Senior Fundraising Copywriter

Location: Fully remote from the United States, with occasional travel for client meetings, industry events, or company gatherings.

Salary: $85,000–$90,000 annually, commensurate with experience.

Company

Avalon Consulting is a full-service fundraising marketing agency serving nonprofit organizations focused on environmental conservation, social justice, cultural arts, and other meaningful causes.

What you will do

• Lead writing for a portfolio of nonprofit clients across acquisition, renewal, appeal, newsletter, email, digital, and donor cultivation campaigns.
• Develop compelling, strategic, mission-driven, and donor-centered messaging.
• Shape messaging strategy and contribute to messaging audits, creative kickoffs, brainstorming sessions, and client meetings.
• Serve as a trusted creative partner across multiple clients and projects.
• Strengthen the Copy team by sharing expertise, coaching colleagues, and contributing to processes and tools.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience writing fundraising copy across multiple campaign types.
• Demonstrated expertise in direct mail and digital fundraising communications, including acquisition, appeals, renewals, cultivation, newsletters, and email.
• Strong creative concepting, editing, proofreading, grammar, quality-control, and donor-centered messaging skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, shifting timelines, and tight deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Confidence participating in client meetings and creative discussions as a fundraising copy subject-matter expert.
• Ability to work remotely from the United States.

Nice to have

• Experience coaching, mentoring, and sharing knowledge with other writers and colleagues.
• Strong critical thinking, creative problem-solving, organization, planning, adaptability, and curiosity.
• Comfort with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, virtual collaboration tools, and project management tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Strategic, analytical, innovative, collaborative, and mission-driven work environment.
• Flexible remote work with support for work-life balance and professional development.
• Employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance.
• Generous paid leave, remote work reimbursements, employer-paid life and disability insurance, and a safe harbor 401(k) plan.
• Occasional opportunities to meet for team and client meetings.

Hiring process

• Submit a resume, cover letter, and writing samples.