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Senior Major Gifts Officer
Living GoodsWashington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 16 May 2026
💰 $120,000/yr($100,000/yr – $120,000/yr)
About the role
Role: Senior Major Gifts Officer
Reports to: Director, Global Business Development
Location: Remote: The candidate can be based anywhere in the USA East Coast; preference is for Washington DC.
About Living Goods:
Living Goods (LG) is a leading non-profit organization innovatively transforming the health of vulnerable communities. For over 15 years, Living Goods has worked alongside governments in Kenya, Uganda and Burkina Faso to strengthen community health systems so that frontline delivery works at scale. —continuously adapting to meet the needs of underserved communities. Today, as the global health funding landscape shifts and expectations for impact grow, Living Goods is evolving once again. Guided by deep experience and a commitment to innovation, we are entering a new phase focused on what we do best: partnering with government to build high-performing, scalable community health systems that deliver the health care services families need.
Our forthcoming 2027–2030 strategy is designed to meet this moment. It centers on end-to-end performance optimization—strengthening the foundations of government-led systems, institutionalizing and scaling proven solutions, and developing new approaches to address emerging challenges. This includes harnessing the power of digital tools, data, and cutting-edge technologies such as AI to better support community health workers (CHWs) and the systems around them.
Working in close partnership with governments, we aim to ensure CHWs are equipped with the tools, supervision, and data-driven insights needed to deliver high-quality care at scale. By 2030, Living Goods will support governments in our core countries to enable 50,000 CHWs to reach 25 million people—contributing to at least a 10% reduction in under-five and maternal mortality.
The opportunity:
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:
Reports to: Director, Global Business Development
Location: Remote: The candidate can be based anywhere in the USA East Coast; preference is for Washington DC.
About Living Goods:
Living Goods (LG) is a leading non-profit organization innovatively transforming the health of vulnerable communities. For over 15 years, Living Goods has worked alongside governments in Kenya, Uganda and Burkina Faso to strengthen community health systems so that frontline delivery works at scale. —continuously adapting to meet the needs of underserved communities. Today, as the global health funding landscape shifts and expectations for impact grow, Living Goods is evolving once again. Guided by deep experience and a commitment to innovation, we are entering a new phase focused on what we do best: partnering with government to build high-performing, scalable community health systems that deliver the health care services families need.
Our forthcoming 2027–2030 strategy is designed to meet this moment. It centers on end-to-end performance optimization—strengthening the foundations of government-led systems, institutionalizing and scaling proven solutions, and developing new approaches to address emerging challenges. This includes harnessing the power of digital tools, data, and cutting-edge technologies such as AI to better support community health workers (CHWs) and the systems around them.
Working in close partnership with governments, we aim to ensure CHWs are equipped with the tools, supervision, and data-driven insights needed to deliver high-quality care at scale. By 2030, Living Goods will support governments in our core countries to enable 50,000 CHWs to reach 25 million people—contributing to at least a 10% reduction in under-five and maternal mortality.
The opportunity:
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.
- Identify and Secure New Funding. Living Goods is grateful to have a strong base of individual donors. But our goals are ambitious and so we have a need to increase the number of major donors with whom we work.
- 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.
- Relationship Management & Stewardship. This individual will manage a portfolio of existing donors and prospects.
- Build and manage a portfolio of individual and family foundation donors, each
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