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Officer, Major Giving (East)

Skills
Board LeadershipExternal RelationsFinancial GoalsFundraisingHuman RightsInternational RelationsProfessional Conduct
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • Minimum 3 to 5 years of progressive nonprofit fundraising experience
  • Proven expertise in major giving
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as an overall ability to be clear and concise in all communications
  • Strong organizational and time-management skills
  • Ability to work both independently and in a dynamic, cross-functional team structure
  • Experience using databases required
  • Dedication to fundraising for international development, humanitarian, human rights, social justice, and U.S. immigrant communities
  • Ability to handle and work through change in a proactive and positive manner
  • Have a can-do attitude with a flexible disposition to respond to fast-paced, shifting priorities

Day to day

  • Manage a portfolio of 70 - 100 high-capacity major giving donors, prospects, and suspects. Results in retaining donors and realizing ever-growing size gifts at the high six and seven-figure level
  • Engage donors and prospects and create strategic correspondence, including solicitations, cultivation pieces, reports, and other stewardship materials
  • Work effectively across teams to craft tactics and engagement strategies to deepen donor commitment, increase giving, and fully leverage funding opportunities