Senior Philanthropic Advisor

In partnership with Pearl Street, a Lindauer company, Cure Alzheimer’s Fund (CureAlz) seeks a proactive and donor-centric fundraising professional to serve in a strategic frontline role as Senior Philanthropic Advisor.

This role will contribute meaningfully to the organization’s vital mission of funding research with the highest probability of preventing, slowing, or reversing Alzheimer’s disease.

The Senior Philanthropic Advisor (SPA) will join a high-performing team of mission-driven professionals who have led the organization to increasingly higher levels of philanthropic success since its founding 22 years ago.

Working in close partnership with Development leadership, colleagues, and CureAlz’s Trustees and Board, the Senior Philanthropic Advisor will cultivate and steward high-net-worth individuals and families capable of major and principal gifts, deepening long-term relationships while inspiring transformational support for urgently needed scientific breakthroughs.

Grounded in CureAlz’s venture philanthropy model, defined by speed, rigor, and collaboration, the SPA will help expand the organization’s community of committed investors in science and deliver the philanthropic resources that accelerate the path to impact.

Reporting to the Vice President of Development, the SPA will personally build and manage a portfolio of high-net-worth individuals and families with direct involvement in the identification, cultivation, and solicitation of major and principal level gifts (five-, six- and seven-figures), and advance conversations for blended and/or complex planned gifts.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and manage a portfolio of individuals and families capable of making gifts of $25K-$1M+ (major gift minimum is currently $10,001).

• Design programs and events to engage and cultivate major donors that, in the near-term, bring resources to Cure Alzheimer's Fund and lead to significant long-term major gifts from individuals and families.

• Identify opportunities for and execute "State of the Mind" cultivation receptions that individuals, groups, and organizations host for the benefit of Cure Alzheimer's Fund.

• Conduct donor research, as necessary.

• Collaborate with other staff, within the Development team and across Cure Alzheimer's Fund, to continue growing the major gift donor base and fostering the engagement of donors and prospects.

Key Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; master's degree preferred or relevant work experience.

• Minimum of seven years of frontline fundraising focused on high-net-worth individuals.

• Demonstrated major donor cultivation strategy, planning, and implementation experience as well as leading engaged volunteer committees.

• Superlative diplomatic and communication skills, including an ability to work and communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of constituents (individual donors, business leaders, attorneys, and colleagues), across a broad range of cultural environments.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and CRM databases (Raiser's Edge or Salesforce a plus), project management, and collaboration tools.

• An entrepreneurial spirit, one that takes initiative and actively seeks to deepen current donor relationships and forge new ones.

Pearl Street Collective, now part of Lindauer, has been exclusively retained for this engagement. To apply or view full the position description, please visit https://www.pearlstreetcollective.com/positions/caf-spa.