Senior Gift Officer

Senior Gift Officer

As a Senior Gift Officer, you will qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors and donor prospects capable of making commitments in the assigned region for all ministries and programs of Buckner International. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others!

What You'll Do

• Manage a donor development portfolio of individuals, churches, foundations, and other organizations, both donor and donor prospects.
• Develop and implement an annual development plan for donors and donor prospects assigned to the Gift Officer portfolio to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward.
• Support the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of donors for capital fund drives and other organizational campaigns as assigned.
• Fully utilize tools and resources of Buckner to establish cultivation strategies and conduct calls and visits with individuals, foundations, churches and corporations, with Buckner staff or individually, to promote Buckner and its program needs.
• Make qualification calls and visits to individuals, corporations, churches, foundations and other organizations for the purpose of identifying and then cultivating relationships that could lead to donations to Buckner ministries.
• Prepare written proposals to support direct solicitations.
• Support Buckner events and activities in assigned geographical areas and travel to visit donors and prospects as necessary.
• Utilize, as appropriate, program staff and Executive Directors in the identification, cultivation and solicitation of prospects / donors.
• Utilize Buckner International Board Members and Buckner Development Council Members and other volunteers in the cultivation and solicitation of donors and donor prospects.
• Championing a greater understanding and awareness of Buckner's mission and ministry among donors / prospects by intentionally managing relationships internally and externally.

What You'll Bring to the Team

About Buckner International : Since 1879, Buckner has been transforming lives through hands-on ministry, serving the most vulnerable from the beginning to the end of life. Buckner is one of the oldest and most unique faith-based social service organizations of its kind, serving hundreds of thousands of people each year in the United States and around the world. Learn more about our programs and ministry at buckner.org. Buckner is an Equal Opportunity Employer.