Major Gift Director - Higher Ed. jobs in Portland, OR

Dougy Center (DC) is seeking an experienced Major Gift Officer with demonstrated success in acquiring, cultivating, and soliciting donors to join our organization during a time of growth and innovation. For more than 40 years, Dougy Center has led the nation in providing grief support for children, teens, and young adults. This new team member will join organizational leadership in developing and executing a campaign to significantly expand our ability to serve grieving children, as well as supporting the organization by raising funds for general operations.

The Campaign:

Dougy Center is currently in the pre-planning phase of a campaign to expand our reach of services to the Westside of the Portland Metro Area. The campaign will address three key priorities: 1) The purchase and renovation of a building in Washington County. 2) A Resilience Fund to ensure Dougy Center’s success as we grow to doubling the number of children and families we serve. 3) A Renovation Fund to cover some needed updates to the Dougy Center East campus.

This is a new position for the campaign, and for Dougy Center. Working with the Chief Advancement Officer and key staff, the Major Gift Officer will successfully cultivate prospects leading towards leadership level gifts to the campaign, as well as cultivating and soliciting Dougy Center donors for other major projects. This position will come to DC with their own skills, ready to share their knowledge, and gain additional skills through collaboration with their colleagues.

Job Title: Major Gift Officer

Status: Full-time, Exempt

Scheduled Work Hours/Location: Hybrid with weekly in office hours mandatory. Occasional evenings & weekends expected.

Reports to: Chief Advancement Officer

Summary:

Reporting to the Chief Advancement Officer, the Major Gifts Officer will be tasked with developing and executing strategies to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors and prospects with a focus on gifts of $10,000 . The Gift Officer will make meaningful connections with donors whose interests and passions align with the continued success of Dougy Center’s mission, presenting them giving opportunities, encouraging them to invest in the growth and sustainability of the organization, and will steward their gifts to ensure retention and increased involvement. The successful candidate will: identify prospective new donors; educate them about Dougy Center and the campaign for expansion, cultivate them for solicitation with respect to right timing and right purposes, and steward these donors and their gifts to Dougy Center. The candidate's performance will be measured by the number of substantive visits made and gifts raised.

Essential Functions:

· Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift prospects

· Manage a portfolio of approximately120 donors and prospects through a cycle of personal engagement and relationship development to secure major gift support

· Create a cultivation and solicitation strategy for each donor in the portfolio and directly solicit major gifts in support of Dougy Center and the Westside Campaign, as well as for general operations and planned gifts as appropriate

· Work alongside Executive Director, Chief Advancement Officer, the Board of Directors, and campaign volunteers to develop giving opportunities in the context of the current campaign

· Develop and assist with stewardship events and meetings involving the Executive Director, Chief Advancement Officer, other Dougy Center staff, and volunteers

· Work with program and communications staff to create appropriate project information, including budgets and proposals, that will be used for targeted solicitations

· Other duties as assigned by the Chief Advancement Officer

Qualifications:

· A heart for Dougy Center’s mission and a significant level of comfort with conversations about death, dying, and grief

· Natural relationship-builder who can identify and make authentic connections between people’s philanthropic goals and the mission and needs of Dougy Center

· Confident and comfortable presenter in both one-on-one and group settings

· Effective storytelling skills and a good sense of humor

· Successful experience developing cultivation and solicitation strategies

· Energetic team player who is driven by managing & cultivating relationships that result in passionate, transformative gifts

· Experience interacting with business and community leaders to engage and represent the organization well

· Experience and willingness to track work in a donor database and managing multiple projects with competing deadlines

· Ability to create, collaborate and maintain strong working relationships with external and internal partners (including staff and volunteers) from diverse communities with respect and attention to belonging, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion

· Willingness to help promote a culture of philanthropy throughout the organization

· Ability to appropriately manage confidential & sensitive material

· Ability to work a flexible work schedule – some evening and weekend work required

Experience:

· 3-5 years of successful fundraising experience in a nonprofit environment, with a minimum of two years direct experience as major gift portfolio manager. Capital campaign experience preferred but not required.

· Experience creating individual donor plans for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship

· Demonstrated ability to cultivate and solicit high net worth individuals, with a proven track record in closing five- and six-figure gifts

· Demonstrated successful experience with supporting and motivating volunteer solicitors

· Proficiency with the tools designed to support major gifts work, such as CRM donor databases

Dougy Center is committed to providing support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults, and their family members who are grieving a death can share their experiences. Through our Pathways program we provide a safe place for families facing an advanced serious illness. With this mission and with the well-being of all grieving families in our community in mind, we will demonstrate Dougy Center’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and specifically, fair, and inclusive access to meaningful and relevant resources and services for all grieving people in our community. We are committed to engaging in intentional dialogue to foster a community based on our organizational values of respect, integrity, stewardship, and excellence.

Salary range: $78K - $82K per year, commensurate with experience and other qualifications. Please indicate required salary in your cover letter.

Outstanding benefits package including:

Medical, Dental, Vision, HSA, 401 (K) match, EAP, generous vacation policy, option for partial work from home.

• To apply please send a cover letter, resume, and three professional references to our search consultant, Catherine Crooker, Crooker Consulting LLC, catherine@crookerconsulting.com.

To learn more go to: https://www.dougy.org/about/team-dougy/join-team-dougy

Review of applicants to begin no later than April 1. Position open until filled.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities but constitutes a general definition of the position’s scope and function in the organization.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $78,000.00 - $82,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Evenings as needed
• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Ability to Relocate:

• Portland, OR 97206: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Portland, OR 97206