SENIOR GIFTS OFFICER
Job Summary:
The Senior Gifts Officer will identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift prospects and donors in support of the overall annual and long-term fundraising goals of the organization. The Senior Gifts Officer will be well organized and have exceptional writing and inter-personal skills.
Job Duties:
- Conduct all foundation business in an ethical and respectful manner in adherence with the Compliance and Ethics Program.
- Manage a portfolio of approximately 120 major gift prospects
- Implement a comprehensive donor development plan for assigned constituents.
- Identify major gift prospects, identify areas of interest and prepare proposals to secure funding.
- Review prospect research (including private foundation 990 tax returns) and develop prospecting strategies, matching prospects to funding opportunities.
- Cultivate, solicit, and steward assigned constituents.
- Document constituent activities in Raiser’s Edge NXT, monitor timeliness of gift entry and donor acknowledgement.
- Support strategic planning efforts, events, and giving initiatives of the team.
- Participate in budget planning, review, and accounting.
- 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.
- Perform 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.