The Vice President of Philanthropy will manage and grow the organization’s principal and major gift fundraising efforts by playing a lead role along with the President and CEO in elevating the individual, corporate, and foundation giving programs in support of the Trust’s comprehensive capital campaign as well as building out its long-term infrastructure for successful fundraising beyond the campaign.
The Vice President of Philanthropy will be an experienced fundraiser who thrives off closing significant gifts and understands how to nurture long-term relationships while leading with a sense of urgency. The Vice President of Philanthropy will work directly with the President and CEO to identify and secure seven (7) and eight (8) figure gifts for the Our Monumental Moment campaign. The successful candidate will have overall responsibility and guide strategy while effectively delegating responsibilities related to pipeline management, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
Responsibilities include:
- Recruitment and closure of the most significant gifts to the campaign.
- Overall operating strategy and organization-wide fundraising.
- Appropriate and best-in-class build-out of a long-range fundraising program that is defined by excellence.
- Manage three (3) Senior Director positions that each oversee external, internal, and special events fundraising functions respectively.
- Working directly with the President and CEO to solicit and secure leadership-level principal gifts for the campaign.
- Managing the leadership portfolio for the campaign.
- Implementing and overseeing the Trust’s overall fundraising strategy.
Ideal Candidate:
- At least 15 years of experience with a successful track record in securing leadership gifts at the seven- and eight-figure levels.
- Experience working on a capital campaign is required.
- A Philanthropic Leader: Expertise and demonstrated success as a principal-level fundraiser with comfortability working with sophisticated philanthropists. The successful candidate will thrive off securing these types of gifts.
- Exceptional capacity to delegate and not get caught up in the weeds while having expert-level organization skills and a commitment to details.
- A passion for making people around them successful. Fundraising success for the Trust will require excellence from the entire organization and, most notably, the development staff. This will require the Vice President to trust the Senior Directors and quickly implement a system that delegates responsibilities accordingly, efficiently, and effectively.
Location: Hybrid (candidate must reside in the DC Metro area).
DRiWaterstone is proud to lead this search on behalf of the Trust for the National Mall.
