NORTH AMERICAN MISSION BOARD (NAMB)

Title: Major Gifts Officer

Classification: Exempt

Reports to: CDO and VP of Send Relief

Travel: Travel is a significant part of this role to visit donors and for occasional meetings at the NAMB home office. Travel expenses will be covered.

Location: Remote, NAMB home office is in Alpharetta, GA

Summary: This position supports NAMB and SR’s ministry objectives by cultivating individual donors to increase major gifts and long-term partnerships. Through collaboration with the NAMB and SR development leadership and team, this role will work to achieve fundraising goals and ensure consistent mission and program messaging. The scope of responsibilities includes securing new major gifts from identification to cultivating donor relationships, preparing the solicitation, and developing transformational giving.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Key duties and responsibilities would include:

1. Achieves and maintains a solid working knowledge of NAMB and Send Relief ministries and can effectively articulate each entity both verbally and in writing.

2. Manages the cultivation and development of 75 – 100 current and prospective individual donor relationships to build a pipeline for major gifts.

3. Qualifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards relationships with current and prospective individual donors through excellent planning and strategic development activities via phone, email, mail, and in-person visits.

4. Involves the giver in meaningful and documented gift strategy discussions. This includes both outright gifts and deferred giving options, such as cash gifts, stock, real estate transfers, bequests, and other giving methods.

5. Writes, assembles, and submits funding requests, solicitation letters, acknowledgments, and stewardship reports on a timely basis.

6. Develop growth strategies for new and current individual donors and set annual goals.

7. Actively works to discover new giving prospects through internal and external sources.

8. Stewards and acknowledges gifts in a timely and personally appropriate manner, ensuring that donors understand the significance of their gifts while feeling valued and connected to the ministry.

9. Networks with Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) foundation personnel and pertinent corporate giving peers to introduce NAMB and Send Relief to prospective new major donors.

10. Maintains timely records of all constituent activity in Raiser’s Edge.

11. Participates in internal development team meetings and other organizational meetings as needed.

12. Maintains confidentiality of donors’ information and interactions.

Direct Reports: N/A

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

• Undergraduate degree required.

• Five years or more of successful experience in non-profit fund-raising and cultivation of major gifts preferably in a Southern Baptist Convention-affiliated organization.

• Ability for frequent travel in the U.S. and to the NAMB office in Alpharetta, GA.

Character

• Humble

• Servant Leader

• Relational

• Kingdom-minded

• Mature

• Integrity

• Strong Faith

Competence

• Emotional Intelligence

• Fundraising

• Stellar Written and Verbal Communicator

• Customer Service

• Organized

• Digital Native

• Customer Relations Software Experience

Culture

NAMB’s culture is one of humility, collaboration, valuing team members and supporters, servant leadership, and using strengths and expertise for the good of the mission. Experience with and understanding of the Southern Baptist Convention polity and culture is required. NAMB employees are expected to attend an SBC church of their choice and adhere to the NAMB Code of Conduct.

Benefits Package:

This position may be contract and/or contract to hire. A competitive compensation package will be discussed during a personal interview, commensurate with experience.