Gift Planning Officer

Bowdoin College; Portland (ME); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Paid holidays

Parental leave

Gym access

Job summary

Bowdoin College seeks a Gift Planning Officer to advance the college’s fundraising program through identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of donors. You will work with the gift planning team and report to the Director of Gift Planning to maximize annual, capital, and planned gifts.

You will establish long-term donor relationships, contribute to marketing and communications, and support events and meetings.

Qualifications

• Identifying and cultivating donors for annual, capital, and planned gifts.
• Soliciting gifts and stewarding donor relationships.
• Collaborating with gift planning and communications teams on marketing plans.

Responsibilities

• Initiates and executes development strategies for alumni, parents, and friends to secure support through gift plans.
• Develops and manages a personal caseload of approximately 120 prospects; travels to engage donors.
• Collaborates on annual strategic marketing and stewardship plan for Bowdoin Pines Society.
• Develops expertise in complex planned gifts and advises donors and advisers.

Skills

Fundraising

Donor relations

Strategic planning

Job description

The Gift Planning Officer will report to the Director of Gift Planning and work closely with the gift planning team on all aspects of the gift planning program. Responsibilities include: identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of prospective and existing donors, maximizing their annual, capital and planned gifts to the college; establishing long‑term relationships with donors; marketing and communications; event and meeting planning; internal and external administrative duties; working in collaboration with other offices of development and relationship managers to meet Bowdoin’s fundraising objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Initiates and executes development strategies for alumni, parents, and friends to secure support through comprehensive gift plans including, but not limited to, gifts of: bequests and beneficiary designations; life‑income vehicles; real estate; personal property; life insurance; closely held stock; gifts-in‑kind; as well as outright gifts of cash and stock.
• As a frontline fundraiser, develops, solicits, and stewards a personal caseload of approximately 120 prospects, and establishes and maintains long‑term donor relationships with the College. Frequent travel to engage prospective and current donors in their comprehensive support of the College through annual, capital, and planned gifts.
• Collaborates with the gift planning and communications teams in an annual strategic marketing and stewardship plan for the purposes of educating constituents about gift planning and growing membership in the Bowdoin Pines Society.
• Develops and maintains technical expertise and knowledge of complex planned gifts and applies this expertise with donors and their advisers.

BENEFITS AND PERKS

• A variety of health insurance plans (Medical, Vision, Dental)
• Generous Retirement Plan – 401(a) and 403(b)
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per calendar year, 12 days of personal/sick time
• Paid Holidays and Special Days Off: https://www.bowdoin.edu/hr/our-workplace/college-holidays-and-special-days-off.html
• Paid Parental Leave (Available after one year of service)
• Household access to many of the College’s facilities including the gym and pool