ECHO International

Director of Advancement

With a primary focus on donor strategy, the Director of Advancement is part of the Executive Team and is responsible for leading the advancement team in effective fund raising, communication, and brand management efforts. This includes strategically, creatively, and sustainably attracting major gifts and grants, direct-mail, and electronic donations, planned gifts, congregational and community support, special event revenues and positive public relations.

ECHO is a Christian organization, working to fight hunger by multiplying agricultural knowledge and skills through trainings, conferences, and technical resource creation and sharing opportunities. Based in North Fort Myers, FL, ECHO works globally through a diverse network of over 17,500 organizations and individuals and its three Regional Impact Centers (Thailand, Tanzania, and Burkina Faso). ECHO equips and empowers a diverse network of farmers, NGOs, missionaries, and development workers with innovations, ideas, techniques, skills, and seeds to improve food security and the livelihoods of the most vulnerable.

For more information about our organization, please see www.echonet.org and www.echocommunity.org.