Major Gifts Officer

Title
:
Major Gifts Officer

Department
:
Development

FLSA
:
Exempt

Starting Salary Range
: $71,550.36 - $82,925.50

Status
:
Full Time

Hours Per Week: 40 (applicants who prefer 30 hours will be considered)

Reports to: Director of Major Gifts

Marion Polk Food Share is the regional food bank serving Marion and Polk counties. Support from our local community makes it possible for the Food Share to collect and distribute nutritious food for children, adults, and seniors through more than 80 partner programs, including food pantries, meal sites and home-delivered meals and to carry out programs to address the root causes of hunger.

“to bring people together to end hunger and its root causes.”

At the Food Share, our commitment is to:

• Treat all people as our neighbor.
• Encourage creativity and be willing to take risks.
• Listen first and seek to understand.
• Focus on shared goals.
• Celebrate diversity, ensure dignity, and act equitably.

The Major Gifts Officer raises funds for Marion Polk Food Share’s mission by soliciting leadership-level support from a portfolio of assigned major donors. Through donor-centered relationship building, the Major Gifts Officer creates individual donor plans for each donor that include personalized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship outreach and activities.

• Maintains a portfolio of 150 Marion Polk Food Share donors who are giving leadership-level gifts.
• Develops and maintains written personalized donor plans for each qualified donor in portfolio that includes cultivation, solicitation and stewardship outreach and activities.
• Engages with qualified donors to deepen their connection to the work of the Food Share that they support through correspondence, emails, phone calls and in-person meetings.
• Develops personalized gift proposals, involving Food Share leadership as needed, to solicit donors for leadership-level gifts.
• Sets giving goals for each donor and monitors progress toward goals throughout the year.
• Ensures donors are receiving prompt acknowledgement and meaningful information about their support.
• Engages Food Share leadership in donor relationships as needed.
• Qualifies donors for portfolio as needed.
• Meets with Director of Major Gifts weekly to review donor strategies and track progress.
• Ensures donor interactions and information are kept updated in Food Share’s donor database.
• Attends all Food Share donor events.
• During capital projects and/or special fundraising initiatives, collaborates with development leadership and/or counsel to engage assigned donors as appropriate to each donor’s plan.
• Works collaboratively with members of the development team to support other development activities and achieve team goals.
• Other duties as assigned.

Work may be performed at a workstation while using a telephone and sitting at a computer screen for extended periods and throughout other venues in the community. May occasionally lift, move, and carry objects more than 30 pounds. Work is subject to varying indoor and outdoor temperatures and road and walkway surface in all seasons. May work or travel out of the local area and work outside normal working hours, such as evenings and weekends on occasion.

Work more than 40 hours per week during peak business periods may occasionally be required.

Remote work may be available for this position. All remote work assignments begin, end, or change only with supervisory approval.

• Bachelor’s degree and 5 or more years of relevant full-time work experience OR an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience.
• Major gift fundraising experience particularly soliciting and securing major gifts.
• Capital campaign experience preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products and experience with computer databases and tools.
• Must possess Oregon driver’s license, acceptable driving history for the last three years and willingness to travel to meetings throughout Marion and Polk counties.
• Must pass pre-employment drug screen (excluding THC) and full background check,…