Executive Director, Principal Giving

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🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $165.6k - $184k / year

⏰ Full Time

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NPR

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1970

📱 Media

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $4.7M Grant on 2020-05

Media • Non-profit • Social Impact

NPR is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing breaking news, analysis, music, arts, and podcasts. As a prominent figure in journalism, NPR covers top stories in U. S. and world news, politics, health, science, business, and culture. Among its many offerings, NPR is known for its diverse range of podcasts and programming that include news, music, and cultural topics, thereby fulfilling its mission of public service journalism and cultural exploration.

📋 Description

• Lead strategy for NPR’s principal giving program, focusing on gifts of $1M+. • Work with the Senior Vice President for Development to define fundraising priorities and build compelling philanthropic opportunities aligned with NPR’s journalism, cultural programming, and civic mission. • Partner with executive leadership to develop bold philanthropic initiatives capable of attracting transformational investment. • Build and maintain a robust pipeline of principal gift prospects, identifying individuals capable of seven- to nine-figure commitments. • Conduct high-level prospect research and strategy development to uncover new principal-level prospects across media, technology, philanthropy, arts, and civic leadership networks. • Develop long-term cultivation strategies designed to move prospects from discovery to transformational commitment. • Collaborate with major gifts, foundation relations, and digital philanthropy teams to identify donors who may evolve into principal gift prospects. • Manage a portfolio of 40-50 principal gift prospects and donors. • Design and execute customized cultivation and solicitation strategies that involve senior leadership, board members, and editorial leaders when appropriate. • Personally solicit and close principal gifts in partnership with the Senior Vice President and CEO. • Serve as a trusted partner to NPR’s development leadership, helping translate the organization’s strategic vision into compelling philanthropic opportunities. • Work closely with newsroom, programming, and music leaders to develop projects that inspire major philanthropic investment. • Coordinate with development colleagues to ensure consistent donor strategy and stewardship. • Ensure exceptional stewardship of principal donors through high-touch engagement, impact reporting, and meaningful involvement in NPR’s work. • Develop long-term engagement strategies that position donors as sustained partners in NPR’s mission.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 10–12 years of fundraising experience, including significant experience securing major and principal gifts. • Demonstrated success soliciting and closing gifts of $1M+, with experience pursuing gifts of $5M+ strongly preferred. • Proven ability to cultivate relationships with ultra-high-net-worth individuals and philanthropic leaders. • Strategic thinker with the ability to translate organizational priorities into compelling philanthropic opportunities. • Strong collaboration skills and comfort working with senior executives and board members. • Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities. • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

🏖️ Benefits

• access to health and wellness • paid time off • financial well-being • medical • dental • vision • life/ accidental death and dismemberment • long-term disability • short-term disability • voluntary retirement savings