Major Gifts Officer

ESSENTIAL DUTIES
• Serves as a member of the development team and plays a central role in developing, overseeing, and managing major gift strategies and programs for the c3 and c4 organizations in their designated region. All regional fundraising efforts should fit within the overall PPMM development strategies.
• Serves as a leader for advancing PPMM’s major gifts program to successfully identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major gift ($1,000 to $100,000+) prospects and donors.
• Develops and meets measurable goals for PPMM’s major gift program in alignment with the goals of the development department and the best practices of Moves Management.
• Plans and implements donor activities, meetings, and events with support from the Development Team.
• Represents PPMM with influential public audiences in the region as a senior fundraiser.
• Assures departmental adherence to affiliate policies, procedures and practices.

NON-ESSENTIAL DUTIES
• Works with/supervises volunteers/interns as applicable.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS
Ability to perform the duties described above. A typical means of acquiring those abilities would be:
• BA/BS degree.
• Minimum of five (5) years fundraising experience, including successful programs in individual gifts, major gifts, direct mail and grant writing, or equivalent similar experience.
• Excellent written and public speaking skills.
• Proven ability to recruit, train and manage fund raising volunteers.

REQUIREMENTS
• Knowledge of professional practices and theories of fundraising.
• Ability to prepare budgets, plans and reports.
• Ability to work effectively as a leader and team member
• Excellent decision making, priority setting and organizational skills.
• Ability to work in high stress environment.
• Familiarity with fundraising software.
• High energy, flexibility, demonstrated creativity