MISSION INVESTMENT OFFICER

About the role

The Mission Investment Officer develops, grows, and sustains giving relationships for YFC’s National Service Center, focusing on portfolio stewardship, donor qualification, and encouraging donors to increase their generosity.

Responsibilities

• Helps grow and sustain the NSC’s giving partner base, operating funds, and campaign funding priorities.
• Manages a portfolio of giving partners and prospects, including mid-level donors and major donor prospects.
• Leads assigned donors and prospects through the donor life cycle, including identification, research, qualification, cultivation, invitation, stewardship, renewal, and upgrade.
• Develops and executes personalized donor strategies that deepen relationship, strengthen connection to YFC’s mission, help determine the appropriate donor pathway, and invite increased generosity.
• Maintains accurate and timely records of all development activity in Salesforce, including donor interactions, research, insights, next steps, stewardship activity, pledges, gift designations, and donor pathway recommendations.
• Collaborates with Marketing, Gift Processing, Finance, NSC staff, and other departments to strengthen donor experience, clarify donor intent, support campaign execution, and maximize giving.
• Speaks knowledgeably about Youth For Christ and serves as an ambassador for the mission in donor, ministry, and community settings.
• Supports national development events, capital campaigns, special funding initiatives, and other donor engagement opportunities as assigned.
• Speaks knowledgeably about Youth For Christ and serves as an ambassador for the mission in donor, ministry, and community settings.

Requirements

• A proven track record in fundraising, donor relations, sales, ministry partnership, or related relationship-based work.
• Demonstrated ability to manage, steward, and grow a portfolio of giving partners and prospects.
• Experience with donor identification, research, qualification, cultivation, invitation, stewardship, renewal, and upgrade strategies.
• Expertise in Kingdom fundraising philosophies and principles.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to personalize donor outreach, stewardship, and follow-up.
• Ability to make decisions and exercise good judgment in a changing environment, with the ability to anticipate future needs.
• Strong customer service orientation, earning the trust of giving partners and team members alike.
• Relational but goal-oriented person, driven by the need to resource a critically important mission of reaching kids while respecting the stewardship priorities of all giving partners.
• Ministerial — able to minister to giving partners’ personal needs and help disciple their walk with Christ, especially as it relates to generosity in God’s Kingdom.
• Comfortable using CRM systems, donor reports, dashboards, and move-management tools to guide daily work.
• Ability to maintain accurate donor records, track next steps, and report progress toward goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Certifications in Kingdom-oriented fund development a plus.
• 3-5 years’ experience in fund development, sales, donor and customer relations, ministry partnership, advancement, or other related relationship-based fields.
• Experience in a nonprofit, ministry, faith-based, or complex organizational environment preferred.
• Experience with Salesforce or another CRM preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge of Kingdom fundraising philosophies and principles.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to make decisions and exercise good judgment in a changing environment.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Relational but goal-oriented personality.
• Comfortable using CRM systems and donor management tools.

Benefits

• Vacation time
• Sick time
• 12 paid holidays
• Health & Welfare Benefits (Voluntary Enrollment)
• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Supplemental Accident Health And Welfare Benefits (Company Sponsored)
• YFC Contribution to Health Savings Account (HSA)
• 403(b) match

Pay

TBD

Schedule

TBD