Corporate and Major Gifts Officer [Musical Instrument Museum, Phoenix, AZ]

Position Summary:  This position reports to the Director of Institutional Advancement and is responsible for identifying, cultivating and securing major gifts from individuals and corporations.

Responsibilities:

• Manages relationships with corporate and major gift donors in conjunction with the Director of Institutional advancement.
• Works collaboratively with the advancement team members to cultivate donors
• Monitors all prospects to ensure continuous positive and purposeful donor relations.
• Collaborates with the IA team and senior leadership as determined by the Advancement Strategic Plan.
• Researches diverse prospect engines to identify potential individual donors and corporate donors.
• Initiates contact with potential corporate and major gift donors and develops appropriate cultivation strategies
• Moves potential donors in an appropriate and timely fashion toward solicitation and closure
• Maintains stewardship contacts with donors; adhere to the highest ethical standards; demonstrate empathetic disposition, and perseverance; reflect optimistic and positive attitude, and convey sensitivity to needs of the donors
• Focuses on securing major and corporate gifts to support MIM’s endowment, programmatic and educational activities, music theater, and unrestricted operational needs.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Masters preferred.
• Five to seven years successful experience in major or corporate gifts or related areas
• Must have a track record of building donor relationships/closing gifts in the six-figure range.
• Ability to understand the needs and interests of leadership and major gift donors in order to develop relationships between them and MIM
• Demonstrated leadership and the ability to successfully manage multi-functional areas.
• Excellent communication skills
• Successful experience in making cold calls, as well as developing cultivation and solicitation strategies.
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated record of completing assignments.

For more information visit our website at www.mim.org

To apply please click on the link below: https://home.eease.adp.com/recruit/?id=15309661