A positive future for every child

Southwest Human Development is Arizona’s largest nonprofit dedicated to early childhood development. The first five years of life are the most critical in a child’s development. At Southwest Human Development, our services improve lives and help families by supporting young children and their caregivers during this important time.

Your skills, experience, and passion are needed at one of the nation’s largest nonprofits dedicated to early childhood development. Join our team and experience a long-term career which brings joy and satisfaction in knowing you make a difference. We offer over 40 programs and services to more than 140,000 children.

Why choose us?

• You will build deep relationships with people and help them find fulfillment through supporting the growth and development of Arizona’s children.
• You will be rewarded with benefits, including day one, zero contribution health plan options, wellness programming, and generous paid time off.
• You will benefit from high-quality paid training to promote professional growth and development.
• You can bring creativity, working with the development team to create new strategies, communications plans and engagement for major gifts donors.
• You will have clear annual fundraising, stewardship and prospecting goals.

Job title:

Major Gifts Manager

Job description:

This role will help establish a Major Gifts program to build deep and meaningful relationships with donors and prospects for solicitation of significant donations. 

Program details:

The Development team is responsible for raising funds to support programs that would not exist without support from the community. Our team mission is to generate enthusiasm for SWHD’s mission by building deep and meaningful relationships with donors and the community. 

 In this role you will:

1. Work closely with a skilled and experienced team to build out a new Major Gifts program at Southwest Human Development
2. Identify, cultivate and solicit new prospects with the capacity to make substantial gifts.
3. Utilize your time to build relationships with prospective supporters of SWHD.
4. Develop stewardship plans, events and engagements to recruit and cultivate major gifts.
5. Utilize our CRM Database for daily tasks tracking and documentation of all interactions.
6. You will manage a portfolio of not less than 75 donors and prospective donors.
7. Attend 10-20 in-person visits with prospects each month.

If you don't think you can meet every qualification above, we still encourage you to apply. We value both current experience and future potential!

What it takes:

• Experience as a Major Gift fundraiser
• Ability to speak passionately, ask questions and discover motivations of people
• People like you, you like people.
• Ability to lift 35 lbs
• Valid Arizona Driver’s License
• Registered vehicle with valid auto insurance.
• Valid Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card - OR - must qualify for a valid Arizona Level One Fingerprint Clearance Card.

Learn more

Our core values embody Southwest Human Development’s commitment to services that uplift the lives of children, families and other care providers, and the communities in which they live. These values are intended to guide the professional development, ethical conduct and skilled practice of all our staff, whatever their specific role within the agency. All staff are valued as making essential contributions to strengthening the foundation that Arizona’s children need for a great start in life. Learn more about our values and benefits here.