Okay, so one of my pet peeves about looking for new work:
EVERYBODY'S DAMN SUGGESTIONS.
I am the Director of Development and Communications for a smallish nonprofit org with a budget of around half a million dollars.
My ideal job titles for my next job are:
- Director of Development and Communications
- Director of Development
- Director of Communications
- Director of Alumni Relations (At a private school)
- Associate/Assistant Director of Annual Giving, Donor Relations, Donor Stewardship, etc, etc (At a university)
If I take a step down in title, it needs to be for a larger organization, like a university, or something the size of the Human Rights Campaign or the Red Cross.
Please, friends of Senusret I, do not send me jobs with the title Operations Manager. Even if they have given that job fundraising responsibilities, it is because they are being cheap and want their secretary to write grants.
Also do not send me jobs I am not qualified for. Yes, the salary would be AWESOME, but I do not yet have ten years of fundraising experience. Have we met?
And just because I am a writer does not mean I want to be an editor in a communications department. I write novels.
Ultimately, if I stay in development, I really want to work with people, not complex and political government grants.
End rant.