Major Gifts Coordinator

Employment Status: Full-Time, Salaried (32+ hours)

FLSA Classification: Exempt

Salary: $50,000-$60,000 commesurate with experience and hours agreed upon (32-40 hours per week).

Position Summary:

The Major Gifts Coordinator plays a vital role in advancing the organization’s mission by supporting the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual donors capable of making significant philanthropic investments. This position ensures a seamless and personalized donor experience by providing coordination, data management, and administrative support for major gift strategies. Working collaboratively with the Executive Director/CEO, Chief Development Officer (CDO) and the development team, the Major Gifts Coordinator helps strengthen donor engagement, enhance retention, and drive strategic movement and recognition within the major donor portfolio.

Essential Duties and Major Responsibilities:

• Formulate and execute strategies, processes, and activities to deepen the commitment of existing major donors ($2500+) and gain new supporters.
• Implement overall strategy to engage donors and set overall calendar for donor outreach.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, thank, and steward the assigned portfolio of prospects for major gifts.
• Assist with donor events, including invitation management, RSVP tracking, and make donor follow up calls after the event.
• Assist with campaign or initiative-based fundraising coordination
• Assist with fundraising marketing needs and oversee list of needs and calendar for updated fundraising materials.
• Coordinate the timely preparation of strategic written and electronic communication in support of donor solicitations, donor relations and stewardship activities, strategic invitations, and donor acknowledgments.
• Prepare donor briefing materials, proposals, impact reports, and follow-up correspondence
• Manage calendar scheduling and internal coordination for major gifts team
• Redirects inquiries to meet the CEO or CDO, delegates the tasks to maintain the relationship and keeps track of progress until completed.
• Knowledge of working reports in RENXT for review in monthly/quarterly meetings with CEO and CDO.
• Develop the process for extending strategic and regular invitations to donors and prospects for meetings, to attend individual and community events.
• Create opportunities for donors to observe and learn about Fort Collins Habitat initiatives in collaboration with the CEO and CDO.
• Oversee a portfolio of annual individual donors - responsible for identifying, cultivating, soliciting, stewarding, and acknowledging.
• Provide exceptional customer service to donors via phone or email.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with teams across the organization (e.g., Marketing, Communications, Development) to ensure cohesive messaging and strategy alignment.
• Collaborate with Chief Development Officer and CEO to set goals and determine organizational needs.
• Contribute to the smooth operation by consistently documenting activity in Raiser’s Edge NXT, and building positive working relationships with colleagues in communications, construction, faith engagement, volunteer coordination, events, and finance.
• Documentation: Maintain thorough records of donor engagement opportunities, event details, and communications to support transparency and continuous improvement.

The above covers the most significant responsibilities of this position. It does not, however, exclude other duties, the inclusion of which would be in conformity with the level of the position.

The successful candidate will possess the following competencies: judgment, strategic thinking, initiative, ability to deal with ambiguity, quality decision making, integrity and trust, interpersonal savvy, listening, negotiating, presentation skills, priority setting, strategic agility, strong written communications, openness, tenacity, persistence, creativity and collaboration.

Basic Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Nonprofit Management, Communications, Business Administration, Philanthropy, or related discipline

Equivalent experience in fundraising or donor relations may be considered in lieu of a degree

Experience: 2+ years of experience in…