Position Summary: Provides support for the Major Gifts team including Director, Principal Giving, National Philanthropy Advisors and Chapter Philanthropy Advisors on projects and day-to-day tasks that drive revenue. Performs duties including creating intentional communication with major donors, producing templates, coordinating MG Network calls and other cross-team collaboration initiatives, arranging donor cultivation activities and researching grant-making organizations. Additionally, collaborates with multiple teams to collect funding initiatives for MG team to present to donors, all while working to build a portfolio.
Core Competencies:
- Decision Quality – makes sound decisions, even in the absence of complete information, relies on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgement when making decisions
- Action Oriented – readily takes action on challenges, identified and seizes new opportunities, displays a can-do attitude
- Communicates Effectively – effective in a variety of communication settings (one-on-one and large groups among diverse styles and position levels), adjusts to fit audience and message, provides timely and helpful information to others
- Self-Development – shows personal commitment and takes action to continuously improve, accepts assignment that broaden capabilities, learns new experiences from others
Job Specific Competencies:
- Organizational Savvy – deals comfortably various levels and positions within organization, is sensitive to how people and organizations function, anticipates land mines and plans approach accordingly, steers through organizational maze to get things done.
- Interpersonal Savvy – relates comfortably to people across all levels, functions, culture and geography, acts with diplomacy and tact, builds rapport in accepting way, picks up on interpersonal and group dynamics
- Customer Focus – gains inside into customer (donor) needs, identifies opportunities that benefit customer expectations, builds and delivers solutions, establishes and maintains effective donor relationships
- Resourcefulness – effectively utilizes resources (people, funding, material, support) to get things done, orchestrates multiple activities simultaneously to accomplish goal
Areas of Responsibility:
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required; Bachelor’s degree in business, nonprofit management, liberal arts or related field preferred.
- 2-3 administrative/professional experience desired. Preferable in a nonprofit and/or fundraising setting.
- Must have versatile skills utilizing a variety of computer programs/software, with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Adobe Acrobat programs. Experience with Raiser’s Edge or donor database is a plus.
Skills/Experience:
Knowledge and Abilities:
- Exhibits a donor-centric mindset
- Eager to learn and holds a sense of urgency to complete tasks with a commitment to quality and attention to detail
- Energetic team player and great collaborator, demonstrates the ability to work with a variety of internal/external stakeholders in a professional manner
- Possesses excellent interpersonal skills and follow-through, with a strong ‘can-do’ attitude and customer service focus
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Self-motivated, highly adaptable to change, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to handle highly confidential and sensitive information
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Drive major gifts revenue at Make-A-Wish America by:
- Working with stewardship and research teams to prepare the MG Team donor outreach & proposals
- Arranging small donor cultivation events in select markets
- Supporting donor relationship managers and director in scheduling donor meetings
- Assisting with donor communications, meeting preparation and follow-up
- Engaging in coordinated outreach to select portfolio-held donors
- Building intentional relationships within National Team (medical outreach, strategy, chapter advancement, brand, etc.) to gain understanding of funding priorities and opportunities for funding that may exist
- Researching and actively prospecting grant-making foundations that meet criteria for funding and pursue relationships appropriately
- Actively using Raiser’s Edge database to input actions, pull reports, run queries/exports and record information properly
- Support Chapter Philanthropy Advisor program to drive chapter MG revenue by:
- Working with chapter philanthropy advisors to produce templates, materials and resources to chapter MG partners
- Coordinating chapter calls and meetings on behalf of chapter philanthropy advisors
- Conducting specific topical research per chapter calls and communication
- Providing travel related support
- Work toward building and carrying a portfolio of individual donors to cultivate, steward and solicit
Job Function:
Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Nov 21 2017
Active Until:
Dec 21 2017
Hiring Organization:
Make-A-Wish America
industry:
Nonprofit