Philanthropy Officer, MG & IG

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Full Time Chicago, IL, US 1 Attachments

2 days ago Requisition

Salary Range: $75,000.00 To $80,000.00 Annually

Philanthropy Officer, Major Gifts & Individual Giving

Center on Halsted is the Midwest’s largest LQBTQ+ community center, providing a vast

array of programs and services designed to advance Chicago’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual,

Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) and allied community. Center on Halsted helps create a

thriving community by adhering to our five values.

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
• Authenticity

Vision: A thriving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, living powerfully in

Mission:
Center on Halsted advances community and secures the health and well-being of the

LGBTQ people of Chicagoland.

The Philanthropy Officer, Major Gifts and Individual Giving is primarily responsible for identifying, qualifying,

cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding an assigned portfolio of individual donors and prospects with the capacity

to give $5,000 or more annually, with a heightened focus on securing and upgrading gifts in the future.

Reporting to the Chief Development Officer, this philanthropy officer will build and manage a growing portfolio

through a disciplined moves management process: designing customized solicitation strategies, identifying gift

opportunities that match each donor's interests, personally soliciting gifts, and continually stewarding major gift

donors. The role carries annual revenue goals and activity metrics for donor engagement and prospect

development, tracked in Raiser's Edge NXT.

The philanthropy officer will serve as the primary relationship manager for assigned donors, staff solicitations by

the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Development Officer, and Board members, and lead Center on Halsted's

planned giving and legacy giving pipeline. This is a seasoned frontline fundraiser with a track record of building

mutually beneficial relationships with individual donors through face-to-face meetings, direct solicitation, and

intimate cultivation experiences, including opportunities at our three locations:
Center on Halsted and Center on

Addison in Lakeview, and Center on Cottage Grove in Woodlawn.

• Represent Center on Halsted at internal and external events as requested

• Manage a portfolio of 100-125 qualified major gift donors and prospects with capacity to give $5,000+ annually, with a focus on upgrading donors to $10,000-$25,000+; introduce and advance planned giving conversations with individual donors.
• Develop and implement a customized cultivation and solicitation strategy for each assigned donor, including personalized outreach and in-person and virtual meetings; conduct a minimum number of substantive donor meetings and solicitations monthly as set annually with the Chief Development Officer.
• Meet or exceed annual revenue goals for major gifts fundraising and key activity metrics for donor engagement, qualification, and prospect development in service of those goals.
• Manage donor life cycles through moves management in Raiser's Edge NXT: record contact reports, next steps, proposals, and solicitation stages; maintain accurate pipeline projections aligned with other frontline fundraisers to ensure reliable revenue forecasting.
• Identify new major donor prospects through wealth screening and capacity analysis, local networks, peer referrals, and Center on Halsted's database; qualify prospects and move them into active portfolio management in collaboration with…