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Major Gifts Officer

  
Urban Homeworks, Inc. | Minneapolis, MN
Salary Range: $75,000 - $95,000

Job Overview
The Major Gift Officer (MGO) leads major gift initiatives from individual donors through identifying, organizing, and leading a portfolio of major gift fundraising, marketing, and communications activities. Additionally, the MGO plays a leadership role in relationship development efforts and works effectively and collaboratively on a multi-disciplined Marketing and Development team.

Job Responsibilities - Duties include, but are not limited to:
  • (60%) Relationship Management and Solicitation: Play the lead role in donor relations in a collaborative effort with the Executive Director and Sr. Development Officer, through prospecting, identifying, managing, and cultivating a major gifts portfolio through a relationship-first approach. Act as primary relationship manager for individual, private foundation, and private investing prospects to reach or exceed annual funding goals. Maintain and expand current planned giving as well as establish new relationships and opportunities through implementing key development initiatives and activities.
  • (20%) Strategy and Cultivation: Create, integrate, and implement short, intermediate, and long-term individual major gifts strategies. Develop strategic funding requests based on organizational funding goals. Communicate with key stakeholders (internal and external) as appropriate.
  • (10%) Monitoring and Reporting: Monitor weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual activity to achieve major gift revenue goals. Track and report relationship management activity using internal systems and processes. Using external benchmarks, provide data analysis and reporting of the major gifts effectiveness and efficiency.
  • (10%) Organizational and Team Leadership initiatives: Participate in team and organizational leadership operations, supervision of Senior Development Officer, and other supervision as needed.

Qualifications
  • Committed resolve for the Urban Homeworks mission, vision, values and communities in which Urban Homeworks is implementing its community development strategies.
  • Demonstrated success in the field of major gifts cultivation and procurement.
  • Marked competency and experience with fundraising.
  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent), plus at least 3+ years of relevant major gifts experience.
  • Excellent computer software skills including Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point). Strong aptitude with technology is necessary.
  • Experience with Raiser’s Edge and Donor Search a plus.
  • Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to build relationships and tailor messages in a compelling way to a broad range of people with varying backgrounds.
  • Strong orientation toward people; the ability to develop enterprise-wide solutions, understanding their interconnectedness, and achieving win-win results.
  • A vehicle and the ability to meet with donors in person periodically.
  • Strong drive and ability to meet deadlines and complete work in a timely and accurate manner.

Salary and Benefits
Competitive Salary $75k – $85k annually
Vacation, Sick Leave, and Holiday Pay
Health Benefit Options, Disability Insurance, Life Insurance and AD&D Insurance

About Urban Homeworks
Mission: Perpetuate the hope of Jesus Christ through innovative community development.

Vision: Neighbors raising their collective voice to address injustice and overcome the barriers that perpetuate inequity.

Core Values:
  • G.R.I.T (guts, resilience, initiative, and tenacity)
  • Believe
  • Show Up Positive
  • Step Up
  • Neighbor

Urban Homeworks is a 25-year-old, faith-based organization. Guided by our mission and larger vision, we conduct the work of bringing dignity to affordable housing, and rebuilding community through our core values.

Our work, and the mindset by which we do it, is modeled after the example of brazen, unapologetic, social justice left by Jesus. We seek to perpetuate the hope of Jesus in solidarity with self-determined and self-defined people and communities, leveraging housing equity as our platform for change.

We invite people of all genders, orientations, abilities, cultural and class identities, spiritual and religious beliefs to join us in this fight. Black, Indigenous, and other POC are highly encouraged to get involved.
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