Mission Advancement Officer

One Mission Society; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

One Mission Society is seeking a Mission Advancement Officer to drive major donor development and expand the OMS donor base across a Western regional footprint. The role emphasizes relationship-building, strategic moves management, and a strong commitment to OMS mission goals.

The position is remote, based in the Western United States (Pacific Northwest preferred), with salary range $80,000–$105,000 and a focus on leadership-level gifts and donor engagement through Salesforce CRM.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred; advanced degree in business, sales or marketing desirable.
• 3-5+ years of confirmable successful fundraising experience with progressively increasing results.
• Verifiable success in asking major donors for leadership-level and major gifts.
• Intuitive, big-picture thinker with internal motivation and donor empathy.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, including proposal development.

Responsibilities

• Identify and cultivate donors from your region and expand the OMS donor base.
• Implement a moves management system for a donor portfolio of 150+ names with major gifts focus.
• Represent the ministry regionally at groups, leaders, and business organizations.
• Set annual goals with the Senior Director of Development and track progress.
• Document donor interactions in Salesforce CRM and report regularly.
• Adhere to OMS code of conduct and stewardship policies.

Skills

Fundraising

Donor relations

Proposal writing

Public speaking

Strategic planning

Time management

Teachable

Confidentiality

Empathy

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree in business

Tools

Salesforce CRM

Job description

Do you want to make a difference in the world?

One Mission Society partners with missionaries, national leaders, and ministry projects across an 86-country footprint. We're seeking a dynamic, proven fundraiser to help fund this worldwide ministry as our next Mission Advancement Officer.

The ideal candidate brings a track record in major donor development and the relational skill to connect authentically with a wide range of donors. Above all, our Mission Advancement Officer cares deeply about helping major donors find meaningful ways to participate in the mission of God around the world through their giving.

This role calls for someone who can engage donors with both a skilled hand and a heart of deep integrity, building lasting relationships that turn generosity into global impact.

This role is a remote position that would be based in the Western region of the United States (preferably in the Pacific Northwest).

Education, Skills, and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree preferred; advanced degree in business, sales or marketing desirable.
• A self-starter with the highest level of personal and professional integrity and quality standards.
• A strong commitment to, and understanding of the mission, goals and values of the ministry.
• Able to be confidential in all donor conversations and engagement activities.
• Desires to be held accountable: welcomes goals that help define success in the assignment.
• 3-5+ years of confirmable successful fundraising experience with progressively increasing results.
• Verifiable success in asking major donors for leadership-level and major gifts.
• Intuitive, big-picture thinker.
• Internally motivated.
• A strong empathy for the goals, values and dreams of the donors.
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills, including demonstrated success in proposal development and presentation.
• Strategic thinker, planner, organized with good time management skills and the ability to multi-task.
• Teachable.
• Disciplined: meets deadlines, able to prioritize between projects, manages assignment within budgets.
• An excitement for "selling" and understands that the donor-ministry partnership is between equal partners.
• Shows resiliency and responds positively even if the answer is "no.".
• Quickly able to understand OMS's ministry concepts and articulate them persuasively.
• Personally generous as a donor

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Identify and cultivate friends from your assigned existing donors, as well as utilizing your personal and professional spheres of influence to expand the OMS donor base in your region.
• Qualify and implement a moves management system of a donor portfolio of at least 150 names (individuals, strategic churches, businesses, etc.) with emphasis on developing major gifts, and utilizing OMS ministry networks to regularly expand your list. Donor lists will be evaluated quarterly with rotating 20% nonresponsive donors off the donor portfolio and adding 20 new potential donors quarterly.
• Represent the ministry regionally, including but not limited to speaking to various groups and individual leaders and business organizations.
• Prepare annual goals, including activities which help to achieve specific fund raising targets, in consultation with the Senior Director of Development.
• Communicate regularly with the Senior Director of Development as to activities, meetings and travel.
• Document all donor interactions and donor engagement activities into Salesforce CRM per instruction of the Senior Director of Development.
• Implement performance standards as assigned by Senior Director of Development to be evaluated every two weeks by the Senior Director of Development for compliance and reporting.
• Written agreement and adherence to code of conduct of OMS and the OMS Stewardship Department.

Other Details:

Location: Remote but based in the Western region of the United States (preferably in the Pacific Northwest).
Salary Range:$80,000-$105,000