Mid-Level Giving Manager

Objective

Provides strategy for Mid-Level Giving Program

Responsibilities

• Coordinates planning and strategy for developing mid-level giving program, driving growth of mid-level donor contributions within the current donor base through a range of strategies, ultimately intended to build a strong pipeline for major gift giving.
• Solicits additional gifts and cultivates new donors through direct mail solicitations and station events.
• Prepares weekly tracking and progress reports to senior management including contacts, pledges and gifts.
• Develop written materials, outreach strategies, and campaign elements for outreach to mid-level donor contributions, coordinating as needed with the digital team and development team for creative inputs, data and other elements.
• Works with Development staff on screening and preparing profiles of current and prospective donors, establishes and refines benchmarks for department research process, incorporating key cultivation and growth metrics for annual sustainers, using “Moves Management” strategies to continuously move donors toward higher giving ranges.
• Provides support for Philanthropy team, including mail merges, acknowledgements, renewals, and all development campaigns.
• Responsible for processing all CARS donations, creating accounts, assigning relationship managers and coordinating CARS print/digital communications.
• Works with the Philanthropy team for post event follow-up of attendees and immediate cultivation and identification of potential major donors.
• Creates and runs queries, reviews weekly donation reports for BC upgrade/downgrade and new donors, assigns relationship manager.
• Monitor public media giving trends and attend webinars, educational sessions on fundraising, or conferences to identify effective new fundraising approaches.
• Adheres to the safety and security policies of the station.
• Performs any other duties of an incidental nature as assigned.

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