Major Gifts Officer

Scion Staffing; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Oregon Food Bank, a leading hunger relief organization, seeks a Major & Leadership Gifts Officer to cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of high-capacity individual donors and philanthropic partners.

Reporting to the Community Philanthropy Manager – Individual Giving, this role focuses on building long-term donor relationships and advancing strategic fundraising initiatives through cross-department collaboration.

Job description

Scion Nonprofit Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a Major & Leadership Gifts Officer on behalf of Oregon Food Bank, one of the nation's leading hunger relief organizations. Oregon Food Bank is dedicated to eliminating hunger and its root causes through equitable community partnerships, advocacy, and philanthropy. The organization mobilizes more than $40 million annually to support its mission and is committed to fostering an inclusive, community-centered culture where diversity, equity, and lived experience are valued.

Position Overview

The Major & Leadership Gifts Officer is responsible for cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding a portfolio of high-capacity individual donors and philanthropic partners. Reporting to the Community Philanthropy Manager – Individual Giving, this role focuses on building long-term donor relationships, advancing strategic fundraising initiatives, collaborating across departments, and helping grow sustainable philanthropic support.

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.

• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:
• To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism.
• In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:
• cross-departmental efforts
• work culture activities and programming
• advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others
• plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB’s vision and mission.
• 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.