Community Gift Officer

Job Title: Community Gift Officer

Job Summary (full time, exempt):

This Bishop Dudley Hospitality House leadership position is responsible for acquiring and engaging benefactors to support the Bishop Dudley Hospitality House through direct response channels. This position is responsible for managing and growing the endowment fund as well as raising money to be used toward the general operating budget for the Hospitality House and Center for Families. This position will serve as relationship manager for all benefactors and donor prospects. This individual is responsible for the annual giving program and all of its components: mass market, annual giving and direct response campaigns, direct mail/email, electronic philanthropy, peer-to-peer philanthropy and special event fundraising. This position will also supervise the Development & Marketing Manager. It is important to note that this position will not be responsible for event coordination, but rather its sole focus will be on engaging with donors.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serves as a relationship manager for all benefactors and donor prospects
• Establishes an annual plan that includes strategies for all fund initiatives including benchmarking, establishing measurable goals, results reporting, and evaluation of projects
• Manages and grows the endowment fund
• Plans, organizes, and conducts yearly acquisition and renewal campaign for giving groups
• Designs, implements, monitors and evaluates direct mail program.
• Develops direct response giving schedule for all mail and electronic philanthropy collateral with special attention to renewal, acquisition, and upgrade goals
• Develops internal culture of philanthropy by developing giving statements and creating fundraising materials
• Hires, develops, trains, and evaluates Development & Marketing Manager
• Recruits, engages and steward benefactors and community members to participate in fundraising activities to support Bishop Dudley Hospitality House objectives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is required.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a non-profit organization with a successful track record in fundraising, strategy development, donor communications, and partnership building
• Demonstrated record of successfully raising annual and major gift-level commitments
• Experience in comprehensive fundraising campaigns and/or special giving efforts.
• Experience in engaging and utilizing key Board member and volunteer relationships.
• Experience setting personal and team benchmarks, regularly measuring success against goals, and being accountable for development outcomes.
• Certified Fundraising Executive (CFRE) is preferred.

Skills and Abilities:

• Must possess the required level of skills and abilities to read, write, speak, and apply mathematical concepts and sound reasoning to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities of this job.
• Must be able to perform basic operations on a personal computer within the Windows operating system.
• This position requires problem solving skills, critical thinking skills, and the ability to multi-task.

Physical Demands:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and /or sit for the majority of the work day, regularly walking, bending, stooping and lifting items weighing ten (10) pounds. The vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The employee will work with a large number of individuals, often requiring multi-tasking and working with deadlines and details to ensure all of the essential functions are performed in a timely and courteous manner. Confidentiality is of utmost importance.

Position reports to: Executive Director