Major Gift Officer

WAMU 88.5 is a public media station owned and operated by American University. The Major Gifts Officer (MGO) position manages a portfolio of approximately 150 assigned and qualified donors, cultivating relationships, soliciting high-level gifts, and promoting inclusion of WAMU in donor's estate plans.

Requirements

• Qualifies a caseload of 150 donors from a larger group of donors to the organization.
• Creates individual goals for each person on the caseload based on donor's history of giving and the knowledge of that donor's potential.
• Executes plans to meet individual and departmental goals, ensuring that donors on the caseload are retained and upgraded, including, but not limited to, face to face visits.
• Promotes planned giving options.
• Manages prospect/donor communication and drafts specific proposals for his/her assigned prospects.
• Works with content and marketing staff to secure appropriate information, including budgets, and create offers, proposals, and asks that will be used with persons on the caseload to secure gifts and report back to donors on how their donations were used.
• Conducts basic prospect research for portfolio.
• Creates monthly reports as required by management that accurately reflects caseload activity and performance.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits package
• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Tuition Reimbursement