Major Gifts Officer

Since 2011, Dream Centers, a faith-based nonprofit in Colorado Springs, has provided health and hope to those rebuilding their dreams. Guided by our Christian faith, we partner with the greater Pikes Peak community to fill the most critical gaps in care for women and children experiencing poverty, trauma, and homelessness. Our work is holistic by design: we believe lasting change happens from the inside out, and every program we offer reflects that conviction.

Dream Centers operates three interconnected programs:

• Women’s Clinic – Free GYN, behavioral health, and wraparound services for uninsured women in Colorado. We average 45-minute appointments, foster deep provider-patient relationships, and maintain a net promoter score of 99%.
• Mary’s Home – A multi-year, trauma-informed residential program offering life-skills training, education, job development, and stable housing for single-mother families experiencing homelessness.
• Big Dream Early Learning – An innovative emerging early learning center helping children from birth to age six bridge the gap between early childhood trauma and a hopeful future.

Dream Centers is seeking a gifted, relational, and mission-driven leader to guide the Big Dream Early Learning capital campaign. This person will help carry a bold and beautiful vision for an emerging Dream Centers initiative designed to meet children and families at a critical moment with trauma-healing, relationship-centered early learning and support.

The right person for this role will know how to tell the story, build trust, follow through with excellence, and help donors see that their generosity can change the trajectory of a child’s life and strengthen a family’s ability to carry forward with stability, skill, and connection.

The ideal candidate will be deeply connected in the Colorado Springs philanthropic community and will bring established relationships, credibility, and trust with local donors, foundations, business leaders, churches, civic partners, and community champions.

Campaign Leadership and Strategy

• As part of the Dream Center’s Executive Leadership team, lead the planning, coordination, execution, and management of the Big Dream Early Learning capital campaign.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive campaign plan, including goals, timelines, donor segments, cultivation strategies, solicitation plans, stewardship practices, and committee engagement rhythms.
• Work closely with Dream Centers leadership to clarify campaign priorities, funding needs, messaging, and donor engagement opportunities.
• Track campaign progress against goals and provide regular updates to executive leadership, the board, campaign committees and subcommittees, and other key stakeholders.
• Identify potential risks, gaps, or opportunities in the campaign and recommend adjustments as needed.

Steering Committee and Subcommittee Management

• Manage and support the existing campaign committees and subcommittees.
• Ensure committee members are clear on goals, roles, timelines, assignments, and next steps.
• Coordinate committee meetings, agendas, materials, follow-up items, donor assignments, and accountability rhythms.
• Help keep campaign leaders engaged, informed, encouraged, and moving together toward shared goals.
• Serve as a central point of coordination between Dream Centers staff, committee members, subcommittee chairs, and organizational leadership.
• Create a culture of momentum, clarity, ownership, and relational trust across the campaign structure.

Colorado Springs Philanthropic Engagement

• Bring deep knowledge of and connection to the Colorado Springs philanthropic community.
• Identify, cultivate, and engage local donors, foundations, businesses, churches, civic leaders, and…