Donor Relations Officer, Major Giving

Donor Relations Officer, Major Giving

WFYI Public Media

Reporting to the Donor Relations Manager, this position identifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards current and prospective major donors and secures gifts for WFYI (ranging from $1,200 to $25,000+), to reach more people, build a strong organization, and position WFYI as an essential community asset for trusted journalism, inspiring stories, and lifelong learning.

• Meets annual fundraising goals through major donor support. Identify, cultivate and solicit major gift prospects throughout the fundraising cycle, with a focus on those with a capacity to make gifts of $1,200–$25,000 and above.
• Qualifies and manages a portfolio of 135–150 donors and executes strategies for donor identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship with a goal of approximately 12–15 donor calls/visits monthly.
• Prepare solicitation strategies, briefings, written proposals, and impact reports for use during donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities.
• Creates thoughtful stewardship plans for key current and prospective donors, including impact reports, invitations to in‑person events, communication about WFYI, and key information on an ongoing basis.
• Identifies, cultivates, and solicits planned gifts and facilitates other donations from major donors, including stock, property, giving through Donor‑Advised Funds.
• Delivers excellent service to WFYI donors as their primary point of contact, building strong relationships and clearly communicating our organization’s mission.
• Maintains knowledge of organization‑wide funding priorities, case statements, and impact reports.
• Works well with volunteers and board members to ensure departmental goals and objectives are met.
• Ensures that current and prospective donor information is entered into WFYI’s organizational database in a standardized, timely, and accurate manner.
• Assists the Donor Relations Manager with implementation of tasks geared toward donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Required: Bachelor’s degree preferred along with at least 3 years of experience securing major and/or planned gifts.
• Preferred: Familiarity with public broadcasting.

• History of successfully securing gifts of $1,200–$25,000+.
• Experience qualifying donors through the Moves Management process.
• Experience or knowledge of planned giving vehicles, principles, and best practices.
• Maintain a high level of confidentiality with respect to prospects and donors.
• Proven ability to work with internal and external constituencies in a professional and courteous manner with strong collaborative abilities and enthusiasm for teamwork.
• Demonstrate excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.
• High level of creativity, initiative, and motivation; willing to work varied hours and attend off‑site events.
• Experience using a donor database and other donor management technology.
• Computer proficiency with Microsoft products (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and Canva (preferred).
• High energy and passion for WFYI Public Media’s mission and core values of operating with unquestionable integrity; collaborating with each other and with community partners; respecting everyone; serving with humility; embracing change; delivering excellence every day; sense of humor.

• Seniority level:
  Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Job function:
  Other
• Industries:
  Broadcast Media Production and Distribution