Individual Giving Officer

General Function 

Under general supervision, develops, executes, and leads a strategic, comprehensive individual giving program to grow major giving, annual appeals, and planned giving.

 Essential Functions

• Manages a portfolio of 100 - 125 high-capacity and mid-level donors and prospects.
• Builds a major gift pipeline for the development and leadership teams and populates portfolios with individuals that have the capacity to increase giving to the Center.
• Develops and implements appropriate cultivation and moves management strategies for prospects and donors.
• Contributes to the development of major gift proposals
• Creates prospect strategy plans for major gift donors and prospects.
• Creates basic research profiles and meeting briefs for all prospects as needed.
• Strengthens engagement with annual donors; ensures proper donor recognition and stewardship.
• Develops and implements a planned giving strategy aligned with individual giving programs.
• Collaborates with development team to establish and meet annual goals including, dollars raised, renewal percentages, and donor pipeline development for individual donor portfolios.
• Supports Campaign Development Committee members to build, manage, and execute donor portfolios.
• Collaborates with development team to craft, test, and revise messaging that advances the culture of philanthropy within the Center’s donor, volunteer, and certificant base.
• Performs comprehensive ongoing data analysis and evaluation related to all aspects of the Center’s individual giving programs.
• Ensures individual giving fundraising activity and interactions are accurately and regularly stored in donor databases, and acknowledgement letters are generated in a timely matter.
• Collaborates with the marketing and communications teams to develop comprehensive, multi-channel communications plans.
• Prepares monthly reports on progress toward goals to date.
• Contributes to special campaigns to meet development goals as appropriate.
• Performs other duties as assigned.