Director of Impact Partnerships
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Director of Impact Partnerships at Mary’s Meals Canada managing major gifts and strategic partnerships. Focused on cultivating donor relationships to support global initiatives with a passion for education and nutrition.
Responsibilities:
- Build a strong prospecting database
- Lead a national major gifts strategy
- Cultivate and steward donors toward long-term, multi-year commitments
- Provide strategic philanthropic leadership across the organization
- Manage and support the Manager of Partnerships after the first six months
- Track progress toward annual targets and providing timely updates to leadership
- Use data analytics to identify emerging donor trends
- Oversee CRM reporting to ensure accuracy, consistency, and strategic insight
- Make real-time recommendations to improve donor engagement
- Collaborate with the Executive Director, Senior leadership team, Marketing, and Communications
- Contribute to a culture of stewardship, values-driven fundraising, and donor respect
- Establish alignment with international counterparts to explore global partnership opportunities
- Represent Mary’s Meals at events, conferences, and stakeholder engagements
Requirements:
- 5+ years of progressive major gifts experience with a track record of six-figure fundraising
- Experience working with HNWIs, foundations, corporations, and small businesses
- A strong portfolio management approach, with CRM proficiency
- Excellent proposal writing and donor communication skills
- Experience contributing to organizational strategy
- Comfort representing an organization publicly through presentations and events
- Ability to travel across Canada, as required
- A “hunter” mindset; proactively pursuing new donor relationships and opportunities rather than waiting for leads
- Experience acquiring new business or donors, not only stewarding existing ones
- High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and prioritization skills
- CFRE designation (or in progress) is considered an asset
- A valid driver’s license (required)
Benefits:
- full health benefits
- 8% pension allotment
- annual $1,500 health spending account
- 25 vacation days per year
- one additional day awarded for each full year of service up to five years
- option to purchase an additional week of vacation



















