Director, Donor Relations

5 days ago

Boston, United States The Greater Boston Food Full time
GBFB Overview
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Through the compassion and commitment of our supporters, staff, partners and volunteers, The Greater Boston Food Bank (GBFB) takes a bold, innovative and multi-pronged approach to achieve our mission to end hunger here. GBFB is the largest hunger-relief organization in New England and among the largest food banks in the country. We are committed to increasing our food distribution to provide three meals a day to every person in need in Eastern Massachusetts while supporting healthy lives and healthy communities. Our progress toward this goal is documented by town on our interactive map.
The Greater Boston Food Bank is a member of Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.
Through compassion and action, together we can create a hunger free Eastern Massachusetts.
GBFB Team Members will support the Mission to End Hunger Here. They will live our Team Member Values of Team Member Wellbeing, Teamwork, Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Respect, Trust and Our Eastern Massachusetts Community.
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Job Title: Director, Donor Relations

Reports to: Vice President, Philanthropic Partnerships


Position Summary

The Director of Donor Relations is responsible for providing leadership and a strategic vision for strengthening donor relationships through comprehensive engagement, stewardship and recognition programs. The director develops systems and processes to execute a foundational program for major donors that includes donor acknowledgements, annual and endowment fund reporting and donor-centric stewardship and recognition opportunities across multiple communications and event platforms. In partnership with gift officers and other colleagues, the director also develops and executes donor-centric custom stewardship and recognition strategies for The Greater Boston Food Bank’s most generous donors.


Role & Responsibilities

  • Develops a strategic donor relations roadmap that emphasizes meaningful interactions with prospective and current donors before, during and after completion of the gift.
  • Develops and manages a multi-year donor engagement plan to identify and deliver coordinated and differentiated communications to donors at all levels of giving.
  • Creates and manages a donor acknowledgement system including thank you letters, fund reporting, and donor-centric stewardship and recognition opportunities, including recognition societies for leadership and legacy giving.
  • Works with fundraisers and members of the Executive and Senior Leadership Teams to create and facilitate strategic and individualized stewardship plans to ensure that leading donors feel engaged and recognized, understand the impact of their gifts, and feel that they are helping GBFB successfully reach its goals. This involves active and ongoing engagement of partners and high-level strategic thinking as well as the ongoing evaluation of stewardship processes and the development of best practices for top donor stewardship and recognition.
  • Facilitates high-touch visits to GBFB, bespoke stewardship reporting, procuring donor gifts and, in partnership with the Director of Special Events and gift officers, planning high-touch events.
  • Partners with the Director of Communications to produce written narrative reports, financial fund reports and other bespoke communications for top donors based on their preferences and gift designations.
  • Collaborates with the Director of Special Events on the execution of signature fundraising events, including with staffing support.
  • Works in partnership with corporate and foundation relations (CFR) officers to ensure timely stewardship of gifts and sponsorships and to help facilitate site visits from CFR donors.
  • Partners with the Senior Manager of Advancement Services to ensure donor intent is being met in the expenditure of funds.
  • Develops and assesses policies and procedures across GBFB that are essential for a comprehensive donor relations program. Evaluates stewardship processes for major gifts and develops best practices for top donor stewardship and recognition.
  • Creates a quantitative and qualitative measurement system to evaluate the effectiveness and success of all stewardship, donor relations and recognition programs in alignment with fundraising managers, direct marketing, and communications to ensure uniform messaging.
  • Serves as an expert resource to benchmark and institutionalize comprehensive, integrated donor relations and stewardship best practices to support fundraising goals and initiatives.

Skills & Qualifications


  • Bachelor’s degree required; graduate degree preferred.
  • Minimum of 10 years of related experience in fundraising, donor relations, communications, or a related field.
  • Preference given to candidates with experience in nonprofit stewardship activities.
  • Experience managing and supervising professional staff, interns or leadership volunteers is preferred.
  • Well-honed writing, editing, research and analytical skills required.
  • Knowledge of, and interest in staying current in, the principles and techniques relevant to donor-centric major gift fundraising.
  • Must possess strong interpersonal skills, high Emotional Intelligence and superb first-in-class customer service and communications skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, CRM databases (Salesforce proficiency a plus), and project management collaboration tools.
  • Proven success in the planning, organizing, and executing projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
  • Superlative diplomatic and communication skills, including an ability to work and communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of constituents (individual donors, business leaders, public figures, and staff), within a broad range of cultural environments.
  • Ability to build and manage relationships with a variety of constituents across all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to anticipate unexpected issues and needs and to react quickly, calmly and confidently so as to instill trust and confidence.
  • Ability to work and communicate effectively with a broad spectrum of colleagues, within an environment that values diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines. Capability to work independently and collaboratively with moderate supervision.
  • Demonstrates the required digital competencies that result in the effective usage of the full range of digital technologies at GBFB.
  • Genuine appreciation of GBFB’s mission and the ability to communicate it.
  • Ability and willingness to travel within Massachusetts.


Physical Demands

  • Ability to work in an office environment.
  • Ability to sit for up to 3 hours at a time.
  • Ability to lift up to 25 lbs with or without assistance.

Work Environment

  • This role follows a hybrid schedule working in accordance with GBFB’s hybrid work policy. Our in-office time is used primarily for team meetings and formal and informal collaboration necessary to foster and support a positive work culture. This schedule is subject to change based on the organization’s mission to end hunger.
  • The job is performed indoors in a traditional office setting.
  • Special events may take place in evening/weekend hours.


Travel Required – Yes


Hybrid


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