Director of Major Gifts

General Scope

Jewish Home Foundation seeks a dynamic and experienced fund development professional to assist the Executive Director of the Foundation team to plan, lead and grow its major gifts and planned giving efforts.

Essential Functions

• Provide leadership for all major gift and planned giving initiatives.
• Work with Executive Director to position the organization to maximize fund development opportunities.
• Create and execute a comprehensive major gift & planned giving work plan, including budgets and specific goals, objectives and strategies for the department.
• Foster a culture of philanthropy and enhance a donor centered approach to our advancement goals that nurtures loyalty through a comprehensive relationship building program of cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.
• Cultivate, solicit and steward prospective major gift and planned giving prospects and develop a plan to do the same.
• Build relationships with the estate and financial planning professionals.
• Cook up suggestions for planned giving vehicles with prospects and their advisors to meet their estate/financial planning goals and those of the Foundation.
• Maintain a high level of expertise regarding state and federal taxes; gift and estate planning methods and the legal aspect of charitable planned giving.
• Ensure that donor relations and all fundraising activities meet the highest ethical standards.
• Identify and engage new donors.
• Aid with grant writing and identification of prospective funders.
• Conduct prospect research and identify pool of prospective major gift donors and opportunities.
• Provide qualitative and quantitative reporting and analysis of giving to the Foundation team and the Foundation’s Board of Directors.