Senior Specialist, Major Gifts

🕒 September 18

🌵 Arizona, California, +15 more states – Remote

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💵 $89.3k - $111.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

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National Immigration Law Center

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1979

⚖️ Legal

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Legal • Non-profit • Social Impact

National Immigration Law Center is a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that advances the rights and opportunities of low-income immigrants and their families through litigation, policy advocacy, legal resources, public education, and campaigns. The organization focuses on areas including DACA, border and asylum policy, workers’ rights, health care access, K–12 education, economic justice, enforcement and detention, driver’s licenses, and democracy defense, and it provides know-your-rights materials, rapid legal updates, and strategic lawsuits to protect immigrant communities.

📋 Description

• Manage a portfolio of 80-120 major donors and prospects with capacity to make annual gifts of $5,000+ • Develop and execute short- and long-term major giving strategies • Develop messaging and coordinated communications strategies for major donors • Conduct donor and prospect research • Cultivate, solicit, and steward donors through virtual meetings, phone calls, personalized mail, and in-person meetings • Record donor interactions and meeting reports in the database • Meet portfolio goals for donor meetings and personalized contacts • Plan and execute donor cultivation events, salons, Emersonian Dinners, and similar major-gift events • Establish and execute a communications calendar for the major gifts audience • Develop personalized donor proposals and stewardship reports • Prepare donor briefings and memoranda for organizational leadership • Support stewardship and outreach by NILC and IJF board members • Identify prospects, transition donors into the major gifts program, and develop upgrade strategies • Monitor and analyze revenue performance and donor strategy • Maintain donor engagement and moves-management records in Raiser’s Edge • Represent NILC and stay informed about its local, state, and national work • Collaborate with development, communications, operations, senior leadership, and program staff

🎯 Requirements

• High School diploma required • 7-10+ years of experience required, including at least two years in the nonprofit industry, specifically nonprofit fundraising • Progressive responsibility and a proven record of securing visits with prospective donors and soliciting, closing, and stewarding mid and major gifts • Excellent interpersonal, oral, written communication, and presentation skills • Strong organizational skills • Ability to develop long-term plans, set objectives, and track progress • Proficiency with MS Office, internet research, virtual collaboration tools, and in-office and virtual environments • Experience with and strategic use of at least one advanced CRM • Familiarity with moves management preferred • Experience with Raiser’s Edge NXT database preferred • Commitment to NILC & IJF’s mission and human rights, racial, economic, and social justice, and equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice • Flexibility to travel and work occasional evenings and/or weekends for donor meetings and events • Must live in one of the specified remote work locations

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D, STD, and LTD insurance • Healthcare and dependent care FSA • Wellness, phone, and internet stipends and/or reimbursements • Generous paid time off • Robust holiday schedule • Employee assistance program (EAP) • Additional voluntary insurance packages • Up to 25% overnight interstate travel may be required