Individual Giving Officer
We currently have an opportunity for an Individual Giving Officer. This role will be performed remotely, with preference for candidates located in the Boston or New York metro area. Those applicants interested in this position must be willing and able to travel up to 30% of the time in the U.S. and North America. A passport is required for travel in North America.
If you are interested in contributing your talents and experience to the work of The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation, please submit your cover letter and resume to development@hertzfoundation.org. Priority consideration will be given to applications submitted on or before Friday, May 3, 2024.
We look forward to hearing from you!
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES are performed in adherence to the Hertz Foundation standards, policies, and procedures, and to local, State and Federal laws and regulations. Reasonable accommodation may be made, if requested, to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
Position Summary
The Fannie and John Hertz Foundation seeks a detail-oriented and strategic Individual Giving Officer to help manage a portfolio of the Hertz Foundation’s leadership annual gift donors, in support of the Hertz Foundation’s first comprehensive campaign. This unique role is a new and exciting addition to the Foundation’s development team.
Reporting to the Chief Development Officer (CDO), the Individual Giving Officer (IGO) will play a key role on the Foundation’s development team. Working closely with all Foundation staff, the IGO will assume the crucial responsibility of identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding potential donors with the capacity to contribute $25,000 or more to the Hertz Foundation. Throughout the qualification process, the IGO will be guided and supervised by the CDO, working together to construct a targeted annual and major gift portfolio. The incumbent will be tasked with formulating effective fundraising strategies, managing a specialized portfolio focused on key markets, and creating personalized solicitation plans that secure both annual and major gifts aligned with the Foundation’s fundraising priorities.
As part of managing a maturing portfolio, the IGO will also take an active role in soliciting leadership-level annual gifts starting from $1,000 and above. To achieve these objectives, the IGO will collaborate seamlessly with the Development team and other Foundation staff, community representatives, board and council members, and other Hertz Foundation volunteers.
Primary Responsibilities and Duties
Frontline Fundraising - 65%
- Maintain a blended portfolio of leadership annual and major gift prospects for purposes of qualifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding both prospects and donors
- Arrange in-person and Zoom meetings for prospects and donors, depending on geographic location within key markets
- Help Development team achieve both annual and long-term fundraising goals, established in consultation with the CDO, including cash and commitments, donor acquisition and retention, and capital campaign success metrics
Prospect Management - 20%
- Manage a portfolio of 100-120 prospects and donors (including those for electronic engagement only) using Raiser’s Edge NXT systems for moves management
- Maintain Raiser’s Edge NXT records with an emphasis on updated actions and opportunities in accordance with Hertz Foundation policies and procedures
- Leverage digital tools like ThankView and Zoom to engage prospects
Events - 10%
- Help organize small cultivation events, identify hosts and facilitate invitee outreach
- Coordinate with Development and Communications colleagues on pre- and post-event communications needs
Other Support - 5%
- Coordinate with CDO’s portfolio of fundraising work as appropriate and assigned
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree
- 3-5 years’ relevant fundraising experience
- A working knowledge of Raiser’s Edge/NXT and Microsoft Excel
- Proven record of accomplishment in a position requiring independent planning and problem solving, and the effective utilization of time and resources
- Ability to use shared project management tools
- This is a remote position with travel required up to 30% of the time with occasional nights and weekends.
- A passport is required for travel in North America.
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
- Be both donor-centric and detail-oriented, while demonstrating consistency and exceptional quality in work deliverables
- Excellent interpersonal skills, specifically the emotional intelligence to thoughtfully engage and build relationships with colleagues, volunteers, prospects, and donors
- Excellent communication skills (written, verbal, listening); engages effectively with staff, volunteers, prospects and donors
- Demonstrates confidence when interacting with VIPs and work colleagues, senior executives, major philanthropists, and Board and volunteer leaders
- Conveys a professional approach, demonstrates honesty, integrity and respect
- Thrives in a collaborative, inclusive and innovative work environment
- Self-starter, accurate, and consistently meets deadlines
- Conducts work with utmost discretion and confidentiality
SALARY RANGE: $70K-$80K annually; generous retirement contribution.
Physical Requirements & Working Conditions
- Regular computer use throughout the day, ability to sit for lengthy time periods
- Stand, walk, reach with hands and arms; balance, stoop and kneel
- Ability to speak, read, write, see, and hear to perform essential duties of the job
- Ability to travel up to 30% of the time. Work on occasional evenings and weekends
- Lift/push/pull/carry various objects of up to 10 lbs. occasionally
Note: Employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background check.
Other Considerations
The Hertz Foundation is headquartered in Pleasanton, CA. This role will be performed remotely, with preference for candidates located in the Boston or New York metro area. All technology required for this remote role will be provided.
In addition to donor visits in key markets, occasional travel will be required for all-team staff meetings, biannual meetings of the Board of Directors and the annual Summer Workshop for all Fellows, generally held in July or August in varying locations across the U.S. and North America.
Benefits include sick time and vacation accrual, holidays, and an annual contribution to a SEP-IRA established for the employee.
Another benefit of working at the Hertz Foundation is time off during the holiday season (typically the last two weeks of December). As a member of the Development Team, the Individual Giving Officer should be accessible and available for urgent donor-related matters during this period, within reason, outside of recognized holidays.
The Hertz Foundation is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other basis covered by appropriate law.
About the Hertz Foundation
The Hertz Foundation is a nonprofit organization that identifies the nation’s most promising innovators in science and technology and empowers them to pursue solutions to the nation’s toughest challenges. Launched in 1963, the Hertz Fellowship is the most exclusive fellowship program in the United States, fueling more than 1,200 leaders, disruptors, and creators who apply their remarkable talent where it’s needed most—from improving human health to protecting the health of the planet. Hertz Fellows hold 3,000+ patents, have founded 200+ companies, and have received 200+ major national and international awards, including two Nobel Prizes, eight Breakthrough Prizes, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the Fields Medal, and the Turing Award. Learn more at HertzFoundation.org.
Our staff and advisors are working to create a better future every day. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Whether in-person or remote, we are a team of active optimists who strive to create an inclusive, positive, and supportive work environment where everyone can achieve their best.