Development Officer

About the role

Fundraise for Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) by building and strengthening donor relationships and connecting passions and interests to funding opportunities with individual, corporate, and foundation donors in the $7,500+ annual gift category.

Responsibilities

• Meaningfully engage with current and prospective donors
• Foster and strengthen relationships
• Inspire donors to become more invested in feeding kids
• Qualify a caseload of donors by seeking out donor interests, passions, and capacity for being upgraded in giving and involvement
• Analyze donor giving/involvement and potential for increasing
• Create and execute individual plans for each donor tailored to their passions, interests, motivations, giving patterns, and preferences
• Execute each plan with the goal of retaining and upgrading donors
• Engage new donors through networking and pursuing relationships
• Actively seek out new information on FMSC’s operations, initiatives, products, and impact
• Write tailored funding/partnership proposals
• Research each funding opportunity’s requirements
• Write and submit tailored and compelling requests
• Make 50+ high touch weekly contacts through a combination of phone, email, handwritten notes, and face to face meetings
• Solicit engagement, express thanks, and offer prayer
• Maintain accurate donor/prospect information in donor database
• Collaborate on other strategic fundraising initiatives
• Share donor relations successes and best practices with peers

Qualifications

• Commitment to support, promote and authentically communicate FMSC’s Christian mission and goals
• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience in development or high volume sales required
• Experience meeting sales/fundraising goals, increasing client/donor engagement, and making the “ask” and “close” is required
• Experience building strong in-person and phone donor/client relationships is required
• Self-directed with high level of energy, self-motivation, and independence with limited direct supervision
• Able to accept a challenge or project and carry it through to completion with tenacity
• Exceptional storyteller and public speaker
• Excellent organizational skills with a high degree of detail, accuracy, and follow-through
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office required, and experience with donor/sales databases preferred

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) with employer match
• PTO
• FSA
• Dental
• Vision
• And more, with detailed benefit information available at https://www.fmsc.org/about-us/careers/fmsc-benefits

Pay and Schedule

The anticipated starting pay range is $88,700 - $95,000. This is a full-time, exempt (salaried) position with a typical work schedule of M-F during daytime business hours, and occasional nights and weekends may be required. Approximately 25-30% all-expenses-paid domestic/international travel is required.