Major Gifts Officer

The American Constitution Society (ACS) seeks a dynamic, collaborative, and driven fundraising professional to serve as Major Gifts Officer. Reporting to the VP of Development and collaborating with all levels of the ACS team, the Major Gifts Officer has a unique opportunity to support ambitious goals around expansion of resources from individual donors for the nation’s leading progressive legal organization. This role provides strategic leadership for individual fundraising and stakeholder engagement, ensuring the organization builds strong, lasting relationships with donors.

• Grow the organization’s resources through innovative, dynamic fundraising strategies, and effective communications with donors and prospects.
• Lead efforts to engage and cultivate current and prospective ACS major donors to increase contributed revenue.
• Actively manage a portfolio of donor prospects, including all aspects of moves management.
• Build out a major donor/high net-worth individual cultivation and engagement process.
• Act as a thought partner to the VP of Development to support organization fundraising goals.
• Report regular progress against strategic and operational goals, including donor engagement and stewardship touchpoints, revenue targets, and pipeline management details.

• Develop and help execute opportunities to use existing and new ACS events as fundraising vehicles.

• Implement a data-driven annual giving solicitation system; employ and monitor proactive strategies to increase performance metrics such as average gift size, donor retention, acquisition, and upgrades, and return on investment.

Candidates should possess five or more years of successful fundraising with increasing responsibility. Desired qualities and background include:

• Record of accomplishment in fundraising; experience developing or growing a major gifts program, and experience with planned gifts and endowments desired.
• Experience building and expanding relationships with diverse constituencies, both internal and external.
• Commitment to ACS’s mission and vision, experience in the pro-democracy field a plus.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Strategic thinker with organizational, project management, and problem-solving skills.
• Possess a command of cultural sensitivity and value and embrace cultural, political, and social differences. The Major Gifts Officer will contribute to an environment that encourages diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Strong professional ethics, transparency, integrity, and accountability in all actions.

• Bachelor’s degree required;
  Advanced degree preferred.