Director of Development Trinity Church Boston, MA http://trinitychurchboston.org/
Send Nominations or Cover Letter and Resume to: Anne Norton Search Director 617-262-1102, ext. 212 [email protected]
The Opportunity
Trinity Church, an Episcopal parish, is a thriving Christian community in the heart of Boston. Trinity Church is well known for its spiritually engaged parish community, its iconic and historic building designed by H.H. Richardson, and its commitment to serving the greater needs of those in the parish and beyond the Church walls. Parish members seek to encounter the holy together and stand as visible witnesses of God's love for the world through common worship and shared ministries. Trinity Church is actively involved in service to the community, pastoral care, programs for children and youth, and Christian education for all ages.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 1 Trinity Church is looking for an experienced fundraising professional to lead the annual stewardship, planned giving, and capital campaign efforts of the parish. The ideal candidate will bring a personal spiritual connection to the mission of Trinity Church, as well as impeccable development skills.
Candidates who have proven experience leading a development office; creating and executing strategic initiatives (including major and planned giving programs); cultivating relationships across a wide spectrum of donors and volunteers; and refining and implementing a campaign plan will succeed in this role. Candidates who are intellectually and emotionally astute; who are gracious and self-confident with high-level donors; and who bring a real and relatable style to their interactions with individuals affiliated with the Church will thrive in this position.
The staff, clergy, and members of Trinity Church are smart, talented, hardworking individuals who are steeped in a commitment to the church and to a Christian life. They strive for excellence in their work, and function in a collaborative, “roll up your sleeves” culture. Candidates who offer the unique blend of professional experience, spiritual commitment, and collegial approach that the role requires are strongly encouraged to apply.
Position Overview – Director of Development
In this full-time role, the Director of Development will oversee all activities to achieve the goals encompassing the annual stewardship pledge campaign, major gifts, planned gifts, and the capital campaign. The Director of Development will develop and implement a comprehensive development strategy that reflects the Church’s core value of stewardship, and will serve as a member of the Church’s nine- member senior leadership team, comprised of five clergy and four senior lay staff members.
The Director of Development will partner with the Rector, the Vicar, the Senior Parish Administrator, and Church leaders to execute a complex and sophisticated fundraising plan that will inspire parishioners to share their gifts of time, talent, and resources for the ongoing sustainability of the church and to support the full realization of Trinity’s faith-based programs and services. S/He will also work closely with several lay leadership committees involved in parish fundraising programs, and will bring exceptional interpersonal skills in working across the dynamic and diverse perspectives of the parish community.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 2 Responsibilities
Management and Operations: Lead the ministry of stewardship. Develop a comprehensive strategy and plan to achieve annual and multi-year development goals. Manage and support a small staff including an Assistant Director of Stewardship (focused on the annual pledge campaign) and a part-time Development Assistant who will be responsible for maintaining the parishioner record database among other duties. Monitor and report regularly on progress against the development goals, including statistical analysis. Strengthen development operations systems, including use of the Raiser’s Edge database. Support the professional growth of team members through active management, identification of professional development opportunities and the annual review process.
Parishioner Engagement: Work with the Stewardship Committee, the Planned Giving Committee, and various Capital Campaign Committees to engage all members in achieving annual and multi-year development goals. With the chair(s), build the effectiveness of the committee. Participate in monthly Vestry meetings (equivalent to a Board of Directors). With the support of the Rector and other clergy, help teach faithful stewardship and help others to grow in generosity leading by example. Help engage and support donor and parishioner relationships. Be faithfully present at Sunday services and programs as the primary day to engage with parishioners at large.
Qualifications
10+ years of professional experience in a nonprofit organization, preferably faith-based, with demonstrated success in individual fundraising and donor relations. Demonstrated success in a development role with significant managerial and organizational responsibilities, including the ability to construct, articulate, and implement an annual strategic development plan. Strong analytical skills with a demonstrated bias for gathering and interpreting data. Working knowledge of Raiser’s Edge a plus. Excellent communication skills, both written and oral. Ability to develop strong relationships with people from a wide range of backgrounds.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 3 Self-directed, professional and resourceful style, the ability to work independently and as a team player, to take initiative, and to manage multiple tasks and projects. Active Christian faith, preferably in the Episcopal Church. Willingness to become an actively engaged member of the parish. Bachelor's degree required.
Trinity Church
Trinity Church is a parish that is vigorously living the Christian faith in this time of transition in our culture. In an era when churches are struggling and often shrinking, Trinity is called to be a place of faithfulness, vision, and hope for spreading of Christ’s love. Parishioners at Trinity are blessed with remarkable gifts – its location at the heart of Boston, a building of historic beauty, a congregation of earnest seekers and disciples, and a profound sense of call to serve.
Trinity Church is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. An anchor of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, Trinity Church serves a magnet for parishioners from all parts of the city and a large portion of the eastern part of the state. The average Sunday attendance at worship is 890, and services are offered four times on Sunday and three times during the week. There are five ordained clergy and 31 lay staff members. The church also has a subsidiary, Trinity Boston Foundation, which oversees its own programs, budget, and employees, including development staff.
Trinity Church was founded in 1733 as one of three original Church of England parishes in Boston, and will celebrate its 300th anniversary in 2033. The 150th anniversary of H.H. Richardson’s church building will be marked in 2027; Trinity Church is widely considered to be his finest work. The murals and painted decorations inside are by John La Farge and much of the fine stained glass is by La Farge, Edward Burne- Jones and William Morris. Trinity is consistently ranked as one of America's ten most significant architectural landmarks, and stands as one of Boston’s most popular and enduring visitor attractions, welcoming more than 80,000 people through its doors each year.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 4 In addition to providing a home for worship, the parish is actively involved in service to others, and offers an array of opportunities to engage members, serve the larger community, and foster a faith-based environment that embraces social justice.
Worship and Music
Worship is at the heart of life at Trinity. In it, parishioners find the source, the call, and the empowerment for the three-fold pilgrimage that shapes their lives together in Christ: the journey inward to find and be found by God, the journey together to find and be found by their sisters and brothers, and the journey outward to offer what they have and be in service to their neighbors and the world. For many, the express route to an encounter with God is through music. At Trinity, the hope and expectation is to encounter God also in the eyes, hearts, and voices of all those with whom parishioners make music – whether in the pew or in the choir. The Church is faithful to its heritage of vibrant sacred music.
Care and Support
Healing – spiritual healing, some call it – is the goal and objective toward which God moves. God desires to bring in the Kingdom; He continually moves toward the time when the great wounds of creation – injustice, oppression, degradation, and enmity – will be healed. God calls each member to both personal healing and to collaboration in the renewal of creation. Resources at Trinity for those in need include pastoral and Eucharistic visits, as well as various support groups.
Community Life
Fellowship was at the heart of the matter during the earliest days of the Church. Early Christians shared in the apostles’ teachings, broke bread, prayed, worshiped, and ate meals together. Life for the early Church was not just about spending life with one another, but spending life on one another. Trinity Church wishes for the same in its parish, and the community is made up of many fellowship groups that provide opportunities to share common life and grow together in faith.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 5 Social Justice and Outreach
In the baptismal covenant, people of faith are asked to make several commitments. Each time a new person is baptized into the faith, those agreements are reaffirmed and among the covenants that are joined are:
"Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself?" "Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?" To each, we reply, "I will, with God's help."
Book of Common Prayer, p. 305
Trinity focuses on social issues that impact Boston, the country, and the world, and strives to put compassion into action around social justice issues of violence, racism, education, hunger, housing, and homelessness.
Christian Education
"Christians are made, not born," said the early Church theologian Tertullian just before the year 200 A.D., and it is every bit as true today as it was then. Parishioners may become Christians at Baptism, but the "Christening" of their lives is a lifelong task and lies at the center of the Church's mission. A variety of opportunities for learning are offered at Trinity throughout the program year for adults, children, and families, and activities range from classes to lectures to ongoing religious instruction.
Art and History
Architects, architectural historians, and critics consider that Trinity Church is a masterpiece of American architecture. Dedicated in 1877, Trinity presented a bold, fresh new face and feeling for ecclesiastical architecture in America. The Church continues to be heralded today as a celebrated example of "Richardsonian Romanesque" design, named after its architect, H. H. Richardson. Art & Architecture Programs at Trinity illuminates the history and detail of the building and enhances the experiences of the many, many visitors to Trinity each year.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 6 Trinity Boston Foundation
Trinity Boston Foundation, a nonprofit organization, strives to unlock opportunity and change the odds for the youth of Boston. The Foundation’s social service programs have impacted the lives of hundreds of Boston youth through programs that build strong, safe, and healthy communities and empower youth to access opportunities. As a separately incorporated subsidiary of Trinity Church, the Foundation leverages the resources of the Church on behalf of its mission and the Church’s priorities.
Development Overview
Trinity's annual operating budget is $6 million and is supported by the annual giving of its parishioners and augmented by an endowment draw. Its membership spans an estimated 2,000 households, and approximately 800 households make annual pledges resulting in parishioner contributions of $3 million each year.
Parish members are intelligent and highly engaged, and the most generous donors give anonymously and are not motivated by public acknowledgments or lavish events. As a group, parishioners are focused on the betterment of the parish, the city, and the world and are motivated by the Church’s high impact enterprise and by their deep and overriding identity as Christians and their passion for the Church.
The immediate development priority for Trinity Church is the launch and execution of a significant capital campaign. The initial framework for the capital campaign has been built, and the Director of Development will be the key driver in refining and executing the campaign strategy. The Development team at Trinity is comprised of one full-time Assistant Director, a part-time Development Assistant, and the Director of Development. The Director of Development will serve as a skilled strategist, an expert executor, and a practiced team player who will motivate and mentor the staff and the Church’s enthusiastic volunteers to successfully leverage the Church’s resources to reach the ambitious goals of the campaign.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 7 In addition to overseeing the campaign’s key tasks, the Director of Development will guide the planning for the Church’s next stage of sustainability: the development of a major annual gift program and a distinct planned giving program.
Leadership
The Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III Rector
The Rev. Samuel T. Lloyd III has been serving as the Rector of historic Trinity Church since 2012, a position that he had also served from 1993-2004. Sam’s work focuses on preaching, teaching, and developing a Christian community. Sam is also engaged as a principal party in raising money to support the operations of the Church.
From 2005 to 2011, Sam was the ninth dean of Washington National Cathedral, where he was charged with leadership of what is widely referred to as “the national house of prayer.” He began his ministry as an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville in the early 1980s while also serving as assistant to the rector and chaplain at St. Paul’s Memorial Church in Charlottesville. In 1984 he became rector of the Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer in Chicago, Illinois. He also served as chaplain of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Sam holds a Masters of Divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Virginia. He also holds an M.A. degree in English Literature from Georgetown University and received his B.A. from the University of Mississippi. He has received honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees from the University of the South and Virginia Theological Seminary.
Sam has taught in seminaries and has frequently spoken at conferences and conventions. He has preached on the “Protestant Hour” on radio and offered courses in the area of Christianity and literature, including Flannery O’Connor, Dante, contemporary fiction, C. S. Lewis, and the parables. His most recent publication is the book Soundings for the Journey: Sermons from the National Cathedral.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 8 The Rev. William W. Rich Vicar
The Rev. Dr. William W. Rich, Vicar, has been serving at Trinity Church since June 2005. In the years immediately preceding his arrival at Trinity, Boston, Bill served as the Interim Rector in three different parishes: St. Paul’s, Doylestown, PA, Christ Church, Bronxville, NY, and St. David’s, Kinnelon, NJ. For twelve years, he was the Chaplain to Goucher College, where he also taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion. From 1980-1987, Bill also served in parishes in the Baltimore area in which he grew up. A skilled teacher, Bill taught pastoral psychotherapists in training at the Blanton-Peale Graduate Institute in NYC, and from 2006 through 2011, he taught in the Psychiatry and Religion Program at Union Theological Seminary in NYC. Bill also studied in the Psychiatry and Religion Program at Union, where he earned his STM (1995), M.Phil. (2001), and Ph.D. (2002). Bill received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Williams College, and his M.Div. from Yale Divinity School. He also trained as a spiritual director at the Shalem Institute in Washington, DC, and for ten years, he co-led a Benedictine Week of Prayer with Suzanne Farnham, the founder of Listening Hearts Ministries.
Sarah W. Wilcox Senior Parish Administrator
Sarah Wilcox has been serving as the Senior Parish Administrator since 2014, a position in which she also served from 1994 through 2006, when she developed and managed the infrastructure to support the church during one of the most robust growth periods in Trinity’s history under the leadership of Sam Lloyd. Prior to rejoining the staff, she was a Senior Vice President at Bank of America, where she worked with colleges as well as arts and religious organizations. Prior to originally joining Trinity’s staff, Sarah was a Vice President with The Boston Company, overseeing their Community Reinvestment Act business. Early in her banking career, she established and ran Bank of New England’s Non-Profit Lending Group.
Sarah has been a parishioner of Trinity Church since the 1980’s and served on the Church’s Vestry prior to joining the staff. She currently serves on two Episcopal related foundation boards, one as President, and North Hill Communities, a non-profit continuing care retirement community. Sarah is a graduate of Smith College.
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 9 Peter Lawrence Senior Warden
Peter Lawrence has been a member of Trinity since 1999. During that time, he has served as co-chair of the Stewardship Committee, Chairman of the Nominating Committee, a board member of Trinity Boston Foundation, and since 2011, as Senior Warden. Pete is President of the biotechnology company, ArQule, Inc., and is a board member and Vice Chairman of The Greater Boston Food Bank.
Anne Phillips Ogilby Junior Warden
Anne Phillips Ogilby was baptized and married at Trinity and returned to Trinity in 1996 after a decade at a suburban church, drawn back by the joy and beauty of the services and the great youth and acolyte programs for her two children. She has served as a board member and clerk of the Trinity Boston Foundation. She is also a Vestry member of her summer church in Maine and the board chair of the Cotting School in Lexington. Anne is a partner at the law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP.
Louise Packard Executive Director Trinity Boston Foundation
Louise Packard is the founding executive director of the Trinity Boston Foundation, having previously held senior development roles at Trinity Church, Harvard Business School, Stanford Business School and the Central Park Conservancy (NY). Early in her career she served as associate director of undergraduate admissions at Yale University. Louise was a featured speaker in a 2011 lecture series on Social Entrepreneurship at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco and contributed a chapter for the ensuing book, The Real Problem Solvers; Social Entrepreneurs in America (Stanford University Press). Louise received her BA from Yale University and an MA in English Literature from Middlebury College. She is currently on the boards of Roxbury Presbyterian Social Impact Center, SEED-NY, and Positive Coaching Alliance (Boston Chapter).
TRINITY CHURCH BACKGROUNDER | 10 Background Checks
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To learn more, call Anne Norton, Search Director at 617-262-1102, ext. 212 or send nominations or cover letter and resume to [email protected]. All inquiries will be held in confidence.
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