Job Description
Major Gifts Officer
Internet Archive
Full Time
Location: San Francisco
Salary: $112,500.00 To $137,500.00 Annually
Job Summary
Reports to the Director of Philanthropy and works as a member of the Philanthropy team. Responsibilities include: cultivating and soliciting a portfolio of relationships with existing major gift prospects, as well as identifying new major donor prospects; participating in weekly team meetings; persuading prospects to support Archive projects; and working collaboratively with the Development Director and team on external fundraising events.
Full Job Description
Internet Archive is a non-profit library, headquartered in San Francisco, with an ambitious mission: to provide “Universal Access to All Knowledge” — the books, web pages, audio, television and software of our shared human culture. Our 150 team members have built one of the top 300 websites in the world, https://archive.org/. The Internet Archive digitizes thousands of books a day and collects a hundred million web pages a week. In its 25+ years, it has built one of the largest digital libraries in the world by working with hundreds of national and international libraries, archives, museums, universities, and non-profits.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
Basic Abilities
IMPORTANT: We like cover letters. It helps us see how you communicate and express yourself in writing. Candidates who provide a cover letter will be prioritized.
Benefits & Perks
Internet Archive works with Open Staffing Foundation to recruit, hire and retain staff. Open Staffing Foundation offers a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and retirement programs.
Company Website
https://www.archive.org
Company Address
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA
94118
US
How to Apply
Contact Email
Joy@archive.org
Additional Contact Email
janet@archive.org
Internet Archive
Full Time
Location: San Francisco
Salary: $112,500.00 To $137,500.00 Annually
Job Summary
Reports to the Director of Philanthropy and works as a member of the Philanthropy team. Responsibilities include: cultivating and soliciting a portfolio of relationships with existing major gift prospects, as well as identifying new major donor prospects; participating in weekly team meetings; persuading prospects to support Archive projects; and working collaboratively with the Development Director and team on external fundraising events.
Full Job Description
Internet Archive is a non-profit library, headquartered in San Francisco, with an ambitious mission: to provide “Universal Access to All Knowledge” — the books, web pages, audio, television and software of our shared human culture. Our 150 team members have built one of the top 300 websites in the world, https://archive.org/. The Internet Archive digitizes thousands of books a day and collects a hundred million web pages a week. In its 25+ years, it has built one of the largest digital libraries in the world by working with hundreds of national and international libraries, archives, museums, universities, and non-profits.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Direct Solicitation: Secure five and six-figure gifts to reach an initial $1 million annual goal (with subsequent increases annually).
- Donor-Centric Philanthropy: Align the Internet Archive’s needs with the specific philanthropic goals and ambitions of individual donors.
- Relationship Building: Acknowledge major donors through a variety of creative outreach implementation strategies and fundraising event plans.
- Creative Stewardship: Manage large gifts with an understanding that sustainability and “building loyalty” are equally important.
- Systems Management: Maintain and manage donor activities within the customer relationship management system (CiviCRM) database.
- Moves Management: Create and execute structured fundraising plans to move donors through the pipeline (from identification to solicitation).
- Strategic Tracking: Knowledge of database systems to track and cultivate donors and prospects, including using donor wealth screening tools to build donor prospect profiles and plans.
- Internal Reporting: Provide daily workflow plans and maintain a constant feedback loop with the Director of Development.
- Progress Monitoring: Track and report progress to the Development Director using specific metrics and relationship model frameworks, and ensure major gifts are cultivated and solicited on a weekly basis.
Basic Abilities
- A commitment to the mission – to provide “Universal Access to All Knowledge”
- Possesses a learning mindset and a flexible approach to work, and adaptability to a non-traditional and unique work culture.
- Possesses high energy, a creative outlook and innovative thinking.
- Impeccable communication and writing skills, with an ability to communicate information and ideas clearly on paper and in a persuasive manner.
- Adept at writing proposals, solicitation letters, donor correspondence, and other fundraising offers and materials.
- Skilled people-person with an outgoing nature; capable of empathizing with donors, as well as inspiring and influencing them.
- Knows how to work as a team player who is willing to share knowledge and be open to learning and feedback from others.
- Possesses exceptional organizational and administrative skills with the ability to to stay focused and meet deadlines.
- Knows how to create effective development strategies.
- Proficient in Google suite, Slack, Asana, and donor databases.
- Capable of solving problems with sound judgment and practical approaches – solution-oriented.
- Knows how to perform data analysis.
- Required: A minimum of 5+ years of working as a major gift officer with major donors and family foundations.
- Required: Documented experience and quantifiable success in raising five, six and seven figure gifts.
- Required: Experience managing a full-spectrum portfolio of donors with an emphasis on engaging major donors in long-term fundraising by offering opportunities to contribute multi-year gifts and engagement in the mission
- Required: Experience working with Google suite, Slack, Asana, and donor databases that aid in the moves management process.
- Required: Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
- Preferred: Experience with events management and prospect research
IMPORTANT: We like cover letters. It helps us see how you communicate and express yourself in writing. Candidates who provide a cover letter will be prioritized.
Benefits & Perks
Internet Archive works with Open Staffing Foundation to recruit, hire and retain staff. Open Staffing Foundation offers a comprehensive benefits package, including PTO, paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision benefits, health savings and flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, short-term and long-term disability coverage, and retirement programs.
Company Website
https://www.archive.org
Company Address
300 Funston Avenue
San Francisco, CA
94118
US
How to Apply
Contact Email
Joy@archive.org
Additional Contact Email
janet@archive.org