Senior Major Gifts Officer
Human Rights Foundation
Full-time
USD 170k-190k / year
Posted on May 6, 2025
Chaloner has partnered with the Human Rights Foundation on their search for a Senior Major Gifts Officer.
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is searching for a Senior Major Gifts Officer to spearhead the growth of our global donor community. The Senior Major Gifts Officer will be responsible for both stewarding relationships with current donors and building relationships and securing gifts from new potential donors.
HRF is a leading organization advancing human rights around the world and one of the only organizations focused on promoting freedom inside authoritarian regimes. Our work has grown rapidly in recent years in terms of fundraising and programmatic output to respond to global threats to freedom. The Senior Major Gift Officer will play a critical role in continuing this growth to help HRF expand its critical work.
The Senior Major Gift Officer will be a member of and work closely with the growing HRF Development Team to coordinate and prioritize their work.
Responsibilities will include:
- Manage a portfolio of approximately 100 current donors who have given between $10,000 and $100,000 in the past, with the goal of securing renewals and increases.
- Build meaningful relationships with donors, understanding their giving goals, and aligning them with HRF’s mission and priorities.
- Research, build and cultivate current and potential donors to assess affinity for HRF’s work and potential giving level.
- Play a key role in donor engagement events.
- Develop personalized engagement plans and tailor solicitation strategies for each donor.
- Communicate with your portfolio via phone calls, written correspondence and in-person visits to build relationships and keep them updated on HRF’s activities.
- Mine evolving lists of prospects to secure meetings and make appropriate requests for support.
- Conduct outreach to potential donors at conferences and events.
- Secure meetings with current and potential donors.
- Track engagements with donors and prospects in Salesforce.
- Promote sales of VIP tickets to the Oslo Freedom Forum, Oslo Freedom Forum in New York, and other HRF events.
Requirements include:
- Track record of success in soliciting gifts from new and potential donors (preferable six figures and above).
- Track record of increasing smaller (three, four and five) figure gifts into the six-figure range.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-motivated and results driven.
- Collaboration with teammates to achieve mutual success and hit organizational goals.
- Experience managing donor databases with a strong preference for Salesforce experience.
- Strong commitment to HRF’s mission to promote and protect human rights around the world, with a focus on closed societies.
- Substantial travel will be required to perform these duties.
Location: Remote in the continental U.S. with regular travel to HRF’s headquarters in the Empire State Building in New York. Space in NYC office is also available.
Salary Range: $170,000-$190,000
Human Rights Foundation is an equal opportunity employer.