Associate Director - U.S. Philanthropy

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The Good Food Institute

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2016

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

🌾 Agriculture

💰 Venture Round on 2018-08

Description

• Managing all aspects of GFI’s U.S. Midwest and Southeast major gift portfolios. • Identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding new and existing donors. • Connecting and collaborating with donors, prospects, and connectors throughout the region to facilitate major and principal-level gifts. • Securing unrestricted and restricted philanthropic contributions to GFI at the major and principal gift levels. • Demonstrating and modeling healthy portfolio management skills designed to enhance and strengthen the donor pipeline. • Developing and executing creative strategies to expand our major donor base, ensuring that we have a robust prospect pipeline. • Serving as deputy to the Director of U.S. Philanthropy, assisting with strategic oversight to the U.S. Philanthropy team and assistance and backup coverage as needed. • Applying specific focus to the key areas of prospect identification, qualification, portfolio assignment, and early cultivation. • Directly managing the Leadership Giving Officer, including but not limited to training, development, and performance management. • Performing other duties, guided by industry best practices, such as attending and hosting industry-specific events and conferences focused on prospect identification and relationship development. • Crafting and presenting creative funding proposals, identifying new and unique opportunities for fundraising growth, and preparing compelling personalized progress reports in consort with our writing and stewardship colleagues.

Requirements

• A minimum of eight years of previous development experience including five years in a major gifts officer capacity with a minimum of two years of demonstrated experience successfully closing principal-level ($1M+) gifts. • A proven track record of creatively cultivating relationships with individuals, donor advisors, and families with major gift ($100,000+) potential, successful solicitation, and closing major gifts. • Demonstrated ability to successfully identify, cultivate, and solicit both cold and warm prospects while building the foundations for longstanding relationships between donor and organization. • Experience working independently as well as managing and/or mentoring fellow Development team members. • Experience with a CRM database (GFI uses Salesforce). • Extensive philanthropic experience within the U.S. Midwest and Southeast during at least the most recent three years, including the development and maintenance of established philanthropic relationships in the area. • A willingness and ability to travel regularly throughout the U.S. Midwest and Southeast and occasionally major metropolitan areas in Canada, with frequent evening and weekend work (flexible scheduling available to accommodate for off-hours responsibilities). • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to work effectively under the pressure of deadlines. • A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong. • Comfort working remotely and in a rapidly growing and evolving organization. • Strong support for GFI’s philosophy and mission; demonstrated interest in plant-based & other alt proteins, public health, environmentalism, climate change, animal protection, or hunger relief. • A commitment to GFI’s values: believe change is possible, do the most good we can, share knowledge freely, act on evidence, and invite everyone to the table.

Benefits

• Working from home • Full medical coverage • Optional dental and vision packages • 401(k) plan with employer match • Flexible holiday and vacation plans • Lifestyle spending account • Opportunity for advancement • Respectful managers • Supportive colleagues