Oct 8th, 2024
Appalachian Mountain Club
Senior Director, Principal Gifts
( Massachusetts | On-site )
Job Description
Senior Director, Principal Gifts
About Appalachian Mountain Club
Founded in 1876, the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) is the oldest conservation and recreation organization in the United States. AMC’s mission is simple yet powerful: foster the protection, enjoyment, and understanding of the outdoors. Supported by over 90,000 members and with 11 chapters from Virginia to Maine, AMC works to conserve the mountains, forests, waters, and trails of America’s Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. AMC oversees and stewards well over 100,000 acres of land and 1,800 miles of trails and offers over 5,000 outdoor activities each year to help participants experience, appreciate, and learn more about the outdoors.
For more information about Appalachian Mountain Club, please visit https://www.outdoors.org/
About the Position
The Senior Director, Principal Gifts (SDPG) will work closely with the Chief Development Officer (CDO) and AMC’s management team as the organization launches its largest fundraising campaign in its 150-year history.
This position will be responsible for a blended set of responsibilities to include designing and implementing a high-touch principal gifts program, carrying a personal portfolio of major (six-figure) and principal (seven- and eight-figure) gift prospects, and providing oversight, coaching, and guidance to the individual giving team and partners. The SDPG will implement a best-in-class structure and process for raising major- and principal-gift level gifts that propel AMC toward its future. This includes lending support and strategic thought to AMC colleagues and volunteers who serve as relationship managers to major and principal level prospects, and ensuring that these prospects are engaged, solicited, and stewarded during this campaign. The SDPG will oversee a team of six frontline fundraisers.
Key Qualifications
• Minimum 10 years’ experience in fundraising leadership positions.
• 5+ years managing front-line fundraisers
• Demonstrated track record of fundraising success in the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of six- and seven-figure gifts
• Experience playing a key leadership role in a fundraising campaign
• Facility with employing CRMs and reporting to inform a data-driven approach to moves management.
• Experience engaging and mobilizing groups of diverse stakeholders
• Strength in developing fundraising strategies and experience working directly with the most senior levels of an organization.
• Strong willingness to collaborate in a highly team-based environment; ability to build working relationships up, down, and across a large and diffuse organization.
• Successful track record translating research and program activity into compelling philanthropic objectives.
• The ability to travel frequently in support of AMC’s philanthropic priorities (including weeknights and weekends).
• Valid driver’s license.
AMC welcomes all qualified candidates to apply, and they invite the full participation of all individuals currently underrepresented in the outdoor community.
This is a remote position with preference for the candidate to be based in the Northeast. The salary range for this position is $125,000 - $205,000 and is dependent on a candidate’s permanent location.
To express interest, please submit your cover letter and resume in confidence : https://apptrkr.com/5708085