Donor Relations Specialist

https://www.solventgroupconsulting.com/ltc-job-posting
Devoted to protecting
significant land and scenic areas in northern Michigan, you are a
motivated professional who loves connecting people to a meaningful
cause. You’ll work with our robust, committed membership community
who understands, shares, and helps us achieve our mission, donating
generously and in ways that inspire others to do the same.
You’re creative, analytic,
and authentic, and your passion for connecting people to a cause
they love through giving shines through. Strategy and collaboration
are your superpowers, and you use them to manage donor portfolios
and rally team support to meet fundraising goals.
You’ll be a part of a donor
relations team that’s focused on successful relationship management
and a clear donor focus. In this capacity, you’ll manage and
cultivate relationships with existing major gift prospects and
identify new prospects whose philanthropic interests align with our
goals. Your ability to empathize with people and communicate our
mission drives your success in this role. As a team player who
leads by example, you’ll energize our team, nurture our members,
and invest others in our mission-driven work.
You are a connector in the
truest sense of the word. Leveraging your successful track record
in developing trusted relationships, you’ll nurture a portfolio of
approximately 80 to 150 supporters with expertise and care.

Lead each step of donor
cultivation for current and prospective donors, including
identification, qualification through research,
relationship-building, briefing, request for support, follow-up,
stewardship, and recognition

Develop individual donor
strategies to sustain and upgrade outright and planned gifts

Attend and support Little
Traverse Conservancy-sponsored private events and community-wide
events through effective relationship development

Connect with a wide range of
people in a diversity of ways