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.

Chief Philanthropy Officer

Women’s Lunch Place is seeking a visionary leader with an accomplished background in transformational philanthropy who can join the organization as its Chief Philanthropy Officer (CPO), a newly established executive leadership role, at a pivotal time in its 40+ year history.

The ideal candidate will have partnered with philanthropists and organizational leaders to fulfill the intentions and needs of both parties. As an external-facing member of WLP’s leadership team, the incumbent will report directly to and work in close unison with the CEO and in close collaboration with the Chief Program Officer and Chief Strategy Officer to articulate the organization’s mission, vision, values, and needs while cultivating strong relationships with philanthropists on behalf of WLP. With a track record of securing major gifts (six/seven figures and greater), the CPO will help WLP expand its extraordinary positive impact on the lives of thousands of women each year by marshalling the resources needed to build and augment high-impact programs.

Building on a solid foundation of charitable support totaling $5M-$6M annually from 5,000+ individuals and institutional funders, the CPO will add a new level of philanthropic engagement through the development of a transformational giving program. As the organization gears up for a comprehensive campaign, the CPO will also lead an expansion of the development team and oversee the implementation of a visionary fundraising business plan.

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.