Major Gifts Officer

The Major Gifts Officer is a frontline fundraising role responsible for managing a portfolio of major gift donors and prospects to support Eddy House’s mission and annual fundraising goals. This position reports directly to the Development Director. The Development Director retains responsibility for the overall major gift strategy, portfolio assignment, and approval of solicitation plans. Within that framework, the Major Gifts Officer is responsible for executing major gifts strategies, including donor cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship activities within their assigned portfolio.

The Major Gifts Officer works under the direction of the Development Director and in coordination with the CEO, Development Team, and organization leadership to ensure donor engagement aligns with Eddy House’s priorities and funding needs. This role supports the growth of the major gifts pipeline, donor retention, and revenue generation through direct relationship management, strategic stewardship, and fundraising activity.

• Manage a portfolio of major gift donors and prospects, including qualification, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, and ongoing relationship management.
• Develop and maintain individualized moves management plans for assigned donors and prospects, aligned with overall fundraising priorities and strategies.
• Identify, research, and qualify prospective major donors whose philanthropic interests align with Eddy House's mission, programs, and organizational priorities.
• Build and strengthen meaningful relationships with individuals, families, businesses, civic leaders, foundations, and community partners with the capacity to make transformational investments.
• Conduct regular donor meetings, phone calls, facility tours, follow‑up conversations, and personalized outreach to advance donor relationships.
• Collaborate with Development Director and CEO on donor strategy.

• Make direct gift solicitations and help secure major gifts, multi‑year commitments, campaign gifts, planned gifts, foundation gifts, corporate gifts, and other significant contributions as appropriate.
• Prepare donor briefing materials, solicitation strategies, proposals, grant‑related discussions, impact updates, acknowledgment letters, and stewardship communications.
• Support grant applications, proposals, and reports for foundation, corporate, or donor‑directed gifts that the Major Gifts Officer helps cultivate, solicit, or steward.
• Coordinate with the Development Director and relevant program or finance staff to gather accurate information, outcomes, budgets, and impact data for proposals and reports tied to assigned donors or solicited gifts.
• Track reporting deadlines, donor restrictions, deliverables, and stewardship requirements connected to assigned major gifts, foundation gifts, corporate gifts, and donor‑directed contributions.
• Work with the Development Director to execute established annual fundraising goals, solicitation strategies, and portfolio objectives.
• Support the Development Director and executive leadership in preparing for donor meetings, cultivation opportunities, proposal submissions, grant‑related conversations, and major gift solicitations.

• Ensure donors and funders within the Major Gifts Officer’s portfolio receive timely, accurate, and meaningful reports, updates, acknowledgments, and impact communications.
• Partner with program and leadership staff to understand organizational priorities and communicate funding needs, outcomes, and impact clearly and compellingly to donors and funders.
• Maintain accurate and comprehensive donor records in the donor database, including contact notes, donor interests, giving history, follow‑up actions, proposals, reports, funding restrictions, and solicitation status.
• Monitor portfolio activity and prepare regular reports on progress toward fundraising goals, moves management benchmarks, proposal activity, and stewardship obligations.
• Provide thoughtful and personalized donor recognition and stewardship to strengthen relationships, encourage retention, and support increased giving overtime.
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