Major Gifts Officer

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🗽 New York, Massachusetts – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $98k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

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Keshet

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

11 - 50 employees

Founded 1996

🤲 Charity

🌍 Social Impact

🤝 Non-profit

Charity • Social Impact • Non-profit

Keshet is an organization dedicated to achieving full equality for LGBTQ+ Jews and their families within Jewish life. Through various initiatives, resources, and events, Keshet empowers queer youth and advocates for LGBTQ+ rights in Jewish communities. Their work includes supporting LGBTQ+ youth programs, organizing community events, and providing training and advocacy to foster safe and inclusive environments for all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

📋 Description

• Manage a robust portfolio of prospective and lapsed major donors • Develop and execute individualized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies • Encourage existing donors to make larger and/or longer-term gifts aligned with Keshet’s priorities and donors’ philanthropic goals • Identify, qualify, and engage new major donor prospects through research, referrals, events, and community relationships • Build donor relationships through regular meetings, personalized outreach, and thoughtful stewardship • Partner with executive leadership and board members to develop and expand donor relationships • Advise executive leadership and board members on donor engagement and solicitation • Develop a comprehensive plan to upgrade current donors and identify and solicit new donors to meet budgeted goals • Prepare content for solicitation, cultivation, and development events, correspondence, fundraising plans, reports, and tailored proposals • Maintain accurate donor records in Salesforce CRM and use reporting and analytics to inform strategy and measure outcomes • Plan and execute donor engagement events and prospecting/stewardship visits • Partner across Keshet to strengthen organization-wide major donor engagement and foster a culture of philanthropy • Develop fluency in Keshet’s programs and impact and connect donors with funding opportunities and stories • Engage program staff to enhance donor meetings and cultivation events • Collaborate on persuasive written fundraising communications • Travel around the U.S. 1–2 trips per month for donor meetings and events, plus 3–4 trips per year for larger events and staff retreats • Report to and collaborate closely with the CEO

🎯 Requirements

• Passionate commitment to Keshet’s vision and mission of advancing LGBTQ+ equality in Jewish life • Extensive knowledge of LGBTQ+ identities and experiences • Ability to articulate intersections among diverse Jewish and LGBTQ+ identities • Significant knowledge of Jewish tradition, identity, and experience preferred • Ease working across a wide range of Jewish communities • Ability to skillfully navigate the Jewish communal landscape • Commitment to racial justice and gender equity lenses in programs, fundraising, and staff culture • Track record of developing and maintaining trusting relationships with diverse stakeholders • Outstanding, persuasive verbal and written communication skills • Excellent analytical, planning, and project management skills • Demonstrated success cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major donors and achieving fundraising goals • Demonstrated understanding of nonprofit fundraising, governance, management, and volunteer engagement models • Prior experience with a constituent data management or similar record-keeping system required • Salesforce familiarity a plus • Ability to motivate, monitor, measure, and improve performance and morale of others • Comfort with ambiguity in a fast-paced organization and flexibility to meet changing demands • Ability to work with colleagues across multiple geographic locations using technology • 5+ years of development experience managing major donor relationships

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employment regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, veteran status, disability, citizenship status, or any other proscribed category set forth in federal or state regulations