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About The Position

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and minimum of four (4) years of successful professional fundraising OR 8+ years of comparable experience.
• Experience soliciting, securing, and stewarding corporate gifts/sponsorships preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and listening skills, including ability to make effective presentations to individuals and groups.
• Proven ability to work effectively with a diverse population of donors and prospects, board members, staff, and community leaders.
• Demonstrated success in working both independently and as a team member to create and implement fundraising strategies at the major gifts level.
• Strong sense of organization, planning, and time management.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products.
• Must be able to work some evenings and weekends.
• Travel required; must have a valid passport.
• Proven ability to work effectively with a diverse population of donors and prospects, board members, staff, and community leaders.
• Knowledge of donor software programs, preferably Blackbaud products

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead a comprehensive donor relations and stewardship strategy that supports donor retention, engagement, and philanthropic growth.
• Establish stewardship standards, recognition policies, and engagement practices across all advancement programs.
• Cultivate, solicit, and maintain a pool of 30-50 donors.
• Create and maintain stewardship matrices for annual, major, planned, campaign, and endowment donors.
• Ensure consistent, personalized, and timely stewardship experiences across all donor constituencies.
• Oversee all donor recognition programs, including annual donor listings, recognition walls, naming opportunities, giving societies, and tribute recognition.
• Develop and implement donor impact reporting initiatives that communicate the outcomes and importance of philanthropic support.
• Coordinate stewardship reporting for major donors, endowment donors, planned giving donors, and campaign supporters.
• Partner with fundraising staff to create customized stewardship plans for leadership donors and prospects.
• Provide strategic oversight of the museum’s membership program and supervise the Membership Engagement Coordinator.
• Partner with the Manager of Leadership Annual Giving to establish clear pathways from membership to philanthropic giving.
• Oversee member and donor engagement programs, ensuring alignment with institutional priorities and fundraising objectives.
• Collaborate with Events staff to create meaningful donor, member, and volunteer committee experiences.
• Oversee stewardship, communications, recognition, and benefit fulfillment for donor circles, giving societies, and volunteer support groups including fundraising event committees.
• Partner with Managers of Philanthropy on engagement strategies for National Council, Board Alumni Council, planned giving societies, and other donor communities.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Communications, Curatorial, Learning & Creativity, and Advancement colleagues to develop donor-centered communications and stewardship materials.
• Ensure donor communications reflect the museum’s mission, values, and commitment to exceptional hospitality.
• Promote a museum-wide culture of stewardship and donor appreciation.
• Develop stewardship metrics and regularly assess donor engagement and retention outcomes.
• Manage budgets associated with stewardship, recognition, and membership engagement initiatives.
• Serve as a strategic thought partner to Advancement leadership on donor experience and relationship-building initiatives.
• Perform other duties as assigned.