Description:
Division: Community Engagement/Development
Reports to: Director, Community Engagement
Work Location: Downtown Oakland Campus
Hours: Full Time, Regular
Status: Contract, Exempt
Salary Range: $70,000 - $74,000/year
The Major Gifts Officer will develop and implement strategies to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift donors for SVdP-Alameda County. This role requires building and maintaining relationships with prospective and current donors, ensuring alignment between donor interests and the organization’s priorities.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Identify and research potential major donors, creating tailored strategies for engagement.
- Develop and manage a portfolio of major gift prospects, fostering relationships through personalized communication and outreach.
- Implement stewardship plans to ensure donors are informed about the impact of their contributions and engaged in the organization’s mission.
- Work closely with the executive team, board members, and other fundraising staff to align fundraising strategies with organizational goals.
- Plan and execute donor cultivation events, ensuring an impactful experience for attendees.
- Track and analyze fundraising progress, providing regular reports to leadership on major gift activities and results.
- Attend community events and engage in networking to identify new major gift prospects.
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Strong work ethic. Willingness to work hard to accomplish difficult goals.
- Complies with written and verbal instruction and willingly performs assigned tasks.
- Accountability to supervisor and to a performance plan. Willingness to accept supervision.
- Positive attitude and ability to be a positive influence on a team.
- Demonstrates proactivity, flexibility, creativity, and enthusiasm.
- Professionalism, maturity, good decision-making and problem-solving abilities.
- Disciplined self-starter who can set and achieve goals.
- Can feel and express passion for the mission of a leading human service charity.
- Is reliable, dependable and trustworthy.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills in English (Spanish a plus).
- Ability to communicate well with external and internal customers.
- Excellent customer service skills, for both internal and external customers/stakeholders. Demonstrated ability to serve stakeholders in a professional, welcoming, and efficient manner.
- Ability to thrive in a flexible, fast-paced and growth-oriented environment, while maintaining a sense of humor and a positive, solution-oriented approach.
- Ability to work well with others, to ensure a positive, constructive environment within the program or department, and throughout the organization, and to resolve conflict and avoid difficulties.
- Cooperative, friendly, and helpful attitude with clients and co-workers.
- Attention to detail.
- Excellent administrative and organizational skills.
- Ownership of job’s responsibilities and of accomplishing goals.
- Ability to model highly professional work etiquette including informing supervisor of your activities, responding to communication in a timely manner, doing what you say you will do, respectful behavior in meetings, avoiding any behavior which could cause negative perceptions of you or of SVdP.
- Interest in seeking out additional challenges and opportunities. A commitment to ongoing learning and self-development.
- Coordinating, managing, developing, and engaging volunteers.
- Ability to utilize, engage, and develop others, including volunteers, to work enthusiastically and productively on your team.
- Ability to control unusual situations as they arise without escalating.
Requirements:
SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience writing grants and maintaining a grants calendar.
- Experience with in-person solicitations.
- Experience with cultivation and stewardship events.
- Ability to learn, understand, and model the nine core values we promote at SVdP: Vincentians, Storytelling, Grit, Accountability, Volunteerism, Kindness, Joy, Kaizen, and Engagement.
- Proficiency with Windows, Word, Excel, e-mail, and Web Browser.
- Excellent time and priority management skills. Ability to successfully manage projects from conception to completion. Ability to prioritize projects, work independently, meet deadlines, manage several projects simultaneously and work well under pressure.
- Ability to understand the financial impact of decisions, actions, and outcomes.
- Project management skills, including the ability to create and follow outlines, timelines, and reports, and to hold others accountable for completion of tasks.
- Supervisory or management experience.
- Good analytic skills and ability to make evidence-based decisions.
EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
This job description is a general description of essential job functions. It is not intended as an employment contract, nor is it intended to describe all duties that someone in this position may perform. All employees of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul are expected to perform tasks as assigned by St. Vincent de Paul’s supervisory/management personnel, regardless of job title or routine job duties.
At SVdP-Alameda County, we are an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace and candidate experience. We strive to create an environment where everyone has a sense of belonging and purpose, and where we learn from the unique experiences of those around us.
We encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
