Join the DO team

Remote role | Nashville-area candidate
$55,000–$65,000 + benefits
Fundraising experience not required

About Design Outreach

Design Outreach is a Christian nonprofit that engineers life-sustaining technologies for people living in extreme poverty.

Through solutions such as LifePump™ and MaxLife™, we have already helped provide safe, reliable water to more than 1 million people. Our goal is to reach 10 million people by 2030.

We’re looking for talented people who can build relationships, communicate a compelling mission, and help others invest in meaningful, lasting impact.

The Opportunity

We’re hiring a highly relational, motivated communicator to join our Development team in the Nashville market.

This role focuses on building relationships with current and prospective donors, sharing the impact of Design Outreach, and helping people find meaningful ways to support the mission.

You do not need previous fundraising experience.

We are especially interested in early-career candidates and recent graduates who are strong communicators, relationship-builders, and self-starters. Relevant experience may come from communications, marketing, sales, recruiting, account management, customer success, admissions, ministry, community engagement, journalism, internships, or campus leadership.

Design Outreach will provide fundraising training and coaching.

What You’ll Do

• Build authentic relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Meet with donors and prospects in the Nashville area and beyond.
• Learn each donor’s interests, passions, and philanthropic goals.
• Share compelling stories about Design Outreach’s mission and impact.
• Identify new prospective donors through referrals, networking, and research.
• Prepare and present giving opportunities and proposals.
• Learn how to confidently and graciously make significant financial asks.
• Maintain strong follow-up and accurate donor records in Salesforce.
• Work toward annual fundraising goals, including growing the number of donors giving $10,000 or more.

What Success Looks Like

Over time, you will be expected to:

• Complete approximately 12 donor or prospect meetings per month.
• Build a strong pipeline of prospective donors.
• Develop trusted, long-term donor relationships.
• Work toward an annual fundraising goal of $350,000+.
• Develop the skills and confidence to secure significant gifts, including six-figure commitments.

Who Will Thrive in This Role

You may be a strong fit if you are:

• Naturally relational and energized by meeting new people.
• A strong communicator and good listener.
• Organized, dependable, and strong with follow-through.
• Comfortable initiating conversations and building new relationships.
• Motivated by goals and accountability.
• Mature and comfortable interacting with business leaders, families, and community members.
• Passionate about helping people and addressing global poverty.
• Excited to grow professionally in a mission-driven organization.

Faith & Mission Alignment

Design Outreach is a Christ-centered organization.

Candidates should support Design Outreach’s Christian mission, be comfortable working with donors and ministry partners motivated by their faith in Jesus Christ, and be aligned with our core values of excellence, faith, compassion, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Early-career candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Prior fundraising experience is not required.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated initiative, maturity, organization, and follow-through.
• Comfort using technology and learning CRM systems.
• Salesforce experience is helpful but not required.
• Ability to travel approximately 4–7 nights per month.
• Willingness to participate in approximately one international trip per year.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while staying closely connected to the team.

Compensation & Benefits

• $55,000–$65,000 salary
• Benefits package
• Remote work
• Professional coaching and fundraising training
• Significant growth opportunity
• The opportunity to use your career to help transform communities around the world

Location

This is a remote position, but the Development Representative should live in or near the Nashville metropolitan area because local donor relationships and in-person meetings are an important part of the role.

Remote role | Houston-area candidate
$55,000–$65,000 + benefits
Fundraising experience not required

About Design Outreach

Design Outreach is a Christian nonprofit that engineers life-sustaining technologies for people living in extreme poverty.

Through solutions such as LifePump™ and MaxLife™, we have already helped provide safe, reliable water to more than 1 million people. Our goal is to reach 10 million people by 2030.

We’re looking for talented people who can build relationships, communicate a compelling mission, and help others invest in meaningful, lasting impact.

The Opportunity

We’re hiring a highly relational, motivated communicator to join our Development team in the Houston, Texas, market.

This role focuses on building relationships with current and prospective donors, sharing the impact of Design Outreach, and helping people find meaningful ways to support the mission.

You do not need previous fundraising experience.

We are especially interested in early-career candidates and recent graduates who are strong communicators, relationship-builders, and self-starters. Relevant experience may come from communications, marketing, sales, recruiting, account management, customer success, admissions, ministry, community engagement, journalism, internships, or campus leadership.

Design Outreach will provide fundraising training and coaching.

What You’ll Do

• Build authentic relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Meet with donors and prospects in the Houston area and beyond.
• Learn each donor’s interests, passions, and philanthropic goals.
• Share compelling stories about Design Outreach’s mission and impact.
• Identify new prospective donors through referrals, networking, and research.
• Prepare and present giving opportunities and proposals.
• Learn how to confidently and graciously make significant financial asks.
• Maintain strong follow-up and accurate donor records in Salesforce.
• Work toward annual fundraising goals, including growing the number of donors giving $10,000 or more.

What Success Looks Like

Over time, you will be expected to:

• Complete approximately 12 donor or prospect meetings per month.
• Build a strong pipeline of prospective donors.
• Develop trusted, long-term donor relationships.
• Work toward an annual fundraising goal of $350,000+.
• Develop the skills and confidence to secure significant gifts, including six-figure commitments.

Who Will Thrive in This Role

You may be a strong fit if you are:

• Naturally relational and energized by meeting new people.
• A strong communicator and good listener.
• Organized, dependable, and strong with follow-through.
• Comfortable initiating conversations and building new relationships.
• Motivated by goals and accountability.
• Mature and comfortable interacting with business leaders, families, and community members.
• Passionate about helping people and addressing global poverty.
• Excited to grow professionally in a mission-driven organization.

Faith & Mission Alignment

Design Outreach is a Christ-centered organization.

Candidates should support Design Outreach’s Christian mission, be comfortable working with donors and ministry partners motivated by their faith in Jesus Christ, and be aligned with our core values of excellence, faith, compassion, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Early-career candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Prior fundraising experience is not required.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated initiative, maturity, organization, and follow-through.
• Comfort using technology and learning CRM systems.
• Salesforce experience is helpful but not required.
• Ability to travel approximately 4–7 nights per month.
• Willingness to participate in approximately one international trip per year.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while staying closely connected to the team.

Compensation & Benefits

• $55,000–$65,000 salary
• Benefits package
• Remote work
• Professional coaching and fundraising training
• Significant growth opportunity
• The opportunity to use your career to help transform communities around the world

Location

This is a remote position, but the Development Representative should live in or near the Houston metropolitan area because local donor relationships and in-person meetings are an important part of the role.

Remote role | Indianapolis OR Grand Rapids-area candidate
$55,000–$65,000 + benefits
Fundraising experience not required

About Design Outreach

Design Outreach is a Christian nonprofit that engineers life-sustaining technologies for people living in extreme poverty.

Through solutions such as LifePump™ and MaxLife™, we have already helped provide safe, reliable water to more than 1 million people. Our goal is to reach 10 million people by 2030.

We’re looking for talented people who can build relationships, communicate a compelling mission, and help others invest in meaningful, lasting impact.

The Opportunity

We’re hiring a highly relational, motivated communicator to join our Development team in either the Indianapolis, Indiana, or Grand Rapids, Michigan, market.

This role focuses on building relationships with current and prospective donors, sharing the impact of Design Outreach, and helping people find meaningful ways to support the mission.

You do not need previous fundraising experience.

We are especially interested in early-career candidates and recent graduates who are strong communicators, relationship-builders, and self-starters. Relevant experience may come from communications, marketing, sales, recruiting, account management, customer success, admissions, ministry, community engagement, journalism, internships, or campus leadership.

Design Outreach will provide fundraising training and coaching.

What You’ll Do

• Build authentic relationships with current and prospective donors.
• Meet with donors and prospects in the Indianapolis or Grand Rapids area and beyond.
• Learn each donor’s interests, passions, and philanthropic goals.
• Share compelling stories about Design Outreach’s mission and impact.
• Identify new prospective donors through referrals, networking, and research.
• Prepare and present giving opportunities and proposals.
• Learn how to confidently and graciously make significant financial asks.
• Maintain strong follow-up and accurate donor records in Salesforce.
• Work toward annual fundraising goals, including growing the number of donors giving $10,000 or more.

What Success Looks Like

Over time, you will be expected to:

• Complete approximately 12 donor or prospect meetings per month.
• Build a strong pipeline of prospective donors.
• Develop trusted, long-term donor relationships.
• Work toward an annual fundraising goal of $350,000+.
• Develop the skills and confidence to secure significant gifts, including six-figure commitments.

Who Will Thrive in This Role

You may be a strong fit if you are:

• Naturally relational and energized by meeting new people.
• A strong communicator and good listener.
• Organized, dependable, and strong with follow-through.
• Comfortable initiating conversations and building new relationships.
• Motivated by goals and accountability.
• Mature and comfortable interacting with business leaders, families, and community members.
• Passionate about helping people and addressing global poverty.
• Excited to grow professionally in a mission-driven organization.

Faith & Mission Alignment

Design Outreach is a Christ-centered organization.

Candidates should support Design Outreach’s Christian mission, be comfortable working with donors and ministry partners motivated by their faith in Jesus Christ, and be aligned with our core values of excellence, faith, compassion, and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Early-career candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Prior fundraising experience is not required.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated initiative, maturity, organization, and follow-through.
• Comfort using technology and learning CRM systems.
• Salesforce experience is helpful but not required.
• Ability to travel approximately 4–7 nights per month.
• Willingness to participate in approximately one international trip per year.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment while staying closely connected to the team.

Compensation & Benefits

• $55,000–$65,000 salary
• Benefits package
• Remote work
• Professional coaching and fundraising training
• Significant growth opportunity
• The opportunity to use your career to help transform communities around the world

Location

This is a remote position, but the Development Representative should live in or near the Indianapolis or Grand Rapids metropolitan area because local donor relationships and in-person meetings are an important part of the role.

Full-time, permanent position | Gahanna, Ohio office
Support-raised position with benefits
International travel 1–2 times per year

About Design Outreach

It has been said that 90% of the world’s products are designed for 10% of the world’s wealthiest population. Technological advancement has changed billions of lives—but billions more are still being left behind without reliable access to essentials like clean water, sanitation, and basic healthcare. If today’s engineers can create self-driving cars, what if we put that same ingenuity toward solving one of humanity’s greatest challenges: global poverty?

That’s exactly why Design Outreach (DO) exists: to create life-sustaining solutions that alleviate global poverty. We are a team of passionate, creative professionals who believe engineering can do more than solve problems—it can change lives. Guided by our four core values—excellence, faith, compassion, and collaboration—we engineer high-quality, sustainable technologies designed specifically for the unique contexts and needs of developing countries, and we partner with local governments and communities to ensure our solutions continue to create impact long after we are gone.

Through technologies such as LifePump™ and MaxLife™, we have already reached more than 1 million people with safe, reliable water. But we’re just getting started.

Today, 1 in 4 people around the world still lacks basic access to safe water, resulting in women and children spending hours every day making long, difficult, and often dangerous journeys to collect water—a crisis that takes children out of school, limits economic opportunity, and undermines health, dignity, and wellbeing. But there is hope. We’ve seen firsthand what happens when communities have solutions that are designed for their context, built to last, and created in partnership with the people they serve.

That’s why we’ve set a God-sized goal to reach 10 million people by 2030. But we can’t do it alone. We’re looking for people who are passionate about serving others, energized by solving meaningful problems, and ready to use their talents for something bigger than themselves. Join us in engineering hope and building a brighter future for millions of people around the world.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the Project Engineer will primarily be involved in engineering medical solutions through the DO Way for Appropriate Technology Development—including research, design, engineering, testing, manufacturing support, quality, and field support. The position will involve a high amount of collaboration across DO’s project teams and with suppliers to ensure on-time completion of project objectives.

The Project Engineer position is a full-time permanent position with benefits and requires support raising.

What You’ll Do

• Provide engineering support for development of medical devices through, but not limited to, research, design, analysis, prototyping, testing, manufacturing support, documentation, and risk management.
• Provide secondary engineering support to WASH projects on an as-needed basis.
• Collaborate with Field Programs department, including DO field offices in Malawi and Zambia, to field test and implement new technologies. International travel 1–2 times per year is required.
• Support-raise launch funds and annual funds, while maintaining consistent and appropriate contact with ministry partners.
• Participate in design project teams and professionally represent Design Outreach while interfacing with various volunteer, industry, healthcare, and advisory partners.
• Implement the DO Way for Appropriate Technology Development on projects.
• Collaborate with staff and volunteers on user/human-centered design activities and studies.
• Generate CAD models and drawings; manage design changes.
• Utilize prototyping methods to evaluate, test, and refine concepts.
• Design and implement test methods to verify and validate, per applicable standards, that design outputs meet design inputs and user needs/intended uses.
• Plan and conduct usability validation studies at selected hospitals in developing nations.
• Document product development history per FDA design control requirements.
• Support risk management activities.
• Support 510(k) submissions.
• Review technical content for accuracy such as drawings, models, engineering analyses, and test reports that are developed by outside resources such as volunteer teams and suppliers.
• Manage small projects with supervision.
• Attend meetings with suppliers and provide suppliers with appropriate technical information.

Faith & Mission Alignment

• Understands and supports the mission of a Christ-centered organization dedicated to sharing the Gospel by word and deed.
• Passion and agreement with Design Outreach’s vision and mission.
• Kingdom and abundance-minded when working with ministry partners.

Qualifications

• Ability to learn and provide support to comply with applicable medical device regulations.
• High capacity to be self-motivated for independent work and to be collaborative for work with teams, including volunteers.
• Strong communication (writing, oral, and presentation) and interpersonal skills.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented.
• Excellent verbal, grammar, computer, and Word/Excel/PowerPoint skills.
• Ability to provide presentations to coworkers and volunteers.
• Intermediate to advanced skills in CAD and statistical analysis.
• High capacity to multitask, work independently, and problem solve.
• Ability to commit an average of 8 hours per day 5 days per week (40 hours total per week), with availability in evenings and weekends to support special events, accommodate volunteer/donor schedules, and ensure deadlines are achieved.
• Ability to work in a team-based collaborative environment.

Location

This position works from our office in Columbus, Ohio, with the ability to travel domestically and internationally to meet with staff and/or partners.