Donor Engagement & Grants Manager

Ignatius House seeks a thoughtful, creative, and highly organized development professional to join our team as Donor Engagement & Grants Manager

For more than 65 years, Ignatius House has offered a place of peace, reflection, and spiritual renewal on 20 wooded acres along the Chattahoochee River. Rooted in the tradition of St. Ignatius of Loyola, our ministry welcomes people from a wide range of faith traditions and backgrounds who are seeking greater clarity, meaning, healing, and connection with God.

The Donor Engagement & Grants Manager will help strengthen the relationships and resources that make this ministry possible. Working closely with the Director of Development, this person will play a meaningful role in donor communications and stewardship, fundraising appeals, foundation and grant relationships, donor events, and the careful tracking of gifts and commitments.

This is an opportunity for a development professional who enjoys both storytelling and stewardship, relationships and details — someone who can communicate the impact of a mission with warmth and clarity while also ensuring that the systems behind that work are accurate, timely, and well cared for.

At Ignatius House, fundraising begins with relationship.

You will help us communicate thoughtfully with the people who sustain this ministry — through fundraising appeals, donor updates, acknowledgement letters, impact stories, stewardship communications, and special initiatives.

You will work with the Director of Development to strengthen donor retention, renewal, and engagement, helping ensure that donors are thanked well, informed about the impact of their generosity, and invited into deeper relationship with Ignatius House.

You will also help steward commitments from our recently completed capital campaign and support the preparation of Ignatius House’s annual report.

You will help strengthen and expand Ignatius House’s foundation and institutional giving program.

This includes researching prospective funders, identifying opportunities that align with our mission and programs, preparing letters of inquiry and grant proposals, coordinating application materials, tracking deadlines, and completing reports and stewardship.

The role offers an opportunity not simply to maintain an existing grants calendar, but to help thoughtfully grow this area of support over time.

You will help maintain accurate records of gifts, pledges, donor relationships, and commitments in Bloomerang and supporting spreadsheets. You will track pledge schedules, prepare reports and mailing lists, monitor fundraising progress, and work closely with Finance to ensure gifts are recorded and reconciled accurately.

We are looking for someone who sees this work not simply as administration, but as another form of stewardship: caring well for the information donors have entrusted to us and ensuring that commitments are honored on both sides.

Ignatius House hosts gatherings throughout the year that allow us to thank donors, share the story of the ministry, and deepen relationships.

You will help coordinate these events from invitation through follow-up, working with colleagues across Ignatius House to manage guest communications, RSVPs, timelines, event materials, and the many details that help people feel genuinely welcomed.

You will also collaborate with our Marketing and Communications team and outside vendors to produce donor-facing materials for appeals, events, stewardship, and other development initiatives.

We are looking for someone with approximately 2–4 years of experience in nonprofit…