ABOUT THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY

The Wilderness Society (TWS) is the leading conservation organization working to protect America’s public lands and wild places for the health of communities, wildlife, and climate.  Founded in 1935, and now with more than one million members and supporters, The Wilderness Society has led the efforts to permanently protect 111 million acres of wilderness and to ensure the sound management of America’s public lands. TWS addresses the existential threats of climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and deep inequities accessing the benefits of nature.  TWS is working to achieve four major results: protecting 30 percent of America’s lands and waters by 2030, transitioning off of fossil-fuel development on public lands to well-sited renewable energy, securing equitable access to public lands and their benefits, and building a critical mass of support for conservation of public lands.

ABOUT THE POSITION

The Institutional Giving Manager is part of a three-person team that is responsible for securing financial resources from institutional funders to achieve ambitious organizational revenue goals. Reporting to the Senior Director for Institutional Giving,

they are responsible for managing a portfolio of existing funders, working with the team to identify new potential funding opportunities for TWS, and managing key processes for the team.

This position plays an important role in supporting an inclusive organizational culture that is grounded in trust and accountability to shared goals and outcomes. TWS has made diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic priorities for the organization and the Institutional Giving Manager will integrate these priorities throughout their fundraising work.  Across our team, we aspire to be campaign oriented, nimble, collaborative, innovative, transparent, and supportive of staff – our greatest asset. 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of institutional funders and prospects. Develops meaningful touch points and executes donor engagement plans, tracks deadlines, prepares proposals and reports, keeps donor files and donor database of record (Revolution Online/ ROI) up to date.
• Research new institutional funding opportunities and collaborate with team on developing strategies for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of new prospects.
• Collaborate with TWS’s other fundraisers and program staff, finance and executive teams to advance funder relationships. Prepares talking points, PowerPoint presentations, agendas, and other donor meeting materials.
• Support donor stewardship processes for the Institutional Giving team. This includes working with the Giving and Impact Operations & Outreach Team and President’s Office on special event invitations, updates to key donors, annual report mailings, and acknowledgement letters.
• Coordinate with Giving and Impact Operations & Outreach Team to manage the team’s donor database-related processes, such as revenue budgeting, pipeline reporting, and donor record maintenance.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Experience and Competencies

The ideal candidate will have all or most of the following:

• Minimum five years’ professional experience, including three years in a fundraising setting and minimum two years working with foundation donors.
• Experience writing and editing successful grant proposals, concept papers, letters of inquiry, and reports, and developing budgets and financial reports, for foundations and/or government agencies.
• Excellent writing and editorial skills including ability to understand, interpret, synthesize, and complex programmatic information and present it compellingly to a donor, adhering to donor guidelines and requirements. Ability to compose and edit a variety of other correspondence, tailoring messages and communication style to the audience.
• A working knowledge of ROI (database of record) or other fundraising databases for historical recordkeeping as well as donor cultivation planning and moves management.
• Excellent interpersonal skills required. Ability to communicate and work effectively with internal and external constituents at all levels of authority.
• Proven ability to manage the donor relationship development process from research to grant. Experience with government grantmaking or as a major gifts officer is an asset, as is working on fundraising with board members and/or other volunteers.
• Track record working successfully in teams representing a rich mix of talent, backgrounds, and perspectives. 

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of this position and it is not intended to be an exhaustive list of experience, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position.

The location for this position is Washington, DC and will be a hybrid schedule of work from home and office time.  The salary range for this position is $85,000-$92,000. 

The Wilderness Society offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; sick and vacation leave; a sabbatical program; and a retirement plan.  TWS is an equal opportunity employer and actively works to ensure fair treatment of our employees and constituents across culture, socioeconomic status, race, marital or family situation, gender, age, ethnicity, religious beliefs, physical ability, veteran status or sexual orientation.

As an organization, we aspire to being inclusive in the work that we do, and in the kind of organization we are.  Internally this means working as a team that listens to different points of view, recognizes the contributions of every employee and empowers each employee to bring their whole selves to work every day.  Externally this means ensuring that public lands are inclusive and welcoming, so that our shared wildlands can help people and nature to thrive.  We are committed to equity throughout our work, which we define as our commitment to realizing the promise of our public lands and ensuring that all can share in their universal benefits.

To learn more about our commitment, please see http://wilderness.org/our-commitment-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-wilderness-society