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The Nature Conservancy Director of Development, Global Protect (55573) in Tulsa, Oklahoma
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RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Decisions may have program-wide impact, affect staff in non-program areas, and bind the organization financially or legally.\ Design and lead collaborative, complex, and diversified projects, coordinating the work of other professionals, managing budget, and ensuring accountability.\ Direct or participate in negotiations for complex, high profile or sensitive agreements.\ Ensure compliance with TNC policies and procedures and external (donor/legal/IRS) requirements; be alert to ethical compliance issues.\ Financial responsibility for setting and meeting fundraising objectives, evaluating results, and developing corrective strategies.\ Maintain confidentiality of frequently sensitive and emotionally charged information.\ Maximum opportunity to act independently, resolves complex issues within program area.\ Supervise team members; manage the Global Protect fundraising team.\ Persuasively convey the mission of TNC to diverse groups important to the organization\'s overall prosperity.\ May require frequent travel with short notice and work outside of normal operating hours, including weekends, as needed.\ Work environment involves only infrequent exposure to disagreeable elements and minor physical exertion and/or strain.
WHAT YOU\'LL BRING\ Bachelor\'s degree and 8 years of related experience.\ Experience building and maintaining long-term relationships with constituents such as individual major donors and foundations.\ Experience building and executing fundraising plans for a program or an organization.\ Experience in asking for and closing major or planned gifts of \$100,000 or more.\ Experience in managing and tracking multiple prospects and donors.\ Experience working with fundraising principles and practices.\ Experience, coursework, or other training in current and evolving trends in charitable giving, particularly in the areas of capital campaigns, major gifts, and planned giving.\ DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
Multi-lingual skills and multi-cultural or cross-cultural experience appreciated.\ Ability to design and direct fundraising initiatives, including individualized cultivation, solicitation, and recognition strategies.\ Ability to determine an individual\'s interests, capacity, and potential for helping the Conservancy meet its goals, and act appropriately to tie those interests with the Conservancy\'s work.\ Ability to educate and inform both internal staff and prospective and existing donors about appropriate giving vehicles.\ Demonstrated experience using listening, diplomacy, and tact to build strong relationships and motivate colleagues, donors, and volunteers.\ Experience in prioritizing work for several executives.\ Experience with grant writing for requests from major private foundations.\ Experience working in a large, complex, not-for-profit environment.\ Expert knowledge of complex charitable gift planning.\ Passion for raising money and for identifying new prospective donors (individuals and foundations)\ Proven ability to negotiate complex, high-profile, or sensitive agreements.
WHAT WE BRING\ Since 1951, TNC has been doing work you can believe in. Through grassroots action, we have grown from a small non-profit into one of the most effective and wide-reaching environmental organizations in the world. Thanks to more than 1 million members, over 400 scientists, and the dedicated efforts of our diverse staff and partners, we impact conservation around the world!
TNC offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package including health care benefits, flexible spending accounts, a 401(k) plan with an 8% employer match, parental leave, accrued paid time off, life insurance, disability coverage, employee assistance program, other life and work well-being benefits. Learn more about our benefits o our Culture Tab on nature.org/careers.
We\'re proud to offer a flexible work environment that supports of the health and well-being of the people we employ.
\ SALARY INFORMATION\ The starting pay range for a candidate selected for this position is generally within the range of \$146,000 to \$210,000 for annual base salary.This range only applies to candidates whose country of employment is the USA.