Institutional Giving Officer

We are looking for an Institutional Giving Officer to join our team at Project Success. Project Success is a youth development nonprofit organization that helps students connect to their purpose. We work with more than 17,000 6th-12th grade students and their families annually and have more than 225,000 alumni around the world. Learn more .

The Institutional Giving Officer is responsible for identifying, soliciting, and stewarding corporate and foundational funders to meet the organizational giving goal. They work with the Senior Director of Advancement to develop fundraising plans, strategies, and key tactics that increase the organization’s philanthropic and in‑kind support from corporations, foundations, and other organizations.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Advancement and is part of the Advancement team at Project Success.

Our ideal candidate has a successful track record of developing annual fundraising plans, meeting annual goals, building relationships with a variety of constituents, and analyzing the effectiveness of fundraising efforts. They have excellent organizational, collaboration, and communication skills needed to work with various internal and external partners. They are trustworthy with a high sense of integrity and are able to nurture relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.

They also approach fundraising with a clear understanding of and commitment to equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility.

• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Advancement and the Advancement team to create and execute annual institutional development plans, develop portfolio goals, and track and report on progress
• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Advancement to meet contributed revenue (cash and in‑kind) goals
• Work closely with the Senior Director of Advancement and the Executive Director to drive the strategic goals of the organization and collaborate across teams to successfully achieve goals

• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Advancement, Executive Director, and Board volunteers to lead efforts in identifying, cultivating, securing, and stewarding major corporate, foundation, and institutional donors
• Prepare proposals, budgets, and reports customized for grants, sponsor ships, and funding partnerships
• Manage portfolio of funders, sponsors, and prospects needed to meet the annual institutional giving goal
• Maintain an active presence in corporate and foundation giving networks to build relationships with current and prospective funders
• Collaborate with the Advancement team on funder relations strategies to steward and cultivate relationships with supporters, including acknowledgement letters, reports, e‑newsletters, website content, impact reports and fundraising campaigns and events

• Oversee the management of funder, sponsor, and institutional gift data in Raiser’s Edge carried out by the Advancement Operations Manager
• Establish and maintain strong systems for gift tracking and acknowledgement, funder/sponsor stewardship and cultivation, and institutional communications, including requested reports and informal updates
• Utilize tools available in Raiser’s Edge to accurately manage, analyze and report on fundraising progress, strengthen systems for data management, and extract information needed to plan and execute fundraising activities

Other Duties as Assigned

We are looking for individuals that are passionate about the success of our students and share the mission, vision, and values of Project Success.

Project Success motivates and inspires young people to dream about the future, helps them take steps to get there and gives them the tools they need to achieve their goals.

Every child entering middle school will graduate high school with a plan for their future and have the skills and confidence that will take them through the rest of their lives.

• Kids First!
• Dependability, Reliability, and Trust
• A Non‑Judgmental Environment
• Willingness to Grow and Change
• Love is the…