Area Director
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Area Director cultivating $25,000+ donors and raising $1.5M annually for World Vision. Advancing its Christian humanitarian work addressing poverty and injustice.
Responsibilities:
- Develop long-term, effective relationships with individuals and family foundations giving $25,000 or more annually
- Provide donors with a deeper understanding of holistic needs in the world and challenge them to respond through World Vision’s ministry
- Help carry out World Vision’s Christian mission, vision, and strategies
- Witness to Christ and minister through life, deed, word, and sign
- Raise a minimum of $1,500,000 each fiscal year through private special funding, multi-year commitments, and gift planning
- Recommend gifts of appreciated assets when possible
- Plan and implement account management strategies for assigned accounts
- Develop relationships with prospects and connect donor interests with World Vision’s mission and ministry
- Network through current donors to identify new major-gift prospects
- Arrange interactions between major donors and World Vision’s president, senior leadership, field staff, and domestic/international projects
- Take qualified donors and prospects on trips to World Vision project sites
- Work with gift-planning staff on donor-advised funds, stock gifts, wills, and related arrangements
- Represent World Vision U.S. in speaking engagements and media interviews
- Attend job-related training programs
- Collaborate with team members when assigned
- Maintain awareness of corporate goals, objectives, announcements, and activities
- Follow organizational policies and procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent eight years of work experience
- Five years of work experience in fundraising or sales
- Demonstrated ability to manage major accounts
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S.A. for any employer
- Ability to travel up to 50% of the time within the U.S.
- Frequent domestic and some international travel
- Frequent weekend and evening work to accommodate donor schedules
- May require trips to hazardous locations
- Networking skills: builds and sustains an active network of contacts and builds rapport, trust, and positive relationships
- Prospecting skills: asks questions, listens to donors, identifies giving opportunities, qualifies donors, and proactively contacts others
- Thorough fundraising knowledge, including fundraising campaigns, appeals, programs, fundraising sources, and competition for funds
- Christian conduct and active participation in spiritual disciplines, including chapel, prayer, worship, devotions, and leadership of devotions
- Incorporates World Vision core values into decisions
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits package (details provided via World Vision U.S. benefits link)
- Training programs as assigned
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