Major Gifts Associate.
Offer summary
Qualifications:
1-3 years of professional experience in office administration, operations, or fundraising., Strong communication skills for effective donor engagement and storytelling., Experience with systems management and administrative support., Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects in a fast-paced environment..Key responsabilities:
- Coordinate logistics for donor engagement activities and special events.
- Prepare donor briefings and assist with proposal development.
- Maintain accurate donor records and generate reports from management systems.
- Support cross-departmental collaborations to ensure timely donor deliverables.
Job description
Role: Major Gifts Associate.
Reports to: Deputy Director, Major Gifts.
Location: The candidate can be based anywhere in the USA East Coast; preference is for Washington DC or NYC. We will consider other locations, especially if a large fundraising market, for exceptional candidates.
Are you passionate about making a real difference in global health? Do you thrive on building meaningful relationships and inspiring others to support life-changing causes? Living Goods is seeking an entrepreneurial and passionate professional to join our growing Major Gifts team and help revolutionize community health in Africa.
About Living Goods
We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality health care door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. In 2023, we supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
The Opportunity:
The Major Gifts Associate serves as the operational backbone for the Individual Giving team, centralizing stewardship and donor engagement activities while providing targeted support on proposals and reports. This role orchestrates comprehensive donor relationship management through coordinated communications, events, and reporting processes. As the team's operational support, the Associate manages critical systems, ensures data integrity, coordinates team logistics, and streamlines cross-departmental workflows to enhance fundraising effectiveness. By standardizing stewardship practices and maintaining consistent donor touchpoints, this position enables relationship managers to focus on strategic donor cultivation while ensuring all supporters receive timely, appropriate engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
Engagement & Stewardship Support (50%):
The salary band for this role is $45,000 to $57,000, commiserate with experience.
Living Goods is an equal-opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.
Reports to: Deputy Director, Major Gifts.
Location: The candidate can be based anywhere in the USA East Coast; preference is for Washington DC or NYC. We will consider other locations, especially if a large fundraising market, for exceptional candidates.
Are you passionate about making a real difference in global health? Do you thrive on building meaningful relationships and inspiring others to support life-changing causes? Living Goods is seeking an entrepreneurial and passionate professional to join our growing Major Gifts team and help revolutionize community health in Africa.
About Living Goods
We’re on a mission to ensure no woman or child dies from easily preventable diseases. To bring high-quality health care door to door, we’ve partnered with African governments to ensure that community health workers (CHWs) have the tools, support, and knowledge they need to save lives. We focus on ensuring CHWs are treated as essential health workers who should be digitized, equipped, supervised, and compensated—so they can make the greatest impact—and harness community-level data to transform health systems. In 2023, we supported over 12,000 CHWs, impacting more than 6 million people across Kenya, Uganda, and Burkina Faso.
The Opportunity:
The Major Gifts Associate serves as the operational backbone for the Individual Giving team, centralizing stewardship and donor engagement activities while providing targeted support on proposals and reports. This role orchestrates comprehensive donor relationship management through coordinated communications, events, and reporting processes. As the team's operational support, the Associate manages critical systems, ensures data integrity, coordinates team logistics, and streamlines cross-departmental workflows to enhance fundraising effectiveness. By standardizing stewardship practices and maintaining consistent donor touchpoints, this position enables relationship managers to focus on strategic donor cultivation while ensuring all supporters receive timely, appropriate engagement.
Key Responsibilities:
Engagement & Stewardship Support (50%):
- Coordinate logistics for Investor Calls (invitations, materials, platform).
- Distribute quarterly stakeholder reports to general audiences.
- Process and track donations, ensuring accurate recording and acknowledgment.
- Streamlines thank you letter processes for all donation levels.
- Coordinate ad hoc special events and donor engagement activities as needed.
- Coordinate cross-team collaborations and initiatives.
- Prepare donor briefings, meeting materials, and follow-up correspondence as needed.
- Assist with proposal and report development, including research, formatting, and submission.
- Support donor engagement activities, including scheduling and materials preparation.
- Liaise with other teams, including Programs, Finance, and Compliance, to ensure accurate and timely donor deliverables.
- Be an excellent editor with an eye for detail to ensure that all of our written materials are polished and ready to present to funders.
- Conduct research and analysis on current donor networks and prospective donors to identify new funding opportunities.
- Help identify strategies to connect with and engage new donors.
- Manage a small portfolio of donors with guidance and oversight from the Deputy Director, Major Gifts.
- Maintain accurate and up-to-date donor and prospect records in CRM and the cash receipts log.
- Generate regular and ad hoc reports from donor management systems.
- Assist with data quality initiatives and database maintenance.
- Support the Business Systems Analyst with system updates and improvements.
- Create and update templates, dashboards, and other system resources.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of team processes.
- A passionate nonprofit professional with 1-3 years of professional experience in office administration, operations, business development/fundraising, or similar work with exposure to systems management and administrative support.
- Comfortable with switching between time-sensitive, day-to-day tasks and long-term projects as priorities require.
- A relationship builder who thrives on providing exceptional donor experiences.
- An excellent communicator who can inspire action through both written and verbal storytelling.
- A collaborative team player who can work across cultures and time zones.
- An agile project manager, accustomed to assessing ROI and pivoting as needed.
- The opportunity to directly impact millions of lives through our fundraising efforts.
- Be part of a dynamic, diverse, and mission-driven global team.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Potential for international travel and firsthand experience with our programs.
- Professional development and growth opportunities in a growing organization.
The salary band for this role is $45,000 to $57,000, commiserate with experience.
Living Goods is an equal-opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.
Required profile
Experience
Spoken language(s):
English
Check out the description to know which languages are mandatory. Other Skills
- Writing
- Research
- Time Management
- Detail Oriented
- Collaboration
- Communication
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