On 18/04/2008, Cormac Lawler cormaggio@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, coming from an NGO background, "development" refers to human development - access to basic human needs, and opportunity to alleviate oneself and one's community from poverty. I'm sure it means all sorts of things in different sectors - not to mention "developers", which have a specific meaning in our technologically based domain. I would suggest at least specifying in the title that the post relates to fundraising, and, if we're to keep the word "development", clarifying what that means in the job description.
"Development" is certainly a common euphemism for "fundraising" used in the education sector, FWIW - there's a "Development Director" upstairs at my current employer, for example, and a friend was recently the "Development Manager" for a university*. It's certainly not a particularly unusual term, in my experience.