YFC National Service Center Mission Investment Officer

The Mission Investment Officer has primary responsibility for developing, growing, and sustaining giving relationships for YFC’s National Service Center, with particular focus on portfolio stewardship, donor qualification, and helping donors take their next faithful step in generosity.

This role will manage a portfolio of giving partners and prospects, including mid-level donors and major donor prospects, and will participate in the entire donor life cycle: identification, research, qualification, cultivation, invitation, stewardship, renewal, and upgrade. A key part of this role is helping the Lead of Development and broader Development team determine the appropriate donor pathway for each relationship, including whether a donor is best served through core giving, mid-level engagement, major giving, campaign cultivation, or another development strategy.

The successful candidate is a relational and disciplined development professional with demonstrated experience in fundraising, donor relations, sales, ministry partnership, or a related field. S/he should be deeply motivated by YFC’s mission to reach young people for Christ and be motivated to grow the Church by reaching young people who are far from the Church.

• Works in partnership with the Director of Development and Development team as assigned.
• Through the leading and empowerment of the Holy Spirit, helps grow and sustain the NSC’s giving partner base, operating funds, and campaign funding priorities.
• Manages a portfolio of giving partners and prospects, including mid-level donors and major donor prospects, with responsibility for ongoing relationship development, stewardship, and portfolio growth.
• Leads assigned donors and prospects through the donor life cycle, including identification, research, qualification, cultivation, invitation, stewardship, renewal, and upgrade.
• Develops and executes personalized donor strategies that deepen relationship, strengthen connection to YFC’s mission, help determine the appropriate donor pathway, and invite increased generosity at the appropriate time.
• Meets or exceeds agreed-upon goals related to donor engagement, portfolio growth, donor retention, upgrades, new partner acquisition, and stewardship activity.
• Maintains accurate and timely records of all development activity in Salesforce, including donor interactions, research, insights, next steps, stewardship activity, pledges, gift designations, and donor pathway recommendations.
• Collaborates with Marketing, Gift Processing, Finance, NSC staff, and other departments to strengthen donor experience, clarify donor intent, support campaign execution, and maximize giving.
• Supports national development events, capital campaigns, special funding initiatives, and other donor engagement opportunities as assigned.
• Speaks knowledgeably about Youth For Christ and serves as an ambassador for the mission in donor, ministry, and community settings.
• Participates in additional projects as assigned.
• Apply a Design Thinking mindset in daily work, integrating innovation and Christ-centered, human-centered problem-solving into planning, collaboration, and execution.

Because the overriding religious purpose and mission of Youth for Christ USA is to communicate and introduce the Gospel of Jesus Christ to young people and their families, and in that regard to make, educate and encourage life-long disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is very important that you as an employee in the movement of Youth for Christ be recognized as an associate minister of the Gospel.

As an employee of Youth for Christ and an associate minister of the Gospel, YFC expects all employees to:

Seek God’s guidance and wisdom, through prayer and meditation, for the organization as a whole, as well as for specific ministry initiatives.

Participate and lead regular times of prayer, devotion and worship as a regular aspect of your role within YFC.

Teach and preach from the Holy Bible at YFC staff meetings, conferences, camps and events.

Model empathy, humility and care for all people. This includes promoting equity and inclusion in words and in the practice of faith…