Development Director Remote - California
Remote / Online - Candidates ideally in
Bismarck, Burleigh County, North Dakota, 58502, USA
Listing for:
Delta Waterfowl Foundation
Remote/Work from Home
position
Listed on 2026-01-25
Job specializations:
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Non-Profit & Social Impact
Non-Profit / Outreach, Community Health, Volunteer / Humanitarian, Fundraising / Charity
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 10000 USD Monthly
USD
10000.00
MONTH
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Delta Waterfowl is The Duck Hunters Organization, a leading conservation group founded in 1911. We work to produce ducks through intensive management programs and conservation of breeding duck habitat. Delta conducts vital waterfowl research and promotes and protects the continuing tradition of waterfowl hunting in North America.
Our Mission is to produce ducks and secure the future of waterfowl hunting.
Our Vision is abundant waterfowl and endless opportunities for hunters.
Delta’s international headquarters is located in Bismarck, North Dakota. Currently, our dedicated team consists of almost 100 employees, of which about half work within our headquarters office and the other half work remotely throughout the US and Canada. Our organization has experienced tremendous growth over the last few years, and this is expected to continue. This is an exciting time for Delta as we look to the future, and we are looking for talented and skilled individuals who have a passion to perform meaningful work to join our team!
JOB
SUMMARY
Seasoned, major gift fundraising professional with experience prospecting, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding a relationship-based portfolio of approximately 100 – 125 active individual, foundation, corporate and agency/association major giving prospects, focusing primarily on gifts of $10,000 - $100,000. Additionally, the Development Director will be responsible for actively identifying and securing planned gift agreements.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Actively cultivate, solicit and steward a major gift portfolio of 100-125 donor prospects to reach annual dollar and activity goals.Identify and recruit new major donors/gift prospects.Engage appropriate donors in conversation about their estate gift planning to reach annual Planned Giving Agreement goals.Embrace the prescribed team donor moves management protocol in accordance with donor life cycle best practices.Actively maintain constituent contact information and dynamic opportunity (solicitation) pipeline.Record and update the daily prospecting, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship activities.Annually create and follow relationship and solicitation maps for top 20 major gift prospects.Build deep, lasting relationships and trusted reputation through individual engagement and appropriate participation in community organizations, events and other positive visibility opportunities.Provide timely communications to major donors/prospects including research, program and annual report updates as well as appropriate stewardship and acknowledgement activities.Collaborate, share information and support the work of fellow major gift solicitors.Actively participate in development meetings, portfolio strategy meetings and donor assignment meetings.Engage senior leadership and (when appropriate) Board Members to best position the most appropriate and fulfilling donor solicitations.Partner closely with others to best utilize and support the Chapter and banquet system network.Work with development writers to draft written solicitations, proposals, gift agreements and stewardship collateral as needed.Other duties as assigned.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Communications, Wildlife Science or related field and three or more years’ experience in major, planned and or principal gift fundraising and/or high net worth sales experience, focused on 1:1 relationship-based close of gifts/sales of $10,000+.Ability to identify major giving prospects, creatively secure face-to-face donor interactions, nurture the relationship to a solicitation and successfully move the relationship to a closed gift.Innate, self-motivated ability to help build and execute a donor portfolio management plan in a remote, matrixed working environment.General knowledge and experience with estate planning and securing planned gift agreements.Strong face-to-face presentation skills with individuals and small groups of sophisticated donors.Ability to construct, articulate, and implement fundraising strategies and reports.Strong written development communication skills, including proposal and grant preparation.Excellent computer skills, including MS…
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