Major Gifts Officer

KEY DETAILS:

• Location:
  
  New York, NY or Boston, MA preferred, but not required
• Salary: $98,/year, commensurate with experience
• Benefits:
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Join Keshet as we resiliently work for the full equality of LGBTQ+ Jews and our families, amidst historic rises in anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and hate toward our communities. As our Major Gifts Officer, you will play a key role in strengthening the fundraising engine that powers LGBTQ+ belonging in Jewish life across North America. This is Keshet's senior-most position leading our individual giving work, in partnership with the CEO.

In this role, you will inspire our supporters to deepen their investment, cultivating and stewarding relationships with prospective and current major donors nationwide, and fostering an active culture of philanthropy across the organization. Building on Keshet's passionate base of supporters, you will strengthen donor relationships, seek out new champions for our cause, and help fuel the resources that turn our mission into action.

This role is a great fit for an ambitious, entrepreneurial leader who is energized by the art of relationship-building. As our Major Gifts Officer, you are a compelling storyteller and communicator who enjoys the full arc of the fundraising relationship, from that first connection through years of deepening partnership.

Reporting to and collaborating closely with our CEO, and working alongside a passionate team of colleagues across the country, you will play a key role in strengthening Keshet's community of supporters and raising the funds needed to sustain and grow our impactful work.

Keshet works for the full equality of all LGBTQ+ Jews and our families in Jewish life. We turn values at the heart of Judaism-equality, inclusion, and human dignity-into action in Jewish communities across North America. We equip Jewish organizations with the tools to build LGBTQ+-affirming communities; create spaces for LGBTQ+ Jewish youth and LGBTQ+ Jews of Color to feel joy and belonging;

and advance LGBTQ+ rights nationwide.

As an organization that teaches the importance of proactive LGBTQ+ affirming messages and actions, Keshet recognizes the similar need to make our commitment to racial equity and justice clear and explicit. We embed a racial equity and justice lens into Keshet's leadership and staff structure, political analysis, organizational policies, communications, and program content.

Keshet's national office is in Boston with offices in San Francisco, Chicago, South Florida, Texas, and New York, as well, and other staff across the United States.

• Manage a robust portfolio of prospective, and lapsed major donors, developing and executing individualized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies.
• Encourage existing donors to make larger and/or longer-term gifts that meet Keshet's priorities and support donors' own philanthropic goals.
• Identify, qualify, and engage new major donor prospects through research, referrals, events, and community relationships.
• Build meaningful donor relationships through regular meetings, personalized outreach, and thoughtful stewardship.
• Partner with executive leadership and board members to develop and expand donor relationships, advising them on donor engagement and solicitation.
• Develop a comprehensive plan to upgrade current donors and identify and solicit new donors to meet budgeted goals.
• Document and prepare content for solicitation, cultivation, and development events, correspondence, strategic fundraising plans, reports and tailored proposals.
• Maintain accurate, up-to-date donor records in Salesforce CRM - including meeting notes, research, and stage tracking - and use CRM reporting and analytics to inform strategy, monitor portfolio performance, and measure fundraising outcomes.
• Plan and executive donor engagement events and prospecting/stewardship visits.

• Partner with colleagues across Keshet to strengthen organization-wide major donor engagement and foster a culture of philanthropy.
• Develop deep fluency…