Director of Strategic Giving

Key Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of major donors ($25K+), with a strong understanding of complex donor journeys.
• Partner with the Senior Director of Individual Giving and Relationship Managers on donor and prospect strategy.
• Ensure alignment between individual donor strategies, relationship management activity, and organizational priorities.
• Provide thoughtful guidance on next steps, focus, and prioritization within donor portfolios.
• Engage Chief Philanthropy Officer and Chief Executive Officer appropriately to advance donor relationships.
• Develop, analyze, and interpret fundraising data to surface insights and trends across pipelines, portfolios, donors, and campaigns.
• Translate data related to budgets, forecasting, and pipelines into concise, actionable insights that support planning and decision-making.
• Create clear narratives that accompany data for executive audiences.
• Prepare high-quality reports and presentations for the Senior Director of Individual Giving and Chief Philanthropy Officer.
• Support professional growth while ensuring consistent execution against goals, strategies, and standards.
• Create strategies that support department goals to significantly increase donor engagement and mission support through multi-year strategies resulting in multi-year commitments.
• Ask thoughtful, challenging questions that deepen strategic discussion and decision-making.
• Maintain a strong focus on impact, clearly distinguishing between activity and meaningful outcomes.

Core Competencies

• Donor-centered fundraising
• Strategic thinking and synthesis
• Data-informed decision-making
• Team leadership and collaboration
• Executive communication

Qualifications

• Demonstrated major gifts experience (10 years +) within a non-profit organization, educational institution or other environment of similar complexity.
• Demonstrated experience managing major donor portfolios at the $25K+ level.
• Strong background in fundraising data analysis, forecasting, and pipeline management.
• Proven people-management experience with the ability to coach and develop fundraising staff.
• Experience creating executive-level reporting and translating data into strategic insights.
• Strong strategic, analytical, and communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills to relate to donors, volunteers, and colleagues.
• Enthusiastic contributor to the Individual Giving team and the broader Food Depository community.
• Understanding and commitment to embrace equity, diversity and inclusion in fundraising practices.
• Highly organized & detail oriented.
• Adaptable and flexible in fast-paced environment, able to multi-task and handle several priorities simultaneously.
• Demonstrated initiative and willingness to take on new projects.
• Proficiency in MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
• Development database experience.
• Exposure: General office environment; limited exposure to warehouse environment. Interacts with GCFD staff, Board Members, financial donors, volunteers and public. Local travel depending on events; evening and weekend hours are required.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution
• Gym membership
• ThrivePass lifestyle and wellness benefit program
• $250 employee referral bonus