Major Gifts Officer

Job Summary The Major Gifts Officer (MGO) reports directly to the Senior Vice President for Advancement and serves as a frontline fundraising professional responsible for identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding major donor relationships to advance the mission, strategic vision, and spiritual growth of Arizonia Christian University.

This role builds long-term partnerships with alumni, parents, foundations, and friends of the University.

The ideal candidate combines a proven track record of relational fundraising with a personal commitment to the integration of faith and biblically-based higher education.

This role also requires a comprehensive understanding of and commitment to the unique, conservative Christian mission and vision of ACU to Transform Culture with Truth, and the ability to advance that mission and vision through building relationships and soliciting gifts from current and potential University financial partners.

Typical Duties Portfolio Management: Manage an active portfolio of 120-150 major gift prospects and donors.

Maintain steady movement through the donor lifecycle: identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.

This includes the pursuit of relevant public and private grant opportunities along with planned giving opportunities.

Direct Solicitations: Plan, schedule, and execute face-to-face donor visits and gift proposals, leading to the successful acquisition of individual, corporate, and foundation gifts.

Strategic Collaboration: Partner closely with the Senior VP for Advancement, VP for External Relations, President, and Board of Trustees to build tailored solicitation strategies that align with approved fundraising needs.

Moves Management and Tracking: Accurately and timely document all donor touches, visits, stewardship moves, strategy shifts, pipelines, and pledge agreements within the universitys database CRM (Virtuous CRM).

Stewardship Programming: Work alongside the advancement team to execute custom stewardship plans that communicate the deep spiritual and academic impact of donor gifts on ACU students and our culture.

Maintain confidentiality regarding donor information, University business matters, and sensitive communications.

Team Player: Be a team player with the advancement team, administrative team, faculty and staff.

Support and help with the advancement planned events and communications that are conducted throughout the year.

Engage in Advancement Team Meetings Travel: Regularly travel to meet with donor prospects.

Perform other duties as assigned in support of the Advancement department.

Qualifications: A personal and growing relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, A commitment to the mission and values of Arizona Christian University and agreement with ACUs statement of faith Other Duties and Responsibilities: Completing other duties and tasks with utmost integrity and professionalism, as directed, and not necessarily mentioned in this description, may be asked o...