Principal and Major Gifts Officer

Principal and Major Gifts Officer

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte

Overview of Role

Are you passionate about using your fundraising skills and expertise in service of Planned Parenthood’s commitment to “care, no matter what”? Do you believe in expanding rights and access for all?

The Principal and Major Gifts Officer is a new high-level role that connects Silicon Valley donors and stakeholders with the country’s largest Planned Parenthood affiliate at a critical time for reproductive health and rights. The right candidate is a seasoned fundraising and non-profit professional ready to create new relationships and stewards current donors, resulting in six- and seven-figure gifts for PPMM. Learn more and apply here.

As part of this team of amazing, mission-driven people, you will:

• Play a central role in advancing PPMM’s principal and major gifts program to successfully identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward principal and major gift ($100,000+) prospects and donors.
• Interact with PPMM staff leads to formulate strategies and “cases for support”
• Prepare senior leadership, including the CEO, for donor meetings and leverage senior leadership for stewarding key donors.
• Develop and meet measurable goals for PPMM’s principal and major gift program in alignment with the goals of the development department and the best practices of Moves Management.
• Plan and implement donor activities, meetings, and events with support from the Events Manager, Vice President of Major Gifts, and Chief Development Officer.
• Represents PPMM with influential public audiences in the region as a senior fundraiser.

We are looking for people with:

• Seven or more years of progressively increasing fundraising experience and have five or more years’ experience in major donor fundraising, including closing five and six-figure+ gifts.
• You are sophisticated and comfortable engaging with C-Suite executives, donors and local philanthropists.
• You have experience giving ‘concierge’ service to donors and prospects, engaging with them as an equal partner in their philanthropic journey.
• You have the soft skills and analytical skills to glean donors’ philanthropic motivations.
• You are comfortable using wealth screening software, database tools and other technologies for data-driven decision making when qualifying prospects.
• You enjoy writing and editing major gifts solicitation proposals, letters, stewardship reports and other fundraising communications in a donor centric manner.
• You think out of the box to find creative ways to prospect, cultivate, solicit and steward Individual donors.
• You practice ethical fundraising, are deeply committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in the fundraising profession, and manage donor relationships with discretion and diplomacy.

Our employees are our most valuable asset. Our competitive, comprehensive benefits to employees and their families, include:

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage options
• Generous vacation, sick, and holiday benefits
• 401K Retirement plan with employer contribution
• Voluntary life/AD&D, accident insurance, critical illness insurance
• Medical & dependent care flexible spending account (FSA) options
• Commuter, mass transit & parking benefits
• Free employee assistance programs, such as UNUM Life Balance, Calm, & Ginger
• Robust training opportunities and continuing medical education options.
• CME Reimbursement + paid time off to attend training for eligible staff

Care. No Matter What.

We are Planned Parenthood Mar Monte (PPMM), the largest Planned Parenthood affiliate in the U.S., providing medical and education services to more than 220,000 people annually at over 30 health center locations in mid-California and northern Nevada.