Director of Major Gifts

Reports To

Chief Development Officer

Full-time | Exempt

$115,000 to $130,000. The Center offers a competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, 401k with employer contribution, voluntary life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance, paid parental, family care, and gender affirming healthcare leave. We also offer a generous paid time off policy.

Work week and hours fluctuate based on events schedule and will include evenings and weekends on a regular basis. Generally, Monday through Friday; a typical schedule will be 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; flexibility required. The Center currently operates under a hybrid work schedule and this position must be on-site at The Center at a minimum from Tuesday through Thursday. On-site work days can shift depending on work needs.

The Director of Major Gifts will oversee the organization’s individual giving vertical and development systems, with a primary focus on strategy development and execution of The Center’s major gifts and planned giving programs. The Director will oversee and implement individual fundraising and direct response strategies that effectively move existing prospects along the donor pipeline. The Director will cultivate and manage relationships with mid-level donors that lead to annual fund giving upgrades and greater legacy giving commitments.

They will also provide insight, reports and recommendations across the individual philanthropy vertical. The Director will manage the Individual & Planned Giving Manager and the Development Systems Manager.

• Develop a comprehensive mid-level major gifts and planned giving strategy.
• Prospect, manage and continuously refine a portfolio of ~70 qualified major gift prospects with the capacity to give $1,500 and up.
• Conduct donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities through a variety of channels to meet annual revenue targets.
• Maintain overall Major Donor and planned giving mapping tools to ensure line of sight and collaboration with CDO.
• Continuously research individual major donor prospects and leads and share with the CDO weekly to map outreach.

• Supervise the Individual and Planned Giving Manager by supporting and guiding multi-channel, mid-level and sustaining/membership donor relationship building.
• Supervise and support the efforts of the Individual and Planned Giving Manager, ensuring they have the tools and capacity to grow revenues on an annual basis.
• Explore, recommend and test new strategies and tactics, including direct response (digital and mail), monthly giving, emergency appeal and digital advertising.
• Develop and execute a planned giving strategy in partnership with Individual Planned Giving Manager that converts loyalty donors into legacy society members.
• Track giving trends (within the organization and especially across peer institutions), assess fundraising performance, and adapt strategies to ensure goal attainment.
• In partnership with the CDO and Communications and Marketing lead, craft compelling donor materials, proposals, and impact reports.

• Supervise and support the efforts of the Development Systems Manager to monitor workflow, gift volume and capacity needs, to ensure accurate and timely gift entry and reporting in Salesforce, and make process improvements as needed.
• Support critical Development systems work, synthesizing and formatting gift data across the department’s verticals, creating useful tools for tracking performance in real time.
• Provide high quality data inputs, management, and reporting to ensure accurate and timely summary of progress to goal achievement for the CDO, CEO and for reporting to the Board of Directors.
• In collaboration with the Development Systems Manager create detailed and accurate revenue and expense reports for the department.
• Work collaboratively with members of the Finance Team, to support reconciliation of revenues and expenses and the monthly revenue close, to improve efficiencies across…