Major Gifts Manager

Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont • Charlotte, NC

48d

About The Position

SUMMARY
Designs, develops, and implements Goodwill Industries major gift program. Assists in advancing the organization’s fund development strategy by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES are listed below in order of importance, from most important to least important.
Develops and implements major gifts giving strategies.
Manages and cultivate relationships with existing donors and prospects, focusing on mid-level donors ($10,000 and above).
Identifies, qualifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards new prospects and donors.
Coordinates major gifts campaign reporting and analysis, as well as database entry of campaign activities and donor communications.
Develops and implements donor recognition strategies and events.
Works in conjunction with the Chief Advancement Officer to build out donor giving societies and effectively manage welcome, recognition, and stewardship for those donors in major gifts portfolio.
Contributes to the fundraising team’s overall fundraising goals.

Requirements

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals or technical procedures.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and other informative communication.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from team members, consumers, volunteers and the general public using tact, courtesy and cooperativeness.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Must be a strategic thinker with interpersonal skills, creativity, idea generation and deductive reasoning.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to deal with several abstract and concrete variables exercising originality, initiative and ingenuity making decisions.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instruction furnished in written, oral and diagram of schedule form.
• Ability to gain the respect and confidence of others, and act with the highest level of integrity in all situations.
• A demonstrated capacity for developing and understanding marketing and communications strategy.
• A self-starter, detail and task oriented, able to successfully manage multiple priorities and work well in a cross-functional team environment.
• Working knowledge of MailChimp, WordPress, Trello, graphic design, and word processing software.
• Must be able to use MS Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Ability to operate office equipment, including computer, scanner, telephone, fax machine and copy machine.
• Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university in Marketing, Communications or Public Relations and three years of nonprofit fundraising experience or related activities; or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Valid Driver's License (Class C), car insurance and reliable automobile required.
• team member is regularly (more than 2/3 of the day) required to sit, talk or hear.
• The team member frequently (1/3 to 2/3 of the day) is required to use hands to finger, handle or feel.
• The team member is occasionally (less than 1/3 of the day) required to walk or stand.
• The team member must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.
• Occasional local travel required.

Nice To Haves

• Public speaking ability is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements major gifts giving strategies.
• Manages and cultivate relationships with existing donors and prospects, focusing on mid-level donors ($10,000 and above).
• Identifies, qualifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards new prospects and donors.
• Coordinates major gifts campaign reporting and analysis, as well as database entry of campaign activities and donor communications.
• Develops and implements donor recognition strategies and events.
• Works in conjunction with the Chief Advancement Officer to build out donor giving societies and effectively manage welcome, recognition, and stewardship for those donors in major gifts portfolio.
• Contributes to the fundraising team’s overall fundraising goals.
• Performs other job-related tasks as assigned by Chief Advancement Officer.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees