Major Gifts Officer

Jewish Family & Community Services East BayBerkeley, CAAdded 2d ago

Major Gifts Officer

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Job description

📣 WE’RE HIRING: 2 MAJOR GIFTS OFFICERS! JFCS East Bay is growing our Development team and looking for two Major Gifts Officers to help deepen relationships with generous donors and advance our mission of pursuing justice, promoting healing, and creating meaningful change across the East Bay. 💙 About the Role Major Gifts Officers will cultivate, solicit, and steward individual donors and prospects, managing portfolios of major donors. You’ll build meaningful relationships, develop individualized engagement strategies, partner with executive leadership and Board members, and help connect donors to the impact of JFCS East Bay’s work. This role will also contribute to planned and legacy giving, special initiatives, community engagement, and our upcoming 150th Anniversary celebration, an exciting opportunity to help shape the next chapter of our organization! ✨ We’re looking for someone who: Has 5+ years of progressive nonprofit fundraising experience, including 3+ years managing a major donor portfolioHas demonstrated success cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding individual donorsBuilds authentic relationships and communicates mission and impact compellinglyIs strategic, collaborative, organized, and comfortable using donor CRM systems such as Salesforce or BlackbaudBrings a commitment to equity, inclusion, cultural humility, and ethical fundraisingAt JFCS East Bay, we value a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and faiths—or no faith. 📍 Join us in building stronger families, supporting people impacted by trauma, advancing housing justice, providing immigration legal services, and helping refugees build new lives. 👉 Interested? Review the full job description, qualifications, and application details here: https://jfcs-eastbay.org/who-we-are/careers/ Please share this opportunity with someone in your network who would be a great fit! 💙

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