Sr. Fundraising Advisor Principal Gifts

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

 

 

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Sr. Mission Advancement Advisor with a portfolio of individual principal gift prospects and donors focused on the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX metroplex region of the U.S.

 

This position can be home-based.

 

We offer a base salary with the potential to earn an incentive of up to 25% of your base pay. The potential incentive is based on achieving certain revenue targets and triggers.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

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Responsibilities

This individual will be responsible for cultivating relationships with current and past American Heart Association donors with a validated interest in our impact-centered mission, focusing on individuals.  Responsible for closing $2.5 million+ annually from individuals, this position serves as a subject matter authority on the American Heart Association’s fundraising priorities and engages individuals and their philanthropy representatives in the mission of the Association while cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donations in the seven-figures and higher.  Collaborative work, relationship-building, proposal writing, budget development, strong presentations, and experience in programmatic fundraising are central to this role.

 

• Complete a minimum of 100 meaningful interactions with donors and prospective donors each fiscal year, developing and managing a portfolio of approximately 50 individual donors across the Texas region with giving capacity in the seven-figure range.
• Conduct solicitation of 24 seven-figure gifts annually for restricted and unrestricted purposes.
• Collaborate with field directors on strategies and opportunities to identify and cultivate principal gift prospects to support market, regional, and national priorities. 
• Create and execute customized engagement strategies for donors and prospects in the portfolio to ensure the growth of donor relationships. Work with the Mission Advancement team to secure appropriate project information, including budgets, and create presentations and proposals that will be used to secure gifts.
• Maintain accurate and timely records of all activities in the donor database (Salesforce CRM). On a regular basis, report plans, activities, trends, progress, and results to Mission Advancement leadership and other various internal audiences. 
• Collaborate with Field Directors on strategies and opportunities to identify, cultivate, and solicit major gift prospects to support field events and initiatives.  Serve as a resource and leader in building staff capabilities and redefining donor and volunteer relationships across field campaigns. Leverage customized strategic events in select markets to cultivate donor relationships. Attend and support region and market activities and social events, mission-centered health events, and other hallmark events that drive the Association’s unrestricted revenue campaign.
• Participate in training activities and work with other team members to develop programs and strategies to advance revenue development for the Association.

 

Qualifications

• Five (5) years of experience.
• Experience in fundraising with at least three years focused on individual major and principal gifts (high six-figures and up) or large accounts, preferably supporting large-scale research on health and/or community issues.
• Experience planning and implementing engagement opportunities that align with organizational mission, goals, and strategies at national and local levels.
• Experience working with complex philanthropic donors or clients with proven fundraising results at the six-figure and higher gift ranges.
• Collaborative skills with all levels of staff, prospects, volunteers, and donors.
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