Strategic Giving Officer, NYC Green Fund

POSITION SUMMARY

The Strategic Giving Officer, NYC Green Fund will join a 16-person Marketing & Development team, raising approximately $15 million annually from individual donors, foundations and institutions, corporate sponsors, and government to support our free programs in New York City parks. The Officer will identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of individual, corporate, and foundation donors to advance the goal of raising at least $5 million annually for the NYC Green Fund, a regranting program addressing equity in parks and open spaces. The role will manage donors; develop compelling proposals and presentations; collaboratively organize and execute cultivation and stewardship events; and contribute to strategy development to increase revenue, among other responsibilities. The Strategic Giving Officer will report to the Director of Institutional Giving & Special Campaigns. The successful candidate will be highly collaborative, working with fundraisers, program, administrative, and management staff across the organization. This is a hybrid role with time divided between office, working from home, fundraising events, in-person client meetings, and site visits in parks.

COMPENSATION: $80,000 - $90,000

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead efforts to identify and research new sources of individual, corporate, and foundation support for the NYC Green Fund, especially those with potential for major gifts;
• Develop cultivation and solicitation strategies to win new gifts and increase renewal donations and execute those strategies;
• Design a calendar of stewardship opportunities to engage donors more deeply with the NYC Green Fund’s work;
• Develop compelling proposals and recognition/benefits packages for  donors;
• Collaborate alongside the Director with individual, corporate, and foundation fundraising departments to advance and achieve the above responsibilities;
• Manage a growing $3 million portfolio of donors in collaboration with the Director of Institutional Giving & Special Campaigns.
• Work with program staff to develop reports on program progress for donors, including both written and oral reporting.
• Work with finance staff to fulfill requests from donors, such as budgets.
• Manage donor and sponsorship recognition deliverables as needed.
• Represent City Parks Foundation and advance its fundraising interests at networking events, donor cultivation activities, site visits, and similar.
• Conduct and facilitate timely and accurate donor records management through direct recordkeeping, as well as clear and prompt communication with support staff.

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's degree and 6 or more years of progressive responsibility in frontline fundraising capacities.
• Proven history raising new gifts from a mix of foundation, individual, and corporate donors.
• Experience with individual and corporate giving preferred.
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to collaborate and work effectively with a diverse group of staff and board members; 
• Ability to network effectively and establish long-term relationships with donors and be comfortable with soliciting donations; 
• Excellent research, organizational, editing, proofreading and oral and written communications skills;
• Ability to cultivate and steward relationships with donors and prospects;
• Self-starter with demonstrated ability to work on multiple projects and consistently meet deadlines;
• Highly organized and detail oriented;
• Ability to write/edit for a variety of formats and tailor messages to different audiences;
• Experience working with Google apps and Salesforce preferred, but not required;
• Experience with or a demonstrated passion for parks, environment, and/or similar issue areas preferred;
• Strong work ethic, enthusiasm, creativity, flexibility, and patience.

ABOUT CITY PARKS FOUNDATION

At City Parks Foundation (CPF), we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming New York City parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through arts, environmental education, sports, and community building programs for all New Yorkers. Our ethos is simple: we believe thriving parks mean thriving communities.

Community engagement includes Partnerships for Parks, a public-private program of City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks, which supports and champions a growing network of community leaders who care and advocate for the transformation of our neighborhood parks and the Parks and Open Space Partners-NYC coalition of conservancies and alliances. We also administer the NYC Green Fund, a regranting program for parks and open space nonprofits and grassroots organizations.

We produce SummerStage, the iconic free, outdoor performing arts festival in NYC, presenting world-class artists from across the globe and our own neighborhoods on our mainstage in Central Park and in local parks in all five boroughs, and our Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre and roving PuppetMobile present marionette puppet theater throughout New York City.

We connect youngsters to nature in the urban environment through progressive, experiential teaching. Using parks as classrooms, we provide learning experiences and hands-on activities in urban forests, coastal areas, and gardens.

Free golf, tennis, track & field, soccer, and fitness programs bring high-quality instruction and equipment into areas where few organized athletic opportunities exist. We offer leveled training, year-round scholarship coaching, and special pro events.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. City Parks Foundation does not offer visa sponsorship.