Senior Officer, Major Gifts & Planned Giving

About Fòs Feminista

Fòs Feminista is an intersectional feminist organization centered around the sexual and reproductive rights of women, girls, and gender-diverse people. Led and governed by the Global South, Fòs Feminista works as an alliance of about 200 partners and allies in 40+ countries worldwide to advance sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice (SRHRJ). Together, we expand access to sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, abortion, and care for survivors of gender-based violence, and we reach young people with comprehensive sexuality education. We are at the forefront of advocating for sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) to change national and local laws and policies, while also amplifying feminist voices in international decision-making spaces. We strengthen feminist movements and organizations by bringing partners together to exchange learnings and strategize for joint action, and providing them with flexible funding and organizational capacity strengthening to ensure their long-term sustainability. As Fòs Feminista, we aspire to co-create a feminist future where all women, girls, and gender-diverse people have the support, information, and services they need to make their own choices about their bodies and their lives.

Position Summary

As a member of the Philanthropy Unit for Foundations, Governments & Major Gifts, the Senior Officer, Major Gifts & Planned Giving will be responsible for designing and implementing a strategy for achieving annual revenue targets and planned giving opportunities for Fòs Feminista’s major gifts portfolio, while also coordinating the day-to-day operations of the program The successful candidate will manage a portfolio of approximately 100 major and planned giving donors and prospects, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding these donors to increase the flexible funding raised by Fòs Feminista year-over-year With support from the Senior Philanthropy Advisor, the Senior Officer will play a critical role in building meaningful relationships with Fòs Feminista’s top supporters with the potential to make five- and six-figure major, blended or planned gifts to advance our mission.

This very hands-on position requires an implementer with excellent interpersonal, writing, and editing skills, and attention to detail. The successful candidate will be able to multi-task, meet deadlines, build strong relationships, and have a collaborative and flexible work style to coordinate with a range of staff and external consultants.

This is an exciting opportunity to learn from and contribute to a dynamic, diverse, and growing global feminist alliance that is at the forefront of promoting sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice across the Global South.

Supervisory Relationship: The Senior Officer, Major Gifts & Planned Giving reports to the Senior Philanthropy Advisor.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement a major gifts strategy to meet annual revenue targets, increasing giving each year from individual donors with the capacity to make annual gifts of $10,000 or more.

• Strengthen engagement and build relationships with major donors and prospects through ongoing communication and virtual or face-to-face meetings.

• Organize special events for donors and prospects in key geographic hubs in the United States as well as donor trips to visit Fòs Feminista partner organizations in the Global South, fostering authentic connection to the work of our partners and the women, girls, and gender-diverse people they reach.

• Make direct solicitations to major donors for annual, blended or planned gifts and support Fòs Feminista’s senior leadership and board members to do so effectively.

• Establish KPIs for the major donor program and review the status of the portfolio regularly to track progress and adjust individual and group strategies accordingly.

• Execute and/or supervise the writing, design, and production of compelling major donor appeals and cultivation materials, in collaboration with an external fundraising agency, and the development of impact reports for select donors.

• Collaborate with colleagues across the individual giving team in closing gifts from donor advised funds, IRA charitable distributions and stocks as well as planned giving bequests and beneficiary designations.

• Work closely with the individual giving team to identify, research and qualify major and planned giving donor prospects and moves management strategies to cultivate higher giving. Collaborate with the Philanthropy Lead and Senior Philanthropy Advisor to implement a planned giving outreach strategy for the major donor portfolio, with proactive cultivation of strong planned giving prospects.

• Develop and sustain collaborative working relationships with programs and advocacy staff to gather stories of impact and devise new fundraising strategies to meet the needs of Fòs Feminista’s local partners.

• Execute and/or supervise research on prospects and current donors and the preparation of donor profiles and briefing memos.

• Manage the acknowledgement process for major gifts.

• Execute and/or coordinate the creation of mailing lists in Salesforce, as well as reports to support portfolio analysis.

• Ensure the timely entry of all major donor communication into Salesforce (including phone calls, emails, meeting reports, etc.), ensuring the integrity of the database by maintaining up-to-date and accurate donor information.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field required with a minimum of 5-7 years of frontline fundraising experience and a proven track record of cultivating, soliciting and closing five- and six-figure gifts

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• A deep understanding of and commitment to sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice through an intersectional feminist lens

• A solid understanding of the philanthropic sector in the United States; knowledge of feminist approaches to philanthropy preferred

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; ability to build relationships and inspire action from donors

• Fluency in English required; proficiency in Spanish and/or French preferred

• Ability and willingness to travel within the United States, and to Latin America and other Global South locations as required

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects with strong attention to detail

• Ability to remain highly organized in a multi-faceted organization and drive towards goals

• Commitment to anti-racism, including a process of self-reflection and transformation around implicit bias

• High degree of discretion, particularly as it pertains to sensitive donor information

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Outlook and experience working with donor databases; Salesforce preferred.

Location: United States, fully remote

Compensation and Benefits:

The annual salary for this role is USD $ 90,006.76.

Our exceptional full-time benefits include: a generous employer sponsored retirement contribution of 11.37% from the onset with no employee match required; Annual salary adjustments and Performance based increases as budget permits; Generous Paid time off (23 vacation days, 12 sick days and 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave); Generous health insurance coverage (90% premium paid by the employer) ;Life Insurance coverage up to 200K; Long term disability; Wellness discounts as well as flexible working arrangements.

Safeguarding Commitments

Fòs Feminista is committed to ensuring that the health, rights and wellbeing of all children, young people, and vulnerable populations who work and engage with Fòs Feminista ’s Team Members and Associated Persons are respected and protected in their interactions with them and requires all its Team Members and Associated Persons to share this commitment.

The successful candidate must:

• Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in the United States and the international context.

• Sign and adhere to Fòs Feminista’s International Safeguarding Policy and Safeguarding Code of Conduct, including the minimum operating standards for protection from sexual exploitation and abuse (PSEA).

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

Fòs Feminista is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to advancing sexual and reproductive rights and health and dismantling inequities from a feminist intersectional lens. Reproductive justice, racial justice, and diversity are driving forces for us.

Fòs Feminista provides equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to age, race, color, disability, national origin, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital and partnership status, genetic information, veteran status or any other protected category under federal, state and local law.

At Fòs Feminista, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our employees. We strongly encourage applications from all kinds of backgrounds to build a diverse workforce in which all social and minority groups are represented.

We thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.