Individual Giving Manager

YWCA TULSA INC•Tulsa, OK

1d•$55,000 - $70,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Individual Giving Manager is responsible for supporting YWCA Tulsa’s annual contributed income goal of $6M. This includes meeting revenue goals for individual and major giving, event tickets/attendance, and planned giving.

Requirements

Excellent attention to detail – able to catch the smallest typo and remember countless names.
Superior communication skills – verbal, written, and web-based.
Ability to effectively work with and organize volunteers.
Loves to work on a team, but is capable of working with minimal supervision.
Advanced computer skills (Microsoft Office with heavy use of Word, Outlook, and Excel)
Strong commitment to learning, growth, and continuous improvement.
Ability to alleviate and/or mitigate conflict.
Works on skills that can help communicate his/her point to an audience belonging to a completely different identity and/or background. These differences can be identity-based, geographical, ethical, political, or historical.
Openness to engaging conflict in a positive and proactive manner with the goals of finding solutions, producing change, and bringing together opposing parties.
Works effectively with all employees and members of all races, religions, sexes, national origins, ages, sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions; and without regard to disability status, genetic information, marital status, or status as a covered veteran.
4-Year bachelor degree preferred.
2-4 years fundraising experience with individual donors and campaigns
Highly skilled in all forms of communication – written, verbal
Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Responsibilities

Identifying, cultivating, and stewarding individual donor relationships.
Maintaining a major gifts portfolio of 100-150 donors and regularly soliciting major gifts
Strategically manage donor relationships, frequently meeting and corresponding with individual donors, averaging 7-10 touchpoints a year with each donor in your portfolio
Develop and maintain a pipeline of prospective major donors through research, referrals, and events
Creating, testing, monitoring, and evaluating appeals and campaigns ensuring budget goals are met.
Assessing current plans for annual fund donors and implementing improvements.
Focusing on the growth and retention of the annual donor pool.
Establishing and maintaining Donor Giving Circle to engage major donors. Defined as donors making gifts of $1000 or more.
Design and implement a donor stewardship strategy that celebrates and recognizes contributions at all levels.
Create personalized thank-you communications, impact reports, and updates that show donors the tangible results of their generosity.
Manage donor recognition programs, including events, naming opportunities, and public acknowledgments.
Collaborate with fundraising, marketing, and program teams to ensure consistent, heartfelt donor messaging.
Coordinate small-scale donor appreciation events and behind-the-scenes experiences that bring our mission to life.
Grow the legacy giving program by working with the CEO and Sr. Director of Development and Marketing to identify, cultivate, secure, and steward new gifts
Manage two annual education campaigns that help raise the profile of our Smart Giving and Planned Giving programs.
Make 3-5 meaningful contacts per month with new prospects and track all donor interactions in the donor database
In partnership with Development Operations Manager ensure all individual gifts received are properly entered and restricted per the donors’ intentions in donor CRM database
Ensure all interactions and communications with Individual Donors and Sponsors are properly tracked in CRM database to improve relationships and communications with donors and create a giving history for all support
Partner with Development Operations Manager and Sr. Director of Development and Marketing in all donor stewardship efforts
Other duties as assigned to support Development team efforts