Women’s Lunch Place – Career & Employment Opportunities

Outreach Advocate

The Outreach Advocate engages with women at Women’s Lunch Place and other locations in need of services but who do not access traditional advocacy. Their role is to develop trusting relationships with women who are struggling with substance use, housing, immigration, physical and mental illnesses, and other challenges, and to accompany each woman on her path to a healthier and happier life. The Outreach Advocate works closely with direct care staff, housing advocates, community health workers, and external partners.

WLP Advocates are responsive to a diverse and challenging guest community by being flexible to guests’ needs, identifying how best to achieve short and long-term goals, recommending and offering guests the tools and support to solve their problems, effectively planning the closing of cases and supporting women through this transition, and providing appropriate follow-up assistance. Advocacy staff actively work with staff and volunteers to engage guests and coordinate services according to our integrated model of care, helping vulnerable women gain access to housing, mental health services, substance use disorder treatment, and other critical services.

Director of Annual Giving

The Director of Annual Giving will lead the expansion and integration of annual giving programming for Women’s Lunch Place (WLP), building on a donor base of 5,000 individuals who currently contribute $3M+ to WLP’s mission in the form of annual gifts and events. The incumbent will develop and deploy new strategies to increase dollars and donors, strengthening the pipeline of prospective supporters who are interested in financially contributing to WLP mission throughout its upcoming campaign. The Director focuses on managing a portfolio of mid-tier prospects (rated <$50K) while supervising the annual giving team to actively grow the tiers of WLP’s annual fund through their own portfolio management and through direct response marketing, annual events, and related strategies.

The Director of Annual Giving will join WLP at an inflection point as the organization moves forward with the quiet phase of an ambitious fundraising campaign. The incumbent embraces goal-oriented outcomes as an entrepreneurial, creative thinker who is passionate about the fundraising potential of WLP. This position builds and expands relationships with constituents in ways that have a quantifiable impact on philanthropic achievement for WLP. They will have a proven track record in fundraising or a closely related field of expertise, and will possess outstanding interpersonal competencies, the ability to effectively manage staff and projects, and be highly motivated, organized and detail oriented.