Career Opportunities at OHF
Director of Development – Operation Healing Forces
The mission of Operation Healing Forces (OHF) is to serve the needs of America’s wounded, ill, injured, fallen Special Operations Forces service members, veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors through a suite of programs that promote long-term mental, physical, emotional, and fiscal well-being.
Through therapeutic retreats, OHF provides a safe and trusted environment where SOF warriors, veterans, spouses, and caregivers can step away from the demands of daily life, reconnect with one another, and begin their healing journey. These retreats foster meaningful peer connections, help participants realize they are not alone in their challenges, and encourage seeking help as a sign of strength, not stigma. The combination of peer-to-peer support, trauma-informed care, and recreational therapies creates opportunities for genuine bonding, renewed relationships, and lasting hope.
The Special Operations Additional Resources (SOAR) program offers personalized assistance tailored to each individual’s or family’s needs, including financial planning, employment resources, caregiver and alumni support, legal guidance, and specialized transition assistance.
Through the Immediate Needs Program, OHF provides direct crisis support to SOF service members, veterans, and their families. This includes medical emergency travel, adaptive and medical equipment, funeral and memorial costs, essential needs, and other urgent support not covered by government resources.
With every program, OHF’s focus remains clear: to strengthen the SOF community by creating long-lasting impacts on mental, physical, emotional, and financial well-being.
OHF seeks a highly motivated, purpose-driven professional with extensive experience in the nonprofit development space to serve as its Director of Development. The individual selected for this key position will be responsible for the strategic planning, execution, and evaluation of fundraising, donor stewardship, and external relationship efforts to achieve growth of resources to support OHF’s vital mission. The Development Director works closely with the Chief Executive Officer to provide leadership, support, training, and direction for the development team’s major gifts, planned giving, events, corporate and foundation relations, grants, campaigns, communications, and marketing efforts.
Responsibilities Include:
- Design, implement, and analyze comprehensive strategies for development efforts to manage the stewardship of corporate, foundation, government, and individual relationships during all phases of the giving cycle.
- Meet or exceed annual fundraising goal and other Key Performance Indicators.
- Develop an annual operations budget and revenue projection. Maintain monthly revenue and expense tracking in accordance with approved budget.
- Analyze and report to Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors on internal and external trends regarding individual, corporate, foundation, and government funding, as well as key external relations activities.
- Conduct weekly meeting with development department to discuss on-going projects, strategy, and upcoming priorities.
- Oversee accountability, quality, and performance of deliverables, grant tracking, and reporting to grant and sponsorship partners.
- Work closely with program teams to gather and analyze short- and long-term program impacts to utilize in grant reporting and case for support appeals.
- Work with OHF financial and administrative teams to ensure all community, donor, financial, and industry standards and inspection reports are thoroughly completed.
- See Position Overview, linked above, for a complete listing of responsibilities.
Ideal Candidate:
- BA / BS degree – a CFRE or CFRM certification is highly desired, but not required. Additional related professional development and fundraising training, and/or advanced experience in a related field, may be substituted for a degree and/or certification.
- A minimum of 4 to 5 years of progressive nonprofit fundraising experience and at least three years in a senior position directly overseeing staff. 7+ years of experience is highly desirable.
- Prior success raising significant funds, building and stewarding strong relationships, and maintaining 7+ figure portfolios.
- Demonstrated experience managing a high-performing development team.
- A belief in OHF’s mission. An understanding of, or experience with, the U.S. Military, and especially Special Operations Forces, is a plus.
- Top-tier program management skills.
- Ability to multi-task, establish priorities within competing requirements, and meet simultaneous deadlines without diminishing work quality.
- Exceptional communications and team leadership expertise.
- Ability to make decisions independently, combined with an ability to work collaboratively.
- Willingness and ability to travel across the United States and work occasional weekends and evenings.
- Established proficiency in Donor Relations software platforms (Salesforce), Microsoft Office, Google Suite Applications, and virtual conferencing platforms.
- Access to reliable transportation.
- Successful completion of a background check.
Location:
Tampa, Florida. Currently, this position is eligible to conditionally operate on a hybrid schedule with Monday and Friday designated remote workdays, and Tuesday–Thursday as in-office days. The hybrid work schedule is subject to change. Some travel is required.
DRiWaterstone is proud to lead this search on behalf of Operation Healing Forces.
