Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation in our ambitious project to empower people to create and share the sum of all human knowledge. We are looking for a Senior Manager, Major Gifts & Planned Giving to lead the team who are responsible for our $10,000+ fundraising and planned giving efforts.

Requirements

• Seven plus years of successful fundraising experience, including direct experience and success in raising money from individual major donors and through planned gifts in the 6 to 7-figure range
• Experience creating and implementing successful fundraising strategy, ideally for an endowment and/or planned giving
• Experience leading teams, including mentoring and developing staff with a wide range of experience
• Broad-based knowledge of various development campaign activities including: direct solicitations, planned giving, event planning and management, institutional grantmaking, and leveraging fundraising databases
• Experience building relationships through mission-supporting ventures; a comfort with major donors and a respect for and understanding of their goals and objectives
• Ability to create and maintain strong internal relationships and balance the needs of multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrable track record as an exceptional communicator, in writing as well as verbally; adept at writing solicitation letters, donor correspondence, and other kinds of material for publication
• Ability to maintain confidentiality of donor information and a finely-tuned sense of discretion
• Experience working in an organization with a distributed workforce, using asynchronous and synchronous communication methods, and an ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and accountability

Responsibilities

• Retaining, recruiting and managing a team of fundraising professionals and consultants
• Establishing work plans, performance objectives, and goals for each team member and regularly reviewing performance
• Providing professional development and training required to cultivate staff skills and professionalism
• Achieving annual major gifts ($10K+) and planned giving targets
• Collaborating with other leaders in the fundraising program to develop donor journeys that funnel mid-level prospects into the major donor audience
• Leading the ongoing development of the planned giving program and building a robust pipeline of planned giving commitments
• Partnering with other teams to further develop the events strategy to support increasing individual and planned giving fundraising
• Collaborating with the Endowment Board of Trustees to develop fundraising strategy, lead fundraising implementation and identify potential new board members
• Ensuring the cultivation and stewardship of a diverse portfolio of existing donors and donor prospects

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement benefits
• Paid time off
• Remote work, flexible hours