Senior Manager, Campaign & Major Gifts

Job Description
Summary:
The Senior Manager, Campaign &
Major Gifts will play acritical role in the success of Force for Tomorrow, a $21 million comprehensive campaign. This exciting and ambitious endeavor has already surpassed the halfway mark, with a number of six and seven figure gifts to support programming, capital projects and the endowment. The position reports to the Vice President of Development and will be part of a dynamic and hard-working team, including committed staff, enthusiastic Board Chair, engaged Board of Directors, and prominent Honorary Campaign Committee.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Comprehensive Campaign
Manage the $21 million Force for Tomorrow Comprehensive Campaign, which includes programming, capital and endowment support.
Produce and maintain campaign timeline, dashboard and prospect list.
Partner with campaign leadership, CEO, and VP of Development to provide pre-visit support, tour and post visit follow-up for prospective and active donors.
Develop campaign materials, including collateral, website, invitations, etc.
Oversee the campaign committee meetings, with scheduling, agenda creation, minutes and follow up.
Lead major fundraising events, including but not limited to galas, working collaboratively with Special Events team. Responsibilities include budget creation, collateral development, sponsor fulfillment, and programming.
Manage donor agreements and contracts, working closely with the Finance team.
Lead the development of the Annual Report and collaboratively work with Development, Education, Exhibits and Marketing teams.
Proactively identify opportunities to engage donors, including stewardship events and VIP experiences, with timely follow up.
Major Gifts
Create and manage a portfolio of qualified major gifts donors and high-level prospects who have the capacity to make gifts of $5,000 and above.
Design and implement plans to increase major gift contributed revenue, ensuring all fundraising efforts support the broader comprehensive fundraising goals including major, capital and planned giving.
Proactively identify opportunities to engage donors, including stewardship events and VIP experiences, with timely follow up.
Provide major gift reports to track activity, retain existing donors, and increase the average gift size.
Collaboratively work with Development Team to grow pipeline of annual giving support and event sponsorships.
Research effective planned giving programs for implementation.
Support the VP of Development in analyzing trends and forecasting revenue.
Actively participate in the budgeting process.
Represent the Science Center externally in public facing events and support the Development team with special events as assigned.
Participate in board committees and provide support as necessary.
Other duties as assigned.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities at this time.