About Harvest Hope Food Bank

Embark on a fulfilling journey at Harvest Hope Food Bank, where your talents play a vital role in our mission to end hunger. As the largest hunger-relief organization in South Carolina, serving 20 counties, we annually distribute 30 million pounds of food across the Midlands, Pee Dee, and Upstate regions. Our dynamic nonprofit values innovation, collaboration, and diversity, offering a uniquely rewarding experience for employees dedicated to making a meaningful difference in their communities. Join our dedicated team in building a hunger-free tomorrow through active engagement with nearly 400 partner agencies. Together, we strive to address food insecurity and positively impact lives across the state.

Logistics & Work Environment:

This full-time position at our Pee Dee (Florence) Branch operates primarily in an office setting within the branch, as well as being in the community. This position may require traveling during the day and responding to organizational needs outside of normal working hours.

The hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm , totaling 37.5 hours per week.

A Day in the Life:

The Major Gifts Manager is responsible for managing a major gift portfolio to retain and grow donor relationships. Key duties include personal meetings, tours, engagement events, and other cultivation methods. This role focuses on increasing donors' knowledge, involvement, and financial support. The Manager will work towards annual revenue targets through an assigned donor portfolio, including unrestricted, restricted, and capital projects, and will promote planned giving opportunities.

• Manages a portfolio of up to 125 individual donors.
• Qualifies identified prospective and current donors.
• Creates individual goals for each person in their portfolio based on the donor's history of giving and the gift officer's knowledge of the donor's giving potential.
• Creates a plan with a timeline for each donor in their portfolio that is based on principles of donor-driven relationship building.
• Executes individual donor plans such that individuals in the portfolio are retained and/or upgraded in the annual giving.
• Creates offers, proposals, and asks that will provide opportunities for donor retention and upgrade based on personal interests and passion for specific aspects of the mission.
• Works with Director of Development and Agency Relations to create reports as required to accurately reflect portfolio activity and performance.
• Meets established fundraising goals to support organizational needs.
• Performs ongoing statistical analysis and revenue benchmarking to evaluate the overall growth and performance in focus area.
• Engages portfolio and non-portfolio donors in conversations regarding planned giving when appropriate.
• Actively manages the day-to-day relationships with donors and prospects through various activities including meetings, phone calls, letters, reports, emails, timely responses to donor inquiries and acknowledgements of gifts.
• Log contact reports to the donor database(s).
• Passionately represents Harvest Hope Food Bank's mission, programs, and message with stakeholders and actively networks within the community to activate support behind our mission.
• Performs other major donor/development activities as may be required (i.e., tours, public speaking, or spokesperson activities).
• Serves as a community ambassador/spokesperson as needed.
• Will have a fund development cash metric established by Director of Philanthropy.

To Qualify for this Position, you must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Communications, Business Administration, or related study.
• Three or more years of experience working in nonprofit development or other related field.
• Demonstrated experience in cultivating and soliciting prospects capable of five and six-figure gifts.
• Self-starter, strong organizational skills, and attention to detail.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
• Excellent communications, interpersonal and customer service skills; comfortable with public speaking.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Must be able to clearly articulate HHFB's mission.
• Ability to relate effectively and professionally with other staff, volunteers, agency representatives and the public.

Thrive

We offer a competitive annual salary range between $50,000 - 55,000, equal with experience and qualifications.

SOME OF THE VAST REWARDS OF WORKING HERE

As we work to eliminate hunger throughout, we state, we also work to care for our teams' professional and personal growth and well-being.

• Full support and career development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise and maximize your potential along your career journey.
• A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates empower each other.
• Generous Total Rewards Plan - comprising health, finance, and wealth work/life balance.
• 13 Paid Holidays
• Paid Annual Leave - the longer you work here, the more you earn.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the tasks outlined in this job description.

Harvest Hope Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. This description provides information regarding the essential functions of the designated job. It should not be interpreted to describe all the duties or limit the assignments given. This position description does not constitute an employment agreement or contract.