Individual Engagement Manager / Major Gifts

The Individual Engagement Manager / Major Gift will primarily serve as an annual giving frontline fundraiser. This role will have direct responsibility for maintaining and managing a personal portfolio of major gift donors with the primary responsibility to identify, steward, and invite annual investment in UWECI at the major gifts level. Additionally, this role will work closely with the VP, Donor Engagement and Development and / or President / CEO to identify donors at the major gift level for stewardship to planned giving, endowment giving, and / or capital giving.

Essential Skills

• Ability to self-sufficiently develop, implement, and manage a portfolio of major gift donors.
• Ability to cultivate one-on-one relationships with new and existing individual donors at the major gifts level.
• Understanding of how to identify and move a donor through the moves-management system to increase giving.
• Ability to identify an individual donor's philanthropic goals to connect the donor to UWECI's community impact.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in individual donor recruitment and stewardship or relationship sales.
• Experience in non-profit communities.

Essential Job Functions

Individual Portfolio Work :

Affinity Group(s) :

Lead monthly steering committee meetings including creation of the agenda and meeting notes.