Individual Giving Officer - Dorchester, MA - College Bound Dorchester

College Bound Dorchester is looking for highly motivated, resourceful and talented individuals to join our growing team. College Bound is a Boston-based nonprofit leader in gang-intervention, equipping gang-involved young people (Core Influencers) with the attitude, skills experience to graduate from college and become positive leaders in their community. College Bound is a $5M organization poised to be a national model to use education to redirect the entrepreneurial, networking and leadership skills of gang-members from violence (and recidivism) to drive positive change that shifts social norms in our neighborhoods – empowering Core Influencers to become the solution to the chronic cycles of violence and poverty they have helped drive.

 

The Opportunity

 

The Individual Giving Officer is a critical role within Bound’s Resource Development team. Responsibilities include but are not limited to utilizing your relationship management experience and fundraising skills to develop and implement a robust individual donor prospecting and cultivation plan, represent College Bound to high net-worth individuals, and work with major giving donors and prospects to raise outright gifts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify, cultivate, solicit, steward and retain major gift prospects and donors
• Develop, plan and execute customized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies for each donor in the assigned portfolio, incorporating planned and complex gift opportunities when possible
• Actively pursue prospects, make qualification visits to identify and engage new individuals capable of making a major outright gift to College Bound
• Manage a portfolio of 50-100 donors and prospects capable of making a $10k+ outright gift to College Bound
• Schedule, script, and lead 50+ donor meetings annually and other individualized contacts with prospects
• Guide and direct staff and board/advisory board members in cultivation and solicitation activity
• Develop and maintain familiarity with College Bound programs and priorities and develop persuasive proposals and reports to individual donors and family foundations
• Support fundraising event planning and committee staffing
• Take on additional development projects as needed

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• 3+ years of major or leadership gifts experience or comparable non-profit development experience
• Must be a quick learner with demonstrated managing and prioritizing development tasks, including writing compelling proposals, developing donor relationships and making solicitations
• A proven ability to develop and implement a prospecting plan to identify and qualify new donors is required
• Must demonstrate superior interpersonal skills, along with the ability to manage relationships and multiple tasks with ease. The right candidate will be energetic, intellectually curious and a good listener
• Ability to strategize with management to improve methods and processes
• worker with the ability to structure a large and multifaceted workload and navigate within varying degrees of ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
• Strong computer skills, including facility with Microsoft Office suite and constituent databases, are necessary (experience with Raiser’s Edge a plus and Moves Management process is preferred)

College Bound Dorchester is an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental and vision plans, childcare discounts, generous paid time off and tuition scholarship opportunities. Successful candidates are mission-driven, entrepreneurial and solutions-oriented with a desire to work in an organization undergoing strategic change and growth.

If you have reviewed our website or LinkedIn page and this position sounds like the right fit for you, please submit your interest by email to Alana Hill at ahill@collegebounddorchester.org with a resume and thoughtful cover letter.