Jobs and Careers
LI
Senior Major Gifts Officer
Living GoodsWashington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 28 Oct 2025
💰 $100,000/yr
About the role
Role: Senior Major Gifts Officer
Reports to: Director, Global Business Development
Location: The candidate can be based anywhere in the USA East Coast; preference is for Washington DC.
Introduction:
Do you want your work to matter? Do you want to use your skills to make a difference, not just a living? Do you want to improve millions of lives, including your own?
Living Goods works to reinvent how we improve the lives of the under-served. We think big but operate small and nimble. We train community health workers to bring life-saving products and health services to families’ doorsteps. Services like prenatal assessments and well-baby visits. Products like medicines, fortified foods, and modern contraceptives.
We also empower community health workers through mobile phones. We teach them how to detect and treat common illnesses like pneumonia, malaria, malnutrition, and diarrhea. We develop smart phone apps to guide home visits and create predictive algorithms to make the best use of community health workers' time. And we test new cool tools like paperless referrals to clinics and biosensors to monitor infant and child growth.
At Living Goods, you will have the chance to apply your ideas and creativity at work every day. If you work well in a dynamic collaborative culture, set high standards, and meet challenges with determination and a sense of humor, you’ll thrive here at Living Goods!
The opportunity:
Living Goods is growing rapidly. Last year we reached more than 7 million people. In 2021, we will reach more than 25 million. Reaching more people requires more funding.
We are looking for someone who wants to pour their heart and soul into helping us build a major gifts strategy that will bring in upwards of $5M annually for this essential work. This person will be responsible for identifying and securing funds from individual donors and family foundations. We want self-starters who are excited to work in a growing organization, have experience securing 6- and 7-figure gifts, organized, and like to have fun. This position will require cultural intelligence and a collaborative leadership style.
As a member of the Development team, the Senior MGO will be responsible for the qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of prospects and donors capable of giving at least $100K/year. The Senior MGO will liaise with the Director of Global Business Development and other LG leadership in some of their cultivation efforts while managing their own portfolio of major gift prospects and donors.
Key Responsibilities:
Co-develop and Drive Major Gifts Strategy. This position is responsible for working with the Director of Global Business Development to ultimately help drive the mission-critical function of cultivating and securing six- and seven-figure major gifts from individuals and family foundations. This position will:
Reports to: Director, Global Business Development
Location: The candidate can be based anywhere in the USA East Coast; preference is for Washington DC.
Introduction:
Do you want your work to matter? Do you want to use your skills to make a difference, not just a living? Do you want to improve millions of lives, including your own?
Living Goods works to reinvent how we improve the lives of the under-served. We think big but operate small and nimble. We train community health workers to bring life-saving products and health services to families’ doorsteps. Services like prenatal assessments and well-baby visits. Products like medicines, fortified foods, and modern contraceptives.
We also empower community health workers through mobile phones. We teach them how to detect and treat common illnesses like pneumonia, malaria, malnutrition, and diarrhea. We develop smart phone apps to guide home visits and create predictive algorithms to make the best use of community health workers' time. And we test new cool tools like paperless referrals to clinics and biosensors to monitor infant and child growth.
At Living Goods, you will have the chance to apply your ideas and creativity at work every day. If you work well in a dynamic collaborative culture, set high standards, and meet challenges with determination and a sense of humor, you’ll thrive here at Living Goods!
The opportunity:
Living Goods is growing rapidly. Last year we reached more than 7 million people. In 2021, we will reach more than 25 million. Reaching more people requires more funding.
We are looking for someone who wants to pour their heart and soul into helping us build a major gifts strategy that will bring in upwards of $5M annually for this essential work. This person will be responsible for identifying and securing funds from individual donors and family foundations. We want self-starters who are excited to work in a growing organization, have experience securing 6- and 7-figure gifts, organized, and like to have fun. This position will require cultural intelligence and a collaborative leadership style.
As a member of the Development team, the Senior MGO will be responsible for the qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of prospects and donors capable of giving at least $100K/year. The Senior MGO will liaise with the Director of Global Business Development and other LG leadership in some of their cultivation efforts while managing their own portfolio of major gift prospects and donors.
Key Responsibilities:
Co-develop and Drive Major Gifts Strategy. This position is responsible for working with the Director of Global Business Development to ultimately help drive the mission-critical function of cultivating and securing six- and seven-figure major gifts from individuals and family foundations. This position will:
- Work with the Director of Global Business Development to establish a comprehensive major gifts funding strategy, with specific tactics, in order to secure multi-year 6-figure+ funding opportunities.
- Track, report on and – where appropriate – pivot fundraising approaches based on donor intel and trends.
- Work to create specific donor engagement plans, establish workplans and implement overall major gifts funding strategy.
- Serve as internal expert and adviser on MG revenue stream and donor strategies.
- Align fundraising efforts to Living Goods priorities; identify new and different ways of framing our work for potential funders. .
- Engage with existing funders to leverage networks.
- Identify new fundraising opportunities and work with the team to develop a significant pipeline of prospective donors.
- Advise on different ways of pitching our work, informed by trends in this revenue stream.
Apply for this role
Generate a tailored application kit with a matched cover letter, interview prep, and CV highlights — in under 60 seconds.
Apply Now →Generate Application KitFree account required — sign up in 30s