Senior Officer, Strategic Philanthropy

November 26, 2024
Application ends: May 26, 2025
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Deadline date:
May 26, 2025

Job Description

• Strategy Development: Implement the overarching strategy in coordination with Senior Director to grow revenue and influence with DAFs, CFs, and private wealth advisors in collaboration with External Relations leads that supports revenue growth toward the IRC’s Strategy 100.

• Portfolio Management: Maintain a portfolio of national DAFs and the large CFs to promote awareness of IRC as a top-tier humanitarian relief agency and local impact organization. Develop high-level relationships within institutions (e.g., CEOs, Senior Leads for Nonprofit) and facilitate introductions for other team members.

• Educational Opportunities: Collaborate with the Corporates Team to develop educational opportunities and brand positioning for advisors at institutions within the portfolio. Expand IRC’s engagement with new financial institutions in the private wealth sector.

• Marketing Integration: Support the mass markets vision and strategy by integrating IRC engagement in external marketing opportunities such as DAF Day, Giving Tuesday, and other strategic giving opportunities.

• Internal Processes: Champion internal processes and innovation to facilitate increased giving and troubleshoot issues such as donation capabilities, acknowledgements, and reporting.

• Resource Support: Serve as a resource for internal team members on the benefits of DAF giving, working with smaller community foundations, and integrating DAF giving into donor conversations.

• Dashboard Management: Establish and maintain a DAF dashboard measuring current and historical account engagement, number of individual donors, and individual donor revenue for DAFs and CFs across External Relations Teams.

• Communication: Communicate DAF progress, engagements, initiatives, and issues across the organization. Convene a quarterly update for the working group and other appropriate parties.

Success Metrics

• Leadership: Guide implementation of cross-functional strategy for DAFs, CFs and wealth advisors with engagement and adoption from key partners within the IRC.

• Engagement Quality: Number and quality of engagements with DAFs, CFs, and allied professionals, including personal networking, educational events, and involvement in large-scale opportunities like DAF Day and Giving Tuesday.

• Internal Collaboration: Effective communication and collaboration with internal partners to share information, create new or improved opportunities for engagement and solicitation, and open doors for Foundations, Major Giving, Corporates, and RAI colleagues.

• Activity Goals: Meetings with institutions in the portfolio, number and quality of engagements with institutions and advisors that increase IRC’s profile, and collaboration with RAI offices and other internal colleagues to activate strategy. While this position will not own a specific revenue goal, it is expected to drive impact across channels, resulting in more donors and revenue for the organization.

• Reporting: Responsible for working with Data Analytics teams to create a cohesive report on DAF, CFs, and other strategic giving modalities giving year-over-year to inform benchmarks for organizational success.

source: https://reliefweb.int/job/4113229/senior-officer-strategic-philanthropy

Company Name
International Rescue Committee