Strategic Philanthropy Manager

Company Description:

Project FIND’s mission is to provide low- and moderate-income and homeless seniors with the services and support they need to enrich their lives and live independently. Today Project FIND operates four supportive housing residences that are home to more than 700 people and four senior centers with over 3,000 members. Our members and residents range from the healthy and active to the frail and homebound to the homeless. For all these individuals, Project FIND is a critical resource, providing housing, meals, and programs that help individuals navigate the challenges of aging by encouraging community engagement and healthy living.

Project FIND’s Older Adult Centers are dedicated sites that provide a variety of meals, activities, and services to people over the age of 60. Please visit our website at: www.projectfind.org.

Job Summary

Reporting to the Director of Development and External Relations (DoDER), the Strategic Philanthropy Manager will play an important supportive role in managing and growing the organization’s fundraising resources. The role will focus on building and maintaining individual, corporate and foundation organizational support, with an emphasis on growing the agency’s unrestricted funding base. The Strategic Philanthropy Manager will assist in the creation and development of a variety of individual giving societies to bolster the agency’s discretionary resources. While the emphasis of the role will be responsible for assisting in the stewardship and growth of individual and corporate giving, the Strategic Philanthropy Manager will also help with the creation and completion of corporate foundation and other foundation funding applications. 

General Responsibilities:

The Strategic Philanthropy Manager’s responsibilities will include: 

Identify Donors:

• Assist the DoDER in conducting donor cultivation meetings and agency tours for supporters and volunteers. Provide recommendations to the DoDER on new elements/aspects to include in donor meetings. 

• Participate, along with the Development team, in placing calls to donors thanking them for their contributions. Assist in the development of script content for the calls. 

• Provide suggestions and recommendations to recruit new donors including individuals and corporations. Additionally, the Strategic Philanthropy Manager will take steps to encourage volunteers to become donors. 


• Develop goals to increase corporate contributions for the benefit, sponsorships and campaigns. 


• Perform gift processing in the constituent database including: entering donation amounts, creating new donor records, entering donor addresses, updating donor records, adding notes and coding gifts.

Research:

• Conduct prospect research on corporate foundation funding opportunities. Provide periodic assistance with authoring aspects of corporate foundation and other foundation funding application and reports. 


• Research prospective individual donors.

Build Relationships:

• Assist with the establishment of Project FIND giving societies recognizing donors for their contributions. Create materials to recruit new and current donors to become society members. 

• Assist with the promotion of the current Project FIND Planned Giving Legacy Leaders society and corporate matching programs. 


• Serve as a contributing member of Project FIND’s development team: participate in team meetings and supervision sessions and collaborate as an essential member of working groups dedicated to special projects and events. 

Special Events:

• Collaborate with the DoDER and the Brand Manager on the planning and on-site coordination of special events, including benefits, open houses, tours and activities involving Project FIND participants, volunteers, board members, donors, funders and community leaders.

Manage Relationships:

• Assist with drafting and sending donor acknowledgments in a timely fashion. 

• Help with the execution of direct mail solicitations, including the year-end appeal and appeals for special campaigns and events. 

• Assist on occasion with the maintenance and updating of event and direct mail mailing lists. Assist with ensuring contact lists are maintained for data merging of letters and envelopes. 

• Assist with the creation of and reporting of department fundraising metrics.  

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree Required. 

• Minimum of three years of nonprofit development experience. 

• Excellent computer skills: MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint). 

• Ability to interface professionally with all levels of staff and donors. 

• Skilled with meeting goals, plans and deliverables on time. 

• Familiarity with NYC’s corporate and foundation funding landscape a plus. 

• Proficient writing skills required. 

Schedule:

Monday - Friday 9:00AM - 5:00PM, with flexibility to occasionally work some weekends and holidays (i.e., Christmas)

Project FIND participates in E-Verify, which confirms employment authorization through an electronic database maintained by the Social Security Administration and Department of Homeland Security. The E-Verify process is completed in conjunction with the Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification.  E-Verify is not used as a tool to pre-screen candidates.