Donor Advisor II

Hope Media Group•New Caney, TX

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hope Media Group is a multi-brand ministry that engages people to love Jesus, serve others, and spread Hope through various media platforms and events. The team environment is described as fun, encouraging, collaborative, engaging, caring, family-oriented, and friendly. The Donor Advisor II will cultivate a portfolio of approximately 150-200 major gift donors across all Hope Media Group brands, developing and implementing Individual Development Plans (IDPs) to align donor interests with ministry initiatives. This role involves supporting donor communications, impact reporting, and gift solicitations while nurturing generosity and attending to donors' spiritual needs, including prayer.

Requirements

Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in development/fundraising for non-profit organizations.
Demonstrated success in securing major gifts.
Demonstrated understanding of the major gift fundraising process, principles, methods, and practices including prospect research; and the ability to develop successful donor relationships through cultivation and stewardship.
Demonstrated experience in developing and executing strategy.
Prioritizes and task-switches with a fluctuating workload and competing priorities.
Organizes and manages time with frequent interruptions.
Attention to detail regarding writing, data entry and numerical accuracy, with a focus on data integrity.
Listens and quickly picks up on verbal/tonal cues.
Clearly communicates both verbally and in writing with constituents and corporate partners by telephone, letter, e-mail, and in person.
Takes initiative, works independently, and collaborates with team members.
Shows initiative and consistently hungers for continuous improvement.
Discerns and elicits the interests and concerns of others, meeting needs and discovering ways to improve engagement with donors.
Natural ability to quickly build rapport and trust with ministry stakeholders.
Able to process analytically and think strategically regarding managing a portfolio of donors and upgrading gifts.
Skilled at positioning a funding offer and making the ask.
Demonstrates strong moral, ethical and relational skills.
Desires and shows willingness to pray for others.
Sound understanding of the theology of fundraising and fundraising ethics.
Proficiency using Microsoft Word, Excel & Teams. Ability to be trained on CRM.
Committed to a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Grounded spiritually and biblically literate.
Comfortable praying for co-workers in team meetings, leading spoken prayer, and participating in ministry prayer meetings and Bible studies.
Live Christian principles defined by the ministry’s Statement of Faith & Biblical Beliefs.
Exhibit a strong moral character.
Active member of a Bible believing local church.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree preferred, but not required if has customer service experience.
Knowledge of local or regional environments a plus but not required.
Bilingual in English/Spanish a plus.
Passion for leveraging the HMG’s media platforms for evangelism and discipleship.

Responsibilities

Engages, shepherds, and solicits a portfolio of qualified major donors in support of all Hope Media Group brands and programs.
Creates annual Individual Development Plans to cultivate portfolio donors and integrating moves management strategies to upgrade gifts and eventually motivate transformational giving.
Builds and stewards relationships with portfolio donors.
Identifies, cultivates and solicits prospective planned giving and endowment donors.
Creates, maintains, and updates complete donor data in CRM.
Engages with donors with in person visits, phone calls, handwritten notes, personal emails, and texts to identify specific donor HMG brand interest(s) and to build connection to other HMG brands.
Promptly and professionally responds to and resolves donor requests and inquiries.
Provides ongoing spiritual care to portfolio, including praying with donors on phone calls and in-person as appropriate.
Works with Chief of Donor Engagement, Senior Vice President of Donor Engagement and leadership team members to coordinate meetings with major donors.
Seeks and creates opportunities to deepen donor experiences with Hope Media Group brands.
Inspires donors during experiences such as tours of Hope Media Group campus and studios.
Attends events such as breakfasts, galas, sports competitions, rodeos, vision trips, and pre-concert dinners to engage with donors as needed (requires early mornings, some evenings and some weekends.).
Participate in on-air fundraisers and prays for donors as needed.