Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving

Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving

Remote

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Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia – one of the most popular websites in the world, serving nearly half a billion users every month. It is the only non-profit in the top 50 websites, supported by a community of millions of individual donors. Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge.

We are looking for a Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving to lead the team responsible for our $10,000 fundraising and planned giving efforts. These fundraising programs support both the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment. The person in this role will play a critical part in our growing major gifts program, as it becomes an increased focus of our diversified revenue plan. They will also lead the strategy and implementation driving the maturation of our planned giving program.

Succeeding in our global and distributed environment requires taking an entrepreneurial approach to strategy, using both traditional fundraising methods and a willingness to try new techniques that fit the needs of our current and prospective donors and align with our strategy and values.

You are responsible for :

• Retaining, recruiting and managing a team of fundraising professionals and consultants; establishing work plans, performance objectives, and goals for each team member and regularly reviewing performance; providing professional development and training required to cultivate staff skills and professionalism.
• Achieving annual major gifts ($10K ) and planned giving targets; collaborating with other leaders in the fundraising program to develop donor journeys that funnel mid-level prospects into the major donor audience.
• Collaborating with the Sr. Director of Development on the development of a sustainable major giving strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikimedia Endowment, including the implementation of the major gifts portion of the second 10-year, $100M campaign for the Wikimedia Endowment.
• Leading the ongoing development of the planned giving program and building a robust pipeline of planned giving commitments that will provide support for the Wikimedia movement for decades to come.
• Partnering with the Sr. Director of Development, Major Gifts Stewardship Manager, and Fundraising Events Manager to further develop the events strategy to support increasing individual and planned giving fundraising; strengthening the stewardship and donor recognition program, with the objective of establishing lifelong relationships with major and planned giving donors.
• Collaborating with the Endowment Board of Trustees to develop fundraising strategy, lead fundraising implementation and identify potential new board members.
• Ensuring the cultivation and stewardship of a diverse portfolio of existing donors and donor prospects, including undertaking direct individual donor solicitations and cultivating high value relationships. As appropriate, working closely with top-level executives and board members on these efforts, by matching senior leaders to development opportunities and specific donors.
• In collaboration with the Major Gifts Stewardship Manager, overseeing portfolio management, major donor prospecting, and systems support for gift officers to identify and qualify new major donors.
• Partnering with managers and subject matter experts across the fundraising program to define cross-team strategies, goals, and help set up the structure for execution, including for planned giving marketing.
• Generating creative solutions to improve donor experience and fundraising performance, considering current capacities and donor interests.
• Coordinating with other teams and departments in the Wikimedia Foundation to realize opportunities and enhance organizational impact.

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About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.

As an equal opportunity employer, the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race, traits historically associated with race, religion, color, national origin, sex, pregnancy or related medical conditions, parental status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40 countries. Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 134,147 to US$ 203,434 with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay. For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire. We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants. The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location.

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Salary : $134,147 - $203,434