Director of Individual Gifts

Job Description

Job Description

DEPARTMENT / PROJECT OVERVIEW

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego (BGCGSD or Clubs) CHANGES LIVES through quality programs and guidance in a safe, affordable and fun environment. BGCGSD’s mission is to inspire and enable youth to achieve academic success, build good character and responsible citizenship and make healthy lifestyle choices. We have been providing a safe, fun and positive environment at our sites with trained and dedicated professional. Members are involved in age-appropriate activities based upon our three priority outcomes of Academic Success, Character Development and Healthy Lifestyles.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Reporting to the VP of Development and working closely with the Director of Major Gifts this multi-faceted role will help the BGCGSD in generating significant revenue. The Director of Individual Gifts is responsible for overseeing and executing all direct mail campaigns, reoccurring donor program, and our peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, Little Jumps Big Changes. The Director of Individual Gifts will create fundraising strategies to steward and cultivate current donors and develop a pipeline of new donors that have the capacity to give. Directly solicits gifts. Additionally, this individual will be responsible for gift entry and database management.

Special Conditions of Employment :

• Successful completion of pre-employment background check
• Maintains compliance with the organization's drug-free workplace policy
• Valid Driver’s license and verification of insurance.
• Must have reliable transportation to travel and transport materials, using a cart or other means, to off-site meetings and events.
• Must be able to work evenings and / or weekends that coincide with events and meetings; and multiple work sites.
• CPR & First Aid Certification

Employees Directly Supervised :

Volunteers for special events.

FUNCTIONS WITH CORRESPONDING TASKS

Function Name / Tasks

1. INDIVIDUAL GIVING, DIRECT MAIL CAMPAIGNS, AND PEER-TO-PEER FUNDRAISING

a. Coordinate the development of solicitation strategy for key prospects and advance the internal planning needed to support those efforts, ensuring that each donor and prospect has a clear strategy and timeline for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.

b. Manage and implement BGCGSD annual peer-to-peer fundraising campaign, Little Jumps Big Changes, ensuring annual goals are met This individual will be responsible for compiling donor information, creating compelling content to help secure donations, solidifying sponsorships, putting together proposals for donors, arranging revenue generating meetings, sending weekly correspondence to internal staff showcasing progress towards campaign goals, sending out campaign summaries, and thanking donors. This staff member is responsible for working with Branch Staff to ensure that they meet their individual fundraising goals. This includes training branch staff to execute a successful peer-to-peer fundraising campaign or support Branch staff to solicit gifts from the community. Additionally, this staff person will be responsible for soliciting gifts from Board Members, alumni and donors as well as setting up his / her own personal fundraising page to solicit donations.

c. Accountable for developing the summer mail and year end appeal campaigns. This includes : compiling donor solicitation information, campaign content creation, putting together proposals for donors, arranging meetings, sending correspondence, tracking progress towards goals, sending out campaign summaries, and thanking donors.

d. Responsible for securing and managing recurring donors and the inner circle program with the intent of growing the number of donors in the inner circle program.

e. Prepare background reports on donor giving and interest, proposing strategies for cultivation of the gift and develop proposals for donor consideration.

f. Ensure tracking and reporting processes are in place to effectively monitor periodic (i.e. monthly / quarterly) progress against goals and to identify corrective actions to address variances in performance against goals.

g. Serves as a member of the Development team and works with other development staff to develop a cohesive, coherent fund-raising program for the BGCGSD, leading by example.

h. Manage a personal portfolio of 25-30 active individuals and manage communications with portfolio through face-to-face cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship meetings

i. Researches, identifies, qualifies, cultivates, solicits, recognizes and stewards individual prospects and donors.

j. Prepares background reports on donor giving and interest, proposing strategies for cultivation of the gift and develop proposals for donor consideration.

k. Directly solicit individuals for gifts of up to $10,000 and work with Director of Major Gifts to solicit gifts of $10,000 or more

l. Support the fundraising efforts of high-level volunteers, including the Board of Directors and leadership staff in securing new and renewed gifts.

m. Write and track all communications, including proposals for significant individual solicitations and contact reports following all meetings with donors and prospects.

n. Evaluate giving trends of individual donors and determine those with potential for upgrading to major gift status.

2. DATABASE MANAGEMENT & REPORT GENERATION

3. CULTIVATION AND STEWARDSHIP

4. SAFETY & WELLNESS

BENEFITS WE OFFER

The information presented is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

DISCRIMINATION STATEMENT

The BGCGSD prohibits discrimination against current staff or applicants on the basis of sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), race, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, ancestry, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. BGCGSD is an equal opportunity employer.