Upstream USA

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Director of Annual and Major Giving – Reproductive Healthcare

DirectorDirectorFull TimeRemoteTeam 51-200Since 2014H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

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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