Senior Major Gift Officer

Senior Major Gift Officer

The Senior Major Gift Officer is a critical part of the Wikimedia Foundation's fundraising team, focused on raising major gifts and planned gifts for the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment.

The Senior Major Gift Officer will report to and work closely with the Senior Manager of Major Gifts & Planned Giving to develop and execute major giving fundraising strategies. They manage a dynamic portfolio of major gift prospects, serving as one of our front-line major gifts fundraisers. Succeeding in this environment requires comfort with both highly personalized cultivation strategies for individual donors in their portfolio as well as email outreach to a broad array of donors at scale.

The Senior Major Gift Officer will work remotely. The ideal candidate will be located with convenient travel into US East Coast or West Coast major metros and travel frequently.

You are responsible for :

• Serving as a front-line fundraiser on a team charged with securing annually increasing revenue targets through major gifts
• Cultivating and stewarding a portfolio of 75-100 prospects who have the capacity to give between $1k-$25k annually, along with qualifying and disqualifying major donors from a large giving pool, with frequent reevaluation of the portfolio based on qualification meetings
• Soliciting and securing major and planned gifts in support of the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment, and building a pipeline for further giving and cultivation across our major gifts team
• Fostering strong, life-long donor relationships, including those assigned based on geographic location or other factors
• Developing intimate, high-end donor cultivation events, including building invitation lists, assisting with program content, and executing post-event cultivation strategies, in conjunction with the Events Manager
• Creating written materials to support fundraising, including meeting / event briefings, activity reports, solicitation letters, proposals, and stewardship reports
• Managing a variety of major donor communications, including project management, writing, and editing of these pieces, in collaboration with other staff across the Foundation
• Participating in donor identification, research, and qualification efforts
• Assisting with gift processing, acknowledgements, donor recognition, and other gift administration tasks as needed
• Tracking your contact with donors in our donor database

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About the Wikimedia Foundation :

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive donations from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.