Major Gift Officer

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🌐 United States, Canada, +3 more countries – Remote

🇺🇸 United States – Remote 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote 🇮🇳 India – Remote 🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote 🇳🇿 New Zealand – Remote

🐻 Alaska, Arizona, +15 more states – Remote

🐻 Alaska – Remote 🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote ⛰️ Colorado – Remote 🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🥔 Idaho – Remote 🦞 Maine – Remote 🦬 Montana – Remote 🌶️ New Mexico – Remote 🗽 New York – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $85k - $100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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NOLS

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1965

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

Education • Non-profit

NOLS is a nonprofit leader in experiential outdoor education that runs immersive wilderness expeditions, semester and gap-year programs, and classroom-based wilderness medicine courses. The organization focuses on teaching wilderness and leadership skills through hands-on mentorship, risk management training, and Leave No Trace conservation principles, serving individuals, groups, and organizations worldwide. NOLS also offers certifications (Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness EMT), custom team trainings, alumni programs, and resources to strengthen outdoor leadership and safety.

📋 Description

• Serve as lead strategist and relationship manager for a portfolio of 110+ major and principal gift donors across the West Coast • Research, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major and principal gift prospects • Develop personalized engagement, solicitation, and donor strategies aligned with donor interests and organizational goals • Meet outreach, personal visit, and revenue metrics established by the Vice President of Advancement • Use email, phone, social media messaging, and personalized mail outreach to secure personal visits and increased annual gifts • Track fundraising progress and maintain regular prospect communications • Design customized donor engagement plans • Produce and deliver stewardship materials with the Donor Relations/Stewardship Coordinator • Coordinate with the Director of Annual Giving on fundraising efforts • Solicit annual fund gifts, especially gifts of $10,000 and above • Steward NOLS Fund donors through personal communication • Maintain professional affiliations and stay current on major gift fundraising, deferred giving, estate planning, and tax-law trends • Build donor relationships through in-person and virtual visits • Learn NOLS programs and projects, donor database, and fundraising processes • Participate in funding proposals, donor collateral, and donor events • Coordinate with finance, expedition, wilderness medicine, staff, trustees, and volunteers to create donor experiences • Represent NOLS and advocate for its mission, programs, and philanthropic opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of progressive experience in a development department as a frontline fundraiser • Proven success building long-term relationships, managing an individual portfolio, and securing major gifts with 5-figure minimums • Foundational understanding of major, principal, and planned giving vehicles within a nonprofit structure • Capital and endowment campaign experience preferred • Ability to represent NOLS to alumni, donors, board, staff, parents, and other constituents • Experience building and maintaining long-term relationships with fundraising constituents • Ability and willingness to work outside normal business hours frequently, including fundraising dinners, community events, conferences, and after-hours or weekend meetings • Expert project management skills, initiative, flexibility, discretion, and thoughtful decision-making • Genuine passion for the outdoors, leadership development, and wilderness medicine programs • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Ability to write customized giving proposals and deliver pitches confidently • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google Suite, and advancement CRM software such as Mission CRM • Ability and willingness to travel approximately 50% of the time within the assigned geographic region in the U.S. • Bachelor's degree • Proven fundraising track record and demonstrated success securing major gifts • Consideration may be given for related experience in customer-facing sales, nonprofit programming, financial and estate planning, or marketing • Criminal background check required • Legal working rights in an eligible employment location

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage • Flexible time off policy • Employee Assistance Program with confidential, 24/7 counseling and support services • Special pricing on NOLS courses for employees and their families • Benefits eligibility for full-time employees