- and seven-figure principal and planned gifts, with demonstrated success engaging diverse donor types (individual, corporate, foundation, and institutional)
Direct, frontline fundraising experience, personally identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and closing gifts, not solely overseeing others who do