Salary range: $75,000-$90,000
GENERAL SCOPE: Jewish Home Foundation seeks a dynamic and experienced fund development professional to assist the Executive Director of the Foundation team to plan, lead and grow its major gifts and planned giving efforts.
EDUCATION / QUALIFICATION:- The successful candidate will have a minimum of a BA degree and at least 10 years of progressive fundraising and management experience with extensive experience in major gift fundraising.
- Will have excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the proven ability to prioritize tasks and manage projects, events and deadlines effectively.
- Will possess strong professional ethics, integrity and accountability in all behavior; react well under pressure; treat others with respect; ensure transparency in all actions.
- Proven success in conducting major gift and planned giving asks.
- Successful experience in coaching and training volunteers and staff in fund development activities.
- Experience in strategic planning and budget development and management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience in Raiser's Edge donor management system.
- Knowledge of funding source environments.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:- Provide leadership for all major gift and planned giving initiatives.
- Work with Executive Director to position the organization to maximize fund development opportunities.
- Create and execute a comprehensive major gift & planned giving work plan, including budgets and specific goals, objectives and strategies for the department.
- Foster a culture of philanthropy and enhance a donor centered approach to our advancement goals that nurtures loyalty through a comprehensive relationship building program of cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.
- Cultivate, solicit and steward prospective major gift and planned giving prospects and develop a plan to do the same.
- Build relationships with the estate and financial planning professionals.
- Coordinate suggestions for planned giving vehicles with prospects and their advisors to meet their estate/financial planning goals and those of the Foundation.
- Maintain a high level of expertise regarding state and federal taxes; gift and estate planning methods and the legal aspect of charitable planned giving.
- Ensure that donor relations and all fundraising activities meet the highest ethical standards.
- Identify and engage new donors.
- Assist with grant writing and identification of prospective funders.
- Conduct prospect research and identify pool of prospective major gift donors and opportunities.
- Provide qualitative and quantitative reporting and analysis of giving to the Foundation team and the Foundation's Board of Directors.
This description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of position scope.
