Community Philanthropy: Major & Leadership Gifts Officer

Community Philanthropy Senior Developer
- Individual Giving

You will join 40+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger's root causes. Together we mobilize $40M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank's mission and realize OFB's 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropy's true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core.

As the Community Philanthropy Senior Developer
- Individual Giving, you will contribute to the organization's success through relationship development and resource mobilization, engaging complex and high-impact individual supporters and foundations to meet Community Philanthropy and Oregon Food Bank's goals and strategic priorities. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Manager
- Individual Giving with primary duties focused on relationship management with individuals and foundations, project management, and mentorship of individual giving and grants team colleagues.

The Community Philanthropy Senior Developer
- Individual Giving can perform their duties onsite with dedicated desk space within an Oregon Food Bank facility, or predominantly working from a home office while maintaining a regular in-person presence with supporters in the community and periodically-required visits to OFB facilities. Accommodations can be made and candidates are encouraged to inquire.

Primary responsibilities (essential functions) include:

• Successfully engage, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of 150 complex individual donor relationships with major, leadership, and principal gift capacity (giving capacity of $25,000 to $1,000,000+) to deepen relationships while utilizing equity-driven messaging that centers our clients, identifies systemic oppression as hunger's root cause, and furthers Oregon Food Bank and Community Philanthropy's annual goals and priorities.
• Research and plan strategies and communications that involve cross-departmental collaboration and planning in order to move these relationships forward.
• Consult with the OFB Network regarding major gifts toward annual priorities as requested and appropriate.
• Work in close collaboration with the Community Philanthropy leadership as requested to develop long-range program planning.
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.

Skills and experience required include:

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• 4 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility in relationship development and effectiveness in major, leadership, and/or principal gifts fundraising with individual supporters.
• Ability and willingness to ask for financial support from individuals. Skilled at writing proposals and reports, preparing and delivering presentations and creating donor materials that may contain technical information.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with high degree of emotional intelligence, possessing cultural agility and ability to work effectively with diverse groups of individuals and communities.
• Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.
• Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office) and donor databases, preferably Raiser's Edge. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools is a plus!
• Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.
• Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
• Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.
• Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.