Job Description

The Senior Major Gift Officer is responsible for raising major gifts and planned gifts for the Wikimedia Foundation and Wikimedia Endowment, managing a portfolio of prospects, and fostering donor relationships. This role requires a combination of personalized cultivation and broad email outreach.

Responsibilities

• Secure increasing revenue through major gifts
• Cultivate and steward a portfolio of 75-100 prospects
• Solicit and secure major and planned gifts
• Foster donor relationships
• Develop donor cultivation events
• Create fundraising materials
• Manage donor communications
• Participate in donor identification
• Assist with gift administration
• Track donor contact

Requirements

• 4 years of fundraising experience, 3+ years in major gifts
• Record of raising 4-5 figure gifts
• Knowledge of development activities
• Excellent relationship management skills
• Strong verbal and writing skills
• Autonomy and accountability
• Confidentiality and discretion
• Ability to travel

Benefits

• No benefits