Community Philanthropy Developer, Prospect Research & Management

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: Community Philanthropy Developer - Prospect Research & Management

Job Homebase: 7900 NE 33rd Drive, Portland, OR 97211

Site requirement: Hybrid

Reports To: Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management

Application Guidelines:

A cover letter is required for consideration.

This position is currently hybrid.

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary: You will join 45+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger’s root causes. Together we mobilize $24M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank’s mission while advancing Rooted + Rising: A $50M+ transformational campaign to realize OFB’s 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropy’s true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core. Learn more from our team members daring to imagine and leading to create a more just experience of philanthropy.

As the Community Philanthropy Developer - Prospect Research & Management, you will contribute to the organization’s success by facilitating prospect research and management programs that reach relationship development and resource mobilization goals and objectives of Oregon Food Bank and Community Philanthropy. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management. You will perform duties like complex reporting; data analysis, data systems design, and data entry; donor research; portfolio management, and more. You will consult directly with Community Philanthropy team members to identify and qualify major donor prospects who have propensity and capacity to support OFB. Along with research and analysis, you will help manage major gift donor portfolios in the donor database by providing analysis and recommendations, ensuring database integrity and sound use by the team. This position can perform their duties from anywhere within Oregon & SW Washington and establish a homebase from any of Oregon Food Bank’s facilities in Beaverton, Ontario, Portland, The Dalles, or Tillamook, OR. OFB can provide this position dedicated desk space within an Oregon Food Bank facility, or the role can be performed predominantly from a home office and attend periodically-required visits to OFB facilities. Accommodations can be made and candidates are encouraged to inquire.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

● Support the Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management in the facilitation of prospect research and management programs and systems that effectively track and manage supporters within the Raiser’s Edge NXT and EveryAction databases.

o Supportmoves management, proposals, and qualitative denotations for action types (aligned with Community Philanthropy’s theory of change and the centering of love and equity in our work).

o Maintain compliance with advocacy regulations for 501(c)(3) and affiliated 501(c)(4)s. ● Develop and maintain prospect development policies and procedures in collaboration with Prospect Research & Management colleagues. Assist with training Community Philanthropy staff in prospect development best practices and organizational standards.

● Proactively and independently, plan and execute strategies to identify sources of major gifts ($10,000+) support using creative research techniques and electronic searching methodologies. Develop and execute strategies to ensure that newly identified prospects are presented and assigned to appropriate relationship managers in a timely manner.

● Provide high-level research on individuals, corporations, and foundations using a wide variety of biographical, organizational and financial sources, including online database services, Internet websites, and other external repositories of public information.

● Mine large sets of data to prioritize and segment prospect lists using Raiser’s Edge NXT and EveryAction database, based on the strength of relationship with OFB, financial capacity, giving propensity, and other data points in order to create portfolios that center love and decenter money and to support strategic outreach tactics.

● Compose profiles, biographies, and reports using style, grammar and content appropriate to specific audiences. Distill and communicate key information, which directs engagement and solicitation strategies.

● Remain current with trends in prospect research by attending training sessions, networking with other professionals in the field, participating in professional conferences and subscribing to electronic listservs focusing on prospect research and fundraising issues. Also, become and remain knowledgeable about UB and current events, programs, and academic accomplishments.

● Other related duties as assigned

Skills and Experience Required:

● Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.

● 3 years of experience in database management, prospect research, donor relations, gift development or stewardship, or related field.

● Demonstrated computer skills working with relational databases and spreadsheets. Ability to download and export information between systems.

● Ability to conceptualize and develop proactive prospecting methodologies including data mining, sophisticated constituent database queries, etc.

● Careful attention to detail and commitment to professional ethics.

● Strong organizational skills.

● Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement’s Body of Knowledge and Ethics Statement, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.

● Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office), donor databases (preferably Raiser’s Edge), and/or experience with iWave, LexisNexis, or other prospecting databases. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools a plus!

● Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include: ○ Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.

○ Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.

○ Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.

○ Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work. ○ Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.

○ Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.

○ Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB's Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.

■ Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

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● Organizational level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include:

○ Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics.

○ Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.

■ Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to

the world view and perspectives of others.

■ Integration is defined as being able to “code-switch” or move in and out of one's worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion.

○ Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.

○ Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes.

○ Years of successful multicultural immersion either working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire. An additional step for at least 10 years above minimum required of successful multicultural immersion working with and/or living within one or more of OFB’s Equity Constituencies at the time of hire.

■ Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

The Fine Print:

Work environment:

Work is performed in an office environment while sitting in meetings or at a computer screen for extended periods inside and outside of Oregon Food Bank and will use computers and phones extensively.

May work outside of general working hours of 8:00 – 5:00 p.m., such as evenings and weekends, and occasional travel out of town may occur.

Work may require to lift, move and carry objects from 20 to 40 pounds, such as boxes containing office and other supplies. Crouching, bending, kneeling and reaching when filing. Accommodations may be available upon request.

Background Check:

This position doesn’t require a criminal background check.

Inclement Weather, Service Disruptions and Disaster Response expectations:

OFB is part of the regional disaster response network and, as part of our commitment to our community, we all are expected to report to work as soon as it’s safe to do so and to respond to the disaster, emergency, inclement weather or extended service disruption as needed and as possible. Work and paid designations are described in OFB’s Inclement Weather Guidelines. At all times staff is supported to prioritize their safety and those of their dependants, families and loved ones while in communication and coordination with supervisors.

1. Exempt classification refers to employees who earn a salary rather than an hourly rate for the work they do instead of the number of hours they take to complete the task. Exempt employees are not eligible for overtime pay or minimum wage. They; 1) Supervise two or more full-time employees or four part-time employees regularly; 2) Are responsible for managing at least part of a business; 3) Play an important role in the job status of other employees, including hiring and delegating tasks; or 1) Perform office or non-manual work directly related to the business operations or management of an organization and its customers; and 2) Exercise independent judgment and discretion over important business decisions.