Associate Director of Major Gifts
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Fòs Feminista
Remote (global)- Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management
- Job type: Job
- Humanitarian or Development: Development
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Remote (global)
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Renumeration: $107,150 / yearly
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Location: United States
About Fòs Feminista
Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.
Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights and needs of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Fòs Feminista orchestrates transnational and transregional action by connecting partners throughout the SRHRJ ecosystem, amplifying innovative partner-led solutions to SRHRJ issues, and catalyzing funding and political will for an intersectional feminist agenda on SRHRJ.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement a major gifts strategy to meet annual revenue targets, increasing giving each year from individual donors with the capacity to make annual gifts of $10,000 or more.
- Strengthen engagement and build relationships with major donors and prospects through ongoing communication and virtual or face-to-face meetings.
- Organize special events for donors and prospects in key geographic hubs in the United States as well as donor trips to visit Fòs Feminista partner organizations in the Global South, fostering authentic connection to the work of our partners and the women, girls, and gender-diverse people they reach.
- Make direct solicitations to major donors and support Fòs Feminista’s senior leadership and board members to do so effectively.
- Establish KPIs for the major donor program and review the status of the portfolio regularly to track progress and adjust individual and group strategies accordingly.
- Execute and/or supervise the writing, design, and production of major donor appeals and cultivation materials, in collaboration with an external fundraising agency, and the development of impact reports for select donors.
- Develop and sustain collaborative working relationships with programs and advocacy staff to gather stories of impact and devise new fundraising strategies to meet the needs of Fòs Feminista’s local partners.
- Collaborate with the Philanthropy Lead and Senior Philanthropy Advisor to implement a planned giving outreach strategy for the major donor portfolio, and identify major donors who are planned giving prospects.
- Execute and/or supervise research on prospects and current donors and the preparation of donor profiles and briefing memos.
Minimum Qualifications
- Minimum of 6-7 years of frontline fundraising experience and a proven track record of cultivating, soliciting and closing five- and six-figure gifts
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field required
- A deep understanding of and commitment to sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice through an intersectional feminist lens
- A solid understanding of the philanthropic sector in the United States; knowledge of feminist approaches to philanthropy preferred
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to build relationships and inspire action from donors
- Professional working proficiency in English required
- Ability and willingness to travel within the United States, and to Latin America and other Global South locations as required
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