Major Gifts Officer

Position Overview: 
Major Gifts Officer at Global Outreach International (GOI) requires a skilled major gift officer to achieve major gift fundraising objectives. This person’s primary responsibility will be the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of major gift prospects capable of gifts $5,000 or greater. This involves prospect research, developing effective solicitation strategies, and stewarding donors throughout the major-giving process. This individual will also work with our board members and staff leaders to coordinate and execute long-term fundraising initiatives. The Major Gifts Officer reports to the Vice-President of Development (VPD) and is primarily a remote-based position with domestic and international travel as appropriate. 
 
Responsibilities | Major Gifts 
·      Responsible for raising major gifts through pledges, outright gifts, or deferred gifts.
·       Identify and research major gift donor prospects. 
·       Grow relationships with major gift donors (individuals, churches, corporations), including contacting major gift donors regularly. 
·       Plan and execute a development plan, which includes identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of major gift prospects and donors ($5,000+), while working independently or collaboratively with volunteers.
·       Manage a major gift prospect base of between 100 – 125 qualified major gift prospects including those top prospects requiring attention from organizational leadership.
·       Execute 20+ contacts per month with at least half being personal, direct contact. Must be able to travel as needed.
·       Track and assess major gift fundraising metrics. 
·       Work collaboratively with the board, staff, and volunteers on fundraising initiatives, including special events. 
·       Document gifts and pledges and adhere to policies and procedures for accepting, recording, and acknowledging gifts.
·       Monitor and enter all activities in the CRM system in an accurate and timely manner.
·       Provide thoughtful, consistent, and appropriate donor stewardship including invitations to events and impact reports.
 
Responsibilities | Other  
·       Develop strategies that support the growth and development of the Development department. 
·       Assists in facilitating Missionary Orientation and Training. 
·       Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned. 
 
Leadership and Values 
·       Encourages innovation, maximizes productivity, ensures professional excellence, maintains high-quality standards, and actively promotes teamwork. 
·       Promotes a culture of professional growth within GOI through coaching, mentoring, and professional development. 
·       Cultivates a strong, collaborative working relationship with other GOI team members in the Home Office and in the mission field. 
·       Demonstrates commitment to GOI’s mission to show and share Christ’s love. 
·       Demonstrates honesty, sincerity, humility, and respect for individuals while modeling GOI’s Core Values. 
·       Shares agreement with GOI’s Statement of Beliefs. 
·       Possesses commitment to following the principles embodied within GOI’s corporate culture including: maintaining a personal commitment to participate in a fellowship of believers, working through conflict in a biblical manner, encouraging direct and truthful communication, and striving to integrate our biblical beliefs into our daily lives, with our interactions with others, and into our decision-making processes. 
 
Qualifications: 
·       Results-oriented with professional characteristics that include leadership, commitment to confidentiality, flexibility, team-orientation, attention to detail and sensitivity to the stewardship of long-term relationships.
·       A thorough background in fundraising best practices and donor databases for managing donor and solicitation records. 
·       Experience cultivating and maintaining donors in a mission-driven organization.
·       Ideal candidate will have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
·       Candidate must show attention to detail and the ability to balance strategic and scheduled responsibilities.
·       International missions experience preferred. 
·       Ability to engage GOI’s mission statement, exemplify GOI’s core values, identify with GOI’s statement of beliefs, and embrace GOI’s corporate culture. 
·       Experience working in cross-cultural environments with a demonstrated understanding of missions’ work and relevant related issues. 
·       Experience with leading others to accomplish strategic goals and objectives. 
·       Experience with developing and accessing processes that aid in facilitating objectives. 
·       Ability to communicate professionally and to represent GOI to a wide variety of individuals, both internally and externally. 
·       Experience in using office technologies and software to accomplish tasks. 
·       Demonstrated ability to achieve results with minimal supervision. 
·       Experience in a supervisory or managerial role is beneficial. 
·       An undergraduate degree required with preference given for religious studies, seminary, business, government, or public administration. Graduate degree preferred. 
 
Benefits: 
Competitive salary and excellent benefits package including medical insurance, retirement plan, plus vacation, holiday, and sick leave plans. 
 
Salary: 
Salary is driven by competitive regional market factors with considerations for the candidate’s education and experience.