Major Gifts Officer

The Menninger Clinic

$70K — $95K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business or related field; Master's preferred.
  • Minimum 5 years in developing and implementing successful fundraising strategies.
  • Successful fundraising track record with multiple major gifts of $100K or more.
  • Experience working with Texas foundations and local stakeholders.
  • Familiarity with Texas Medical Center is advantageous; planned giving experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Raise mid-level, major, and planned gifts to support philanthropic goals.
  • Achieve individual and team fundraising targets while meeting strategic metrics.
  • Develop and implement tailored fundraising strategies for donor portfolios.
  • Conduct strategic face-to-face visits to qualify prospects for major gifts.
  • Create and execute donor cultivation strategies, engaging key volunteers as needed.
  • Steward donors through the giving cycle, focusing on timely closure of gifts.
  • Collaborate with team members and leadership in proposal submissions.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule with mandatory in-office Wednesdays.
  • Supportive and collaborative work environment with leadership involvement.
  • Opportunity to engage with high-impact philanthropic initiatives.
  • Involvement in strategic decision-making processes affecting fundraising.
Full Job Description
**Please provide a writing sample with your resume uploaded as one file. Sample can be a report, grant proposal, or internal leadership memo**

Schedule: Hybrid. M-F 8:00A-5:00p, two days in-office with Wednesdays required.

Key Functions
  1. Raise mid-level, major and planned gifts to support the institutions philanthropic priorities.
  1. Achieve fundraising goals - individual, team and organizational - and meet Office of Philanthropy metrics.
  1. Strategically develop, implement and report fundraising strategies for his/her portfolio of major gift donors and prospects to effectively move them through a meaningful cycle of giving.
    1. Make strategic face-to-face visits and qualify prospects that lead to major gifts for research, training and education, patient programs, capital and endowment.
    2. Develop appropriate cultivation strategies for donors, including staffing key volunteers.
    3. Move potential donors in an appropriate and timely fashion through, and back-to, the prospect pipeline, with a focus on closure of gifts and long-term stewardship.
    4. Work with internal team members, leadership and volunteers to submit proposals and requests that lead to major gifts for research, training and education, patient programs, capital and endowments (when appropriate).
    5. Maintain stewardship contacts with donors; adhere to the highest ethical standards; demonstrate empathetic disposition, and perseverance; reflect optimistic and positive attitude, and convey sensitivity to needs of the donors.
  1. Involve others when appropriate (i.e., Board Directors, clinic leadership, faculty, other departments, and team mates) in the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of major gift donors and prospects.
  1. Monitors and reports on all assigned prospect contacts to ensure positive and purposeful prospect and donor relations.
  1. Achieve goals within budget.


Education

Required: Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business or related field

Preferred: Master's degree in related field

Preferred Certification: CFRE

Experience
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in developing and implementing fundraising strategies, resulting in major gifts ($100K+).
  • Measurable track record in raising multiple major gifts ($100K+), preferably in capital and medical training and research - with results also in general operating/unrestricted, endowment, and other programmatic objective.
  • Preferably, experience securing major gifts from Texas foundations, especially private foundations in the Greater Houston Area.
  • Knowledge of the Texas Medical Center, a plus.
  • Experience in planned giving, a plus.

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