ANNUAL GIVING SPECIALIST

Job Summary: The Annual Giving Specialist will strategize, organize and implement all aspects of the successful annual fund program in support of the overall annual fundraising goals of the organization. The Specialist will be well organized and have exceptional writing and inter personal skills.

Job Duties include the following:

• Conduct all foundation business in an ethical and respectful manner in adherence with the Compliance and Ethics Program.
• Develop strategies to identify annual donors, maintain consistent giving frequencies, and grow gift amounts year over year.
• Manage memorial brick and bench program.
• Cultivate, solicit and steward annual donors by phone, electronic communications, in-person visits, and events.
• Document constituent activities in Raiser’s Edge.
• Identify donors with major gift or planned giving potential. Introduce to gift officers and facilitate transitions to alternate giving levels.
• Organize and facilitate, in collaboration with the communications team, annual appeals.
• Manage Avow’s Grateful Families and Shining Stars programs including overseeing mailings, coordinating thank yous and other outreach to donors as well as outreach to staff when they are recognized.
• Lead Avow’s internal employee giving program through cultivation, solicitation and stewardship activities directed at paid staff.
• Direct and administer disaster fundraising efforts as needed.
• Coordinate and lead all aspects of the annual peer-to-peer fundraising campaign including working with other fundraisers to solicit pre-campaign gift, collaborate with Communications Specialist to create collateral and social media posts, recruit peer fundraisers, train peer fundraisers and work with them throughout the campaign, organize pre-campaign and post campaign activities, etc.
• Support strategic planning efforts, events, and giving initiatives of the team.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual reporting on all annual fund activities.
• Contribute content to newsletters, electronic correspondence and other mass communications as requested.
• Participate in continuing education opportunities and industry associations that will promote the Avow brand and/or develop fundraising expertise.
• All other duties as assigned.

Core Values:

Innovation:
We embrace change and are always looking at creative ways to solve problems and serve new populations.

Integrity:
We are honest, hardworking, fiscally responsible professionals driven solely by the well-being of our patients, their loved ones, and the communities we serve.

Collaboration:
We know we cannot achieve everything we want without working hand-in-hand with each other, with our healthcare partners, and with the community.

Celebration:
We believe in the importance of celebrating life and relationships.

Education:
We believe it is important not only to serve the community but to educate community members about our services and the role we can play at the end of life.