Upstream USA
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Director of Annual and Major Giving – Reproductive Healthcare
Location
United States
Posted
93 days ago
Salary
$145K - $155K / year
8 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Lead and implement Upstream’s annual and multi-year strategies to achieve major donor and annual giving revenue goals for individual and institutional donors giving up to $1 million.
• Monitor performance against revenue targets and adjust strategy based on results and emerging opportunities.
• Co-develop annual goals, KPIs, and reporting frameworks in partnership with leadership.
• Produce regular reports tracking progress toward goals, KPIs, and donor engagement metrics.
• Secure between $1-1.5million in unrestricted revenue from major and annual donors in 2026.
• Manage and prioritize a portfolio of up to 75 of Upstream’s highest potential major gift prospects and donors.
• Develop and implement tailored strategies for managing a portfolio of major donors, ensuring proactive, personalized engagement through in-person, phone, and virtual touchpoints.
• Strategically and opportunistically cultivate new major donors to expand and strengthen the portfolio.
• Lead preparation for donor meetings, including scheduling, researching profiles, as well as drafting briefing materials, talking points, slides, deliverables and follow-up correspondence.
• Design, write, and project manage tailored donor engagement and communication strategies that leverage investor relations and marketing assets, ensuring the delivery of personalized proposals, reports, acknowledgements, and correspondence that deepen donor relationships.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and completeness of donor data and activity records in Salesforce.
• Lead the strategy and execution of the annual giving program, ensuring regular, meaningful touchpoints that engage and retain annual donors.
• Leverage existing donor collateral, marketing assets, and automation tools to create scalable yet personalized appeals and reports, including an annual report.
• Maintain an opportunistic approach to outreach, capitalizing on earned media or other brand awareness surges to connect new audiences to the organization’s mission.
• Collaborate closely with senior leadership, Program, Digital Health, and Marketing & Communications teams, to engage senior leadership as appropriate, represent donor segments, and to align donor messaging and timing with organizational priorities and impact stories.
• Partner with the Systems and Operations team to optimize processes and tools and ensure accurate gift tracking, tax acknowledgements, and reporting.
• Partner with the Transformational Giving Team to elevate prospects whose networks or influence lend themselves to the transformational strategy.
• Additional duties as assigned.
Job Requirements
- 8-10+ years relationship management experience (development, fundraising, advancement, philanthropy, for-profit investor relations, or similar) with increasing levels of responsibility
- Demonstrated history of securing and stewarding six-figure philanthropic commitments
- Proactive, self-starter that is eager to create, own, and execute a major gifts development strategy
- Experience working at a nonprofit with an annual budget greater than $5 million
- Exceptional writing ability and capable of distilling complex content for sophisticated audiences into a variety of formats (talking points, presentation decks, grant reports/proposals, correspondence, etc.)
- Skilled communicator and listener
- Adept at building relationships and influencing others; high "EQ"
- Exceptional project management ability with strengths in managing multiple competing priorities
- Demonstrated ability to operate with a high degree of urgency, self-motivation, focus on goals, and commitment to high-quality work
- Previous experience conducting prospect research and familiarity with research tools and platforms
- Understanding of relationship management processes, pipelines, and tracking mechanisms within a CRM environment in service of managing major donor pipeline, comfort in an internally facing role, working behind-the-scenes to advance relationships, as well as in the room with donors and prospects
- Background in managing annual fund campaigns using Salesforce and HubSpot.
- Keen attention to detail and able to exercise discretion
- Team player and strong individual contributor
- Strong command of Google suite tools
- Demonstrates the ability to remain focused, adaptable, and solution-oriented in the face of challenges, setbacks, or ambiguity. Approaches obstacles with a growth mindset and maintains a steady commitment to goals, even under pressure or changing circumstances; resilient.
- While we are a remotely based organization, we maintain an on-camera culture during meetings to support connection, engagement, teaming and collaboration. Must be comfortable and able to participate in this environment
Benefits
- medical, dental, vision, life insurance
- long and short term disability
- 401K with a match
- generous vacation
- personal, sick and holiday time off
- parental leave
- professional development
- a fitness and cell phone allowance for all full time employees and part time employees who work a minimum of 24 hours per week
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