Major Gift Officer - San Diego, United States - Favor International

Description

Favor International serves to transform war-torn victims into purpose-driven disciples of Christ, equipped to advance the Gospel in villages and mobilized to advance the Kingdom in nations.

Favor brings the Gospel to serve broken communities, the traumatized, and the poor thereby multiplying discipled leaders, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to bring Biblical solutions to their own cultures.

Favor International is a $9.8m nonprofit organization with 8 employees in the United States and 880 trained indigenous missionaries who perform the work in Uganda, South Sudan and other parts of Africa.

The Tampa-based mission agency is engaged in evangelism, discipleship, education, church planting, community development, and humanitarian relief.

Through their work, they show God's love and follow the Great Commission and train indigenous leaders to create sustainable change.

THE OPPORTUNITY

WHAT THEY DO

As a Christian organization, Favor International exists to provide spiritual and Biblical guidance, humanitarian relief, and educational and economic development.

Favor International works among the UUPG and build churches and focuses on training, discipling and empowering new believers and communities while specifically developing Indigenous leaders to become pastors and missionaries.

Dedicated towards working with children, families, and communities primarily in Uganda and South Sudan, through the power of the Gospel, mobilized prayer and discipleship, leadership development, local community-based problem solving, and public/private cooperation; these new in Christ indigenous leaders help to transform unreached and underserved communities and the nations of Africa.

Responsibilities of the Major Gifts Officer include, but are not limited to:

Fundraising

• Understand and articulate the value the ministry provides in exchange for financial partnership.
• Identify specific relationship lists for specific relationshipbuilding actions within specific timeframes.
• Know and continuously update the articulation of Favor's "development message," a key internal document that articulates the fundamental talking points, plans, budgets, and value of supporting the ministry.
• Compose shareable plans for overseas projects and budgets.
• Schedule appointments with current and potential partners to discuss their input and participation with Favor to accomplish shared goals.
• Steward and grow a portfolio of major gift donors within the respective assigned territories.
• Follow up with new leads. Walk prospective donors through the steps of becoming longterm partners.
• Knowledgeably speak at business events, to foundations, public and private networking meetings, small groups, churches, or oneonone meetings.
• Focus actionable time on facetoface or small group meetings, instead of massive online or direct mail fundraising campaigns.
• As needed, assist in the writing of needed marketing materials.
• Support the writing, submitting, and following up with grant opportunities in the United States in cooperation with a grant writer.
• Set and meet development goals quarterly.
• Travel regularly throughout the identified territory in domestic U.S. to meet key relationships faceto

- face in accordance with plans to have at least one individually scheduled, meaningful, substantive meeting with key partners at least annually in-person.


Fundraising Support

• As necessary, provide input to the organization on legal compliance related to fundraising matters in specific regions.
• Consistently utilize approved methods of reporting using Blackbaud and WhatsApp.
• Regularly input content development on websites and other online marketing platforms.
• Proactively communicate and share information to achieve greater goals within the development team.
• Setup meetings for the Founder, US Executive Director and the Director of Development for the purposes of solicitation or stewardship of strategic donors.
• Assist the senior leadership of Favor in achieving goals for the organization.
• This position meets the daily functioning needs of a smallstaff, largevisioned ministry, so the role necessarily includes off hours emergency requests for information or action and balancing a large number of different tasks and situations with a variety of skills.

Success in this role looks like:

• Key partners are honored and engaged: they receive timely standout thanking, reports at the level of detail desired, and personalized opportunities to grow their support of this vision.
• People enjoy giving their time, talent, and treasure to Favor because the reported fruit matches what they are passionate about.
• Fundraising targets are met or exceeded
• Donor retention increases
• Demonstrates ability to cultivate relationships and close five and sixfigure gifts effectively
• Upgrading major donors (moves management)
• New qualified contacts and donors are constantly being pursued and acquired.

Qualifications:

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