What are the responsibilities and job description for the Major Gifts Officer position at Derby Academy?
Derby Academy is hiring a Major Gifts Officer to join the Advancement team as it embarks on an ambitious comprehensive campaign. With deep knowledge of best practice major gift strategies and previous campaign experience, the Major Gifts Officer will be a strategic, creative, ambitious, and dynamic externally facing fundraiser charged with deepening relationships with existing donors and developing connections to new prospects to grow philanthropic revenue.
Reporting to the Director of Advancement, this position will:
- Manage a portfolio of approximately 100 – 125 alumni, parents, alumni parents, volunteers, and friends.
- Secure five and six-figure major gifts, as well as annual leadership gifts, from assigned prospects.
- Develop strategies to expand the current base of philanthropic revenue sources.
- Enhance donor stewardship practice to retain and grow current donor base.
- Build a robust alumni relations program to support major gift solicitations and develop a healthy pipeline of prospective donors to ensure that long-term sustainability of Derby’s philanthropic program.
- Support the Derby Council, a group of alumni, alumni parents, former faculty and former Trustee volunteer leaders dedicated to advancing the mission of Derby Academy.
- Assist with student-facing school duties as assigned, such as lunch duty or pickup/dropoff.
