Major Gifts Officer

Responsibilities:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and the position will perform other duties as assigned.

• Manage a portfolio of individual, corporate, and foundation donors interested in supporting The PenFed Foundation’s mission. While a portion of the Major Gifts Officer’s portfolio will be existing prospects and donors, this role will also include new-donor identification and cultivation.
• Implement moves-management strategies for engaging and soliciting each donor and execute plans promptly. Tracks all engagement in Salesforce and Excel on a daily basis.
• Ability to write compelling grants, proposals, and asks.
• Meet with donors in person and over the phone.
• Work with programmatic staff to secure program data to create offers, proposals, and asks that resonate with donors.
• Ability to successfully solicit donations, follow through on pending asks, and bring gifts to fruition.
• Ability to manage projects and meet deadlines while adhering to the policies of the Foundation, working collaboratively with colleagues, and promoting the mission, goals, and values of the Foundation.
• Represent the Foundation to the community, non-profits, individual contributors and/or groups of potential donors.
• Able to occasionally travel for donor meetings and other events.
• Review and assess existing donor files to identify prospects for targeted relationship building with the goal of upgrading and sustaining their support, with a strong focus on securing multi-year gifts.
• Knowledge of best practices and techniques to develop and analyze return on investment for various development strategies.
• Attend our annual gala and golf classic and assist with both events as needed.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

Equivalent combination of education and experience is considered.

• 3-5 years of experience in fundraising.
• Experience with a donor database or CRM.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
• Superior interpersonal skills required to work with diverse parties including major donors, staff, vendors, volunteers, and board members.
• Strong problem solving and time management skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy in all assignments. Ability to efficiently coordinate and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Highly proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Experience with Salesforce strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced, complex, multi-divisional environment with skills to establish priorities, set objectives, and achieve stated goals.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to an indoor office setting with moderate noise.

• Most roles require working in an office setting with moderate noise and the ability to lift 25 pounds.*

Travel

Ability to travel to various worksites and be on-call may be required.