Donor Engagement Officer

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Alight is a proximity-driven humanitarian organization that restores power and agency to people experiencing displacement. For nearly 50 years, we’ve walked alongside our customers – displaced communities – in some of the most challenging and complex places in the world. Regardless of role or responsibility in this organization, we center the choices, dignity, and lived experience of people we serve – even when it complicates the work.

We live our values at each step of our shared journey. At our best, our commitment to displaced people is sustained, relational, and grounded in trust.

Alight’s purpose is to inspire and unleash abundance in every person, and our mission is to build a meaningful life for and with the displaced. This means not simply addressing basic needs, but building lives filled with joy, dignity, and connection.

Alight takes a collaborative, human-centered approach. Unlike traditional humanitarian aid, we co-create solutions hand in hand with displaced communities, who know best what they need.

You’re on a team ambitiously advancing the work of Alight by actively engaging donors, supporters, and partners in a way that is meaningful to them and promotes Alight’s work worldwide.

The Annual Fund team communicates with and appeals to donors and potential donors through multiple channels and various giving and engagement opportunities primarily In Order to r aise unrestricted revenue to support Alight’s worldwide programs, improve the quality of our work, and promote the overall strategy to increase co-creation and improve the quality of programs

The Donor Engagement Officer works in conjunction with the Annual Fund Director and leadership team to implement dynamic and successful donor relations and annual giving programs in support of Alight ’ s mission and fundraising goals. This role is charged with growing donor engaged and involvement, as well as successfully facilitating annual giving programs.

This role interacts with donors at the $ 10 k-2 0 k annual giving level as a gifts officer, setting and managing engagement efforts and priorities for a portfolio of annual fund donors.

Here ’ s how you could anticipate spending your time:

• Work with the Annual Fund Director to implement a successful annual giving strategy, with an eye toward the long-term and consistent success of all fundraising needs of the organization
• Manage a portfolio of very engaged middle donors. Your primary responsibility is with donors and prospects (approx. $ 10 k-2 0 k), cultivating, soliciting and stewarding through frequent contact. You ’ ll also work to develop and maintain a system of communication and conversation with less engaged middle donors. And you ’ ll make space for developing relationships with a smaller group of middle donors prospects and new donors.
• Identify donors ’ passions and interests, build relationships, and leverage those relationships into meaningful support opportunities.
• Execute gift solicitation efforts, with a particular focus on current donors, past donors and prospects; create proposals for general operating and restricted programs, including blended asks; manage toward a target annual revenue…