Donor Engagement Officer

Core responsibilities:

• Develop, manage, and engage a portfolio of approximately 150 mid, major, foundation, and corporate donors
• Write meaningful and donor-centered content, including appeals, grant proposals, impact and grant reports, cases for support, giving opportunities, correspondence, presentations, and other high-touch outreach
• Manage the grants process, tracking system, and calendar; write and edit foundation grants and reports; research new funding opportunities
• Keep donors up to date and engaged through face-to-face visits, phone calls, mail, and email; ensure timely and accurate database recording of all communications

This role advances ARC's mission to protect animals through engaging, retaining, upgrading, and acquiring leadership donors, helping to expand efforts to serve more communities, reach more unhelped animals, and inspire more people into compassionate action.

Required skills and qualifications:

• At least two years of experience as a frontline fundraiser with demonstrated experience in relationship-building, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship
• Top-notch relationship-building skills, including ability to listen well, leverage emotional intelligence, and utilize a donor-centric approach
• Top-notch verbal and written communication skills with ability to effectively collect, analyze, organize, distill, and present information
• Experience with donor CRMs; experience with or willingness to learn DonorPerfect and DonorSearch
• Passion for animal protection and fundraising

Benefits include competitive vacation time and sick leave, 11 paid holidays, a non-taxable ICHRA health insurance reimbursement plan, and a taxable pet-sitting reimbursement plan.

Animal Rescue Corps was founded in 2010 with the mission to end animal suffering through direct and compassionate action, and to inspire the highest ethical standards of humanity towards animals. They conduct emergency rescues, offer interventions for at-need animals, and raise public awareness of animal suffering.