Position Description
Generosity Officer
About Immerse Arkansas
Immerse Arkansas was founded in 2010 with the mission of transforming youth from crisis into overcomers. The nonprofit organization serves youth between the ages of 14 and 24, whose trauma, abuse, and neglect have wreaked havoc on their relationships, identity, and resilience, multiplying the challenges of transitioning to adulthood successfully. Immerse Arkansas builds a circle of unconditional support around each youth from crisis, investing the time and tools needed to co-create a pathway to adulthood.
Immerse is a community of redemptive leaders who are grateful for the kindness shown to them by God and others, who embrace the blending of faith and strategy, and believe that adolescence and young adulthood offer an unparalleled opportunity for life-change. We believe that no young person is “beyond hope” of healing, and work to see each individual life restored. We reject the temptation to believe that we can rescue, save, fix, or manage youth from crisis, and we refuse to tell the “hero story” of helping. Rather, we embrace the messy and slow work of transformation, accepting the invitation that we ourselves will be transformed in the process.
Position role description
Reporting to the Director of Generosity, the Generosity Officer will:
- Direct a growing donor-centric major donor program, working closely with the Executive Director to ensure that these efforts are integrated with all of Immerse’s existing development and outreach work.
- Manage a 100 household major gifts portfolio; qualifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding these individuals by conducting on average at least 15 in-person visits or touch-points each month, meeting with or reaching out to current and prospective donors.
- Cultivate and expand current giving and planned giving donors and integrate planned gift objectives into major individual donor requests in collaboration with the development team
- Monitor weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual data to achieve major and planned gift commitment goals.
- Initiate and manage prospect research on individuals through the organizations files, giving records, online resources and through donor giving databases.
- Work with team members to ensure donor and prospect outreach are on brand, on message and on strategy.
- Ensure that all aspects of donor giving is accurately recorded and reported and that all donor/prospect tracking is consistent with protocols.
- Serve as a member of the development team and participate in selected program and other job related internal meetings.
Qualifications: All employees will be thoroughly committed to Immerse’s mission. The ideal candidate will embrace Immerse’s values of with, worship, and scrappy. All candidates should have the following qualifications and experience:
- 2+ years managing a major gift portfolio.
- Direct donor and prospect interaction with skills in cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.
- Entrepreneurial and creative approach to fundraising.
- Voracious commitment to learning.
- Strong people skills. Able to form effective working relationships with a wide range of people.
- Strong organizational skills and ability to drive multiple simultaneous projects to completion.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and research skills.
- Excellent project management and organizational skills with high attention to detail.
- Experience with working in Word, Excel, and databases.
- Prior experience working in a non-profit is highly desirable.
- Must demonstrate a commitment to the value of cultural competency.
- Must have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.
- Must be willing and able to travel within the assigned region on a daily basis.
- Must successfully complete a background check and drug screen.
- Must maintain current certification in CPR, First Aid, and other certifications as determined by the program.
To apply
To apply, please send your resume to careers@immersearkansas.org with Generosity Officer as the subject line of the email.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Professional development assistance
- Vision insurance
Experience level:
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Education:
Experience:
- Fundraising: 2 years (Required)
- Major gift portfolio management: 2 years (Preferred)
- non-profit: 4 years (Preferred)
Work Location: In person