Institutional Giving Manager

Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy began as a grassroots advocate to turn 85 acres of abandoned waterfront into what is now the world-class Brooklyn Bridge Park. As the Park’s chief programming partner, the Conservancy welcomes more than 130,000 visitors across 500 free and low-cost environmental education, recreation, and arts and culture programs.

The Conservancy is seeking a talented, versatile, mission-driven individual to join our team as a full-time Individual Giving Manager. This position will join a four-member development team and play a key, strategic role in helping it deepen its fundraising efforts. Reporting to the Senior Director of Development, the Individual Giving Manager will be responsible for growing and retaining a portfolio of mid-level and membership donors through targeted stewardship activities and solicitations.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead direct fundraising and stewardship for a portfolio of current individual and membership donors ($1,000 - $10,000); Cultivate existing individual donors and encourage renewal, retention and increased donor support.
• Develop and implement moves management system for mid-level donors to deepen major donor pipeline.
• Collaborate with the Senior Director of Development to reimagine and reinvigorate the existing membership program; spearhead the implementation of annual and campaign fundraising strategies.
• Support senior leadership and Board of Directors in their major donor cultivation and solicitation efforts, including upgrading current donors, stewardship and gratitude events and regular communications
• Develop donor content across different streams (mail, email, etc,) for benefit events, donor appeals, direct mail, online giving, and other fundraising communications

• Prepare and maintain comprehensive donor profiles and donor strategy, in collaboration with the Philanthropy and Database Administrator, including a robust system for ensuring donor follow up.
• Play an active supporting role in donor aspects for fundraising and cultivation events; Assist with event planning as needed
• Use Raiser’s Edge NXT to document donor moves management.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years of development experience with strong preference for direct experience working with individual donors
• Superior written and oral communications skills.
• Fluency in Microsoft Office, Acrobat and Google Suite and experience with Raiser’s Edge preferred.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to develop productive working relationships with multiple stakeholders across the organization.
• Meticulous attention to detail with an ability to produce high quality work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to exercise discretion and judgment with the handling of highly sensitive and confidential information.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends for fundraising events and ‘all hands on deck’ program events.

The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Individuals of color, women, people with disabilities, immigrants, veterans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, and those with lived experiences are strongly encouraged to apply. Job descriptions are wish lists that are rarely completely fulfilled, even by the successful candidate. Often women, trans, non-binary, gender non-conforming and BIPOC candidates are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they meet every one of the qualifications as described in a job description. Don’t hesitate to apply even if you don’t check every box. You can be right for the job even if you’re missing a bullet point or two, and you can have important skills we haven’t thought of that would make you a compelling candidate.