United States of America: Officer, Major Gifts

Organization: International Rescue Committee
Country: United States of America
Closing date: 06 Jan 2015

Cultivate, solicit, and maintain a portfolio of high engagement major donors and major gifts prospects. High engagement donors are defined as those who give gifts of $10,000 or more. The Major Gifts officer will have a special focus on first-time major donors and donors with strong upgrade capacity. The Officer will actively identify, develop strategies, and solicit new major gifts prospects; write cultivation materials, correspondence, proposals, and briefing materials for personal communications and for senior staff and board members.

Major Responsibilities:

• Draft solicitations, cultivation correspondence, proposals and other written materials to engage current donors and prospects. Design ways to deepen donor commitment and enhanced gift giving.
• Offer to personally visit or arrange in-person appointments for IRC leadership, both senior staff and volunteers, with all donors and prospects annually.
• Prepare strategy, briefing and debriefing materials for face-to-face meetings with major donors conducted by senior staff or volunteer leadership.
• Track progress utilizing software applications.
• Collaborate with colleagues in External Relations, particularly events fundraising and marketing, on solicitation and cultivation of major donors. Liaise with program staff in both U.S. Programs and International Programs (USP and IPD) to gather materials which are translated into proposals or donor reports.
• Request to administrative support or attend to administrative needs personally on correspondence, expense reports and other administrative matters.

Other Internal and/or external: Internal: Collaborate with the Major Gifts team on solicitation and cultivation materials, invitations and tracking. Work with the Associate Director of Major Gifts on strategies for portfolio management, including preparing briefing materials and correspondence, and develop strategy for major donors and planned giving prospects. Receive materials from the International Program and US Program programmatic staff. Create major donor correspondence as needed for senior staff and volunteers and assist in briefing and strategizing about donors. External: Board members and Overseers. High engagement major donors and planned giving prospects.

Impact of Work:

• Responsible for a portfolio of approximately $3.5 million annually. Fundraising efforts support the operation of the entire organization.
• Responsible for well developed and executed communication plan across the MGPG team resulting in immediate revenue now from major donors, future income from Partners for Freedom, and generating new prospect leads for planned giving. Responsible for a portfolio of approximately $1.5 million annually plus many additional estate gifts (with projected value of several million dollars) as a result of good stewardship.

Education:

• Minimum: Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Preferred: Master's degree

Work Experience:

• 5 to 7 years progressively responsible experience in not-for-profit fundraising
• Demonstrated Skills and Competencies:
• Excellent relationship-building skills, including oral and written communications with tact and diplomacy. Creative thinking to develop engagement strategies with maximum impact. Superior organizational skills and the ability to work independently

How to apply:

Please follow this link to apply: http://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=ZGFwaG5lZC44NDM1My4zODMwQGlyYy5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20