Senior Donor Relations Officer

The role

The Senior Donor Relations Officer manages a portfolio of high-capacity major gift donors. This person develops donor strategies and secures significant philanthropic commitments to support the organization's mission.

What you will do

• Manage a portfolio of approximately 100 high-capacity major gift donors and prospects.
• Develop and execute individualized strategies for donor qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Personally solicit and secure significant new, renewed, and increased gifts, including six-figure and seven-figure commitments.
• Build trusted, long-term donor relationships.
• Create donor engagement and stewardship opportunities.
• Strategically engage PLF executives, attorneys, trustees, and other organizational leaders.
• Identify and advance new major gift prospects and complex gift opportunities.
• Maintain a disciplined portfolio and moves management including CRM records.
• Contribute to Development team strategy.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of professional fundraising experience, including substantial frontline major gift experience.
• Demonstrated record of personally cultivating, soliciting, and closing significant major gifts.
• Exceptional interpersonal, listening, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Strong strategic judgment, initiative, organization, and personal accountability.
• Proficiency with fundraising CRM systems and disciplined portfolio and moves management practices.
• Willingness to travel up to 50% throughout the United States, with a heavy focus throughout California.
• A sincere appreciation for PLF’s mission

Nice to have

• Previous experience with a pro-liberty organization, legal advocacy organization, public policy organization, or similar mission-driven institution
• Experience with Salesforce or a comparable fundraising CRM

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Employer-paid retirement savings
• Generous paid leave
• Flextime policies

About the company

Pacific Legal Foundation is a public interest law firm dedicated to vindicating individual liberty. It uses strategic litigation, communications, and research to battle for freedom in courts and the court of public opinion.