Development Officer

Company: Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services
Location: Fort Worth
Posted on: August 8, 2022

Job Description:

Description:
We are committed to supporting at risk children and families providing them with tools and resources to help prevent children from experiencing child abuse, neglect and abandonment. We are a Christian agency that believes in living our mission, we provide Christ-centered care and support to children and families in need.

In response to this community-wide challenge, Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services (PCHAS), provides 14 programs and services in 28 locations, in Missouri, Texas, and Louisiana, which provide children with permanent homes and adults with increased self-sufficiency. This is accomplished by the agency's commitment to The PCHAS Way which inspires the agency to be strength-focused, family-centered, and goal driven with every client.

Benefits of serving children and families in need through PCHAS include competitive salaries, flex work schedules, paid time off, medical, dental and vision insurance options, voluntary life insurance options, paid holidays, and a very generous retirement plan (after one year of service and working 1,000 hours the agency matches an employee 200% up to a 3% retirement contribution).

Status: Exempt

Working Conditions: A home office or PCHAS office environment while others occur in a donor's home or place of business. Travel is required to meet with the position's direct supervisor (Director of Development), the Senior Vice President of Development, to attend development staff planning retreats, and to meet with donors and church-related partners. Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement Plan, Life Insurance, paid leave, Vacation time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays (10).

Position Summary: This position is responsible for maximizing philanthropic support from donors who live in their assigned region. This position reports to the Director of Development. This position does not supervise anyone at this time.

Essential Job Functions
Maximizes philanthropic support from individual major donors, churches, and corporate donors in support of the agency's annual operating needs.
Records all actions in the database system.
Seeks outright and planned gifts for approved capital maintenance projects, capital campaigns, endowments, and in-kind campaigns.
Maximizes gifts by effectively cultivating and soliciting gifts in person from churches, church-related groups, and service organizations through effective cultivation and solicitation
Effectively hosts an annual fundraising luncheon.
Effectively recruits and trains Ambassadors, volunteers who serve as PCHAS representatives in their home churches and service organizations.
Meets or exceeds annual fundraising goals for one's assigned region. Monitors progress towards stated goals using the weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual gift reports prepared by central staff in Austin.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements:
A college degree in management, marketing, or a field compatible with the general skills required to accomplish the tasks of the position is strongly preferred.
Demonstrated 1-3 years of work experience and documented success in the areas of major gifts, planned gifts, and special events is strongly preferred.
Certification as a professional fund-raiser is desirable, but not required.
Current knowledge of or excellent aptitude for learning and implementing major gift strategies.
Flexibility in interpersonal style in order to accommodate working with various constituencies.
Other Requirements
Must hold a valid driver's license, have and maintain a risk-free driving record. Must be willing to undergo initial and periodic child abuse/neglect, criminal history, sexual offender, and child care/elder care disqualification list screenings . As requested, must submit fingerprints for review by the state of your employment and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Must undergo a pre-employment drug screen and a pre-employment physical with the results showing no evidence of communicable disease.

Christian Commitment
Presbyterian Children's Homes and Services is a faith-based Christian organization. We provide Christ-centered care and support to children and families in need. We strive to serve like Jesus. We meet our clients where they are and treat them with respect. We focus on our clients' strengths rather than their problems. And we encourage our clients to focus on their future rather than their past. When we do this well, we help our clients find hope and know the love of God.

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