Chief Development Officer, USA Hockey Foundation

USA Hockey • Colorado Springs, CO

2d • $145,000 - $165,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Chief Development Officer will lead all aspects of fundraising for The USA Hockey Foundation. This includes supervising day-to-day operations of the Foundation, including staff, creating a strategic fundraising plan to meet increasing revenue goals, maintaining a portfolio of top donors and prospects, and coordinating senior staff and volunteer leaders’ donor relationship responsibilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university.
• At least five years’ experience in frontline fundraising position preferred.
• Direct responsibility for cultivating, soliciting and stewarding gifts of $10,000 or greater.
• Demonstrated success in securing five- and six-figure major gifts from individual donors.
• Superior oral, written and interpersonal communication skills required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience with fundraising software a plus.
• Excellent negotiation and closing skills.
• Effective and compassionate listening skills.
• Exceptional presentation skills.
• Ability to positively engage with all USA Hockey constituent groups.

Nice To Haves

• Hockey knowledge and experience preferred.
• Candidates with transferable skills acquired in other professional settings (i.e. sales, account and relationship management) may be considered.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development team to implement a strategic gift solicitation plan for generating major gifts from high-level prospects and donors.
• Supervise the Foundation staff and development team.
• Carry a portfolio and identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major and planned gifts including initiating and making personal visits and sending written solicitations.
• Cultivate major donors through appropriate moves management strategy.
• Coordinate and conduct donor visits as necessary.
• Plan cultivation and stewardship events for major donors and donor prospects.
• Conduct prospect research to estimate financial capacity and organization/mission affinity.
• Generate contact call reports, status updates and metrics to provide leadership with an accurate portrayal of activity and financial projections.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative working relationships with other members of the development team.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Twelve paid holidays
• Paid summer break
• Vacation accrual of 75 hours in the first year
• Two personal days
• 57.5 hours sick time
• 403B with a 4% match after six months
• Additional 403B deferral program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior