Community Philanthropy Senior Developer - Individual Giving

Job Homebase: 7900 NE 33rd Drive Portland, Oregon

Reports To: Community Philanthropy Manager - Individual Giving

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary:

You will join 40+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger’s root causes. Together we mobilize $40M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank’s mission to realize OFB’s 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropy’s true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core. Learn more from our team members daring to imagine and leading to create a more just experience of philanthropy.

As the Community Philanthropy Senior Developer - Individual Giving, you will contribute to the organization’s success through relationship development and resource mobilization, engaging complex and high-impact individual supporters and foundations to meet Community Philanthropy and Oregon Food Bank’s goals and strategic priorities. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Manager - Individual Giving with primary duties focused on relationship management with individuals and foundations, project management, and mentorship of individual giving and grants team colleagues.

The Community Philanthropy Senior Developer - Individual Giving can perform their duties onsite with dedicated desk space within an Oregon Food Bank facility, or predominantly working from a home office while maintaining a regular in-person presence with supporters in the community and periodically-required visits to OFB facilities. Accommodations can be made and candidates are encouraged to inquire.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Successfully engage, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of 150 complex individual donor relationships with major, leadership, and principal gift capacity (giving capacity of $25,000 to $1,000,000+) to deepen relationships while utilizing equity-driven messaging that centers our clients, identifies systemic oppression as hunger’s root cause, and furthers Oregon Food Bank and Community Philanthropy’s annual goals and priorities.
  • Strategically engage and retain philanthropic partners to make Oregon Food Bank a political home and facilitate donors’ political journey, increase the average donation amount, and help to foster transformational and regenerative relationship development over time.
  • Develop and implement an annual plan to manage the portfolio, designing and successfully implementing tailored cultivation, engagement, solicitation and stewardship activities for all donors in the portfolio.
  • Develop a deep understanding of OFB programs and maintain working knowledge of organizational priorities and funding opportunities for donors.
  • Utilize principles of Moves Management and detail donor interactions and appropriate notes in The Raiser’s Edge as set forth by OFB.
• Research and plan strategies and communications that involve cross-departmental collaboration and planning in order to move these relationships forward.
• Consult with the OFB Network regarding major gifts toward annual priorities as requested and appropriate.
• Work in close collaboration with the Community Philanthropy leadership as requested to develop long-range program planning.
• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• 4 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility in relationship development and effectiveness in major, leadership, and/or principal gifts fundraising with individual supporters.
• Ability and willingness to ask for financial support from individuals. Skilled at writing proposals and reports, preparing and delivering presentations and creating donor materials that may contain technical information.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with high degree of emotional intelligence, possessing cultural agility and ability to work effectively with diverse groups of individuals and communities.
• Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.
• Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office) and donor databases, preferably Raiser’s Edge. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools is a plus!

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with institutions and relationship-building with decision-makers in institutions that function as individual donor giving vehicles and are guided more by individual decision-making than is customary in traditional foundations (e.g. instead of institutions with large professional staff guided by RFPs and grant-making cycles).
• Association of Fundraising Professionals CFRE
• 40+ hours of: AFP and/or APRA and/or CASE and/or AASP and/or People's Nonprofit Accelerator (formerly WVDO) Certifications (role specific)
• 40+ Hour Leadership Development Certification from Rockwood Leadership Institute (or "like" institution of comparable credibility)
• 40+ Hour DEI Certification (from Oregon Food Bank’s Equity Institute, State of Oregon’s Sexual Assault Training Institute, YWCA of Columbia-Willamette, Raphael House of Portland or "like" institution of comparable credibility)
• Experience working in a non-profit with an affiliated 501(c)3 and 501(c)4