Major Gifts Officer

Working at Moffitt is both a career and a mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer.

As the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center based in Florida, Moffitt employs some of the best and brightest minds from around the world. Join a dedicated team of nearly 11,000 who are shaping the future we envision. Moffitt has been recognized as a Best and Brightest Company to Work For in the Nation and is continually named one of the Tampa Bay Times’ Top Workplaces.

Summary

The Major Gifts Officer (MGO) will play a critical fundraising role in the Individual and Family Giving program, successfully managing their own portfolio of individual donors and prospects. This work will ultimately lead to an increase in the MGO’s year-over-year individual attainment, thereby increasing the collective dollars raised by the Individual and Family Giving Team. The MGO will be responsible for developing and maintaining a strong, multi-year roadmap of solicitations, supported by a robust pipeline, by focusing on effective qualification and cultivation strategies. This will enable accurate financial forecasting of the Foundation’s goals at both mid-level and major gift levels.The Major Gifts Officer will work across the specific disease sites at Moffitt in collaboration with Senior Major Gifts Officers assigned as liaisons to those disease areas. In addition, the MGO will build a broad understanding of disease site priorities and institutional fundraising priorities to support the growth of the grateful patient fundraising program and maximize the overall philanthropic revenue. The MGO will also support the Director and AVP in the development and execution of strategies and accompanying tactics, including portfolio development and the use of advanced donor analytics in advance donor base growth and engagement.

What You'll Do

• Build meaningful donor relationships. Manage an assigned portfolio of major gift prospects and donors, developing individualized strategies that deepen engagement and philanthropic support above and beyond $1M.
• Drive philanthropic growth. Build a robust pipeline, prepare and present major gift solicitations, and consistently move qualified prospects through the fundraising cycle.
• Connect donors to Moffitt's mission. Develop a broad understanding of disease-specific and institutional priorities and help donors identify opportunities that align their passions with Moffitt's greatest needs.
• Partner across Moffitt. Collaborate with physicians, researchers, clinical leaders, Senior Major Gifts Officers and Foundation colleagues to identify and advance philanthropic opportunities.
• Support Moffitt's future. Help build philanthropic support for Moffitt's continued growth and expansion, including priorities connected with Speros and Moffitt's expanding locations and services.
• Deliver exceptional stewardship. Create meaningful engagement experiences, facilitate connections between donors and institutional leaders, and ensure thoughtful, timely follow-up.
• Use data strategically. Monitor portfolio and pipeline activity, leverage donor analytics, and adjust strategies to strengthen donor engagement, forecasting and fundraising outcomes.
• Deliver results. Work closely with Foundation leadership to achieve annual and multi-year fundraising goals and performance measures. 

The Ideal Candidate

You are a strategic fundraiser who knows that major gift philanthropy is about more than securing a contribution. It's about understanding what matters to a donor, earning trust, and connecting that passion to an opportunity capable of making a meaningful difference.

You'll bring demonstrated success managing donor relationships and closing significant gifts, along with the confidence and diplomacy needed to partner with senior leaders, physicians, researchers, prospects and other key stakeholders. You are equally comfortable developing a long-term donor strategy, analyzing your pipeline, preparing a solicitation and engaging with a donor one-on-one.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• Minimum of six (6) years of professional experience working with nonprofit or development-related teams in areas such as fundraising, prospect management, donor relations, gift administration, research, or other revenue-generating activities.
• Experience must include at least four (4) years of frontline fundraising.
• Demonstrated ability to successfully close five- and six-figure gifts.
• Proven success identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting and closing gifts.
• Strong understanding of the full fundraising cycle and experience managing a large, dynamic portfolio of prospects at different stages.
• Excellent planning, goal-setting, written and verbal communication, relationship-building and collaboration skills.
• Experience interacting effectively with senior executives, major gift prospects and other high-level stakeholders.
• Experience with fundraising databases, CRM systems or similar donor-management technology.

Preferred Experience

• Six years of frontline fundraising experience within a healthcare organization or higher education environment.

Experience

Salary Range

$80,974.40 - $123,364.80

Salary ranges posted for this position represent the expected base pay range for the role. Actual compensation may vary based on location and a variety of job-related factors, including experience, skills, education, and internal equity among Team Members in similar positions.

We are committed to maintaining fair and equitable pay practices and regularly review compensation to ensure alignment across our workforce.

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