Individual Giving Officer

Individual Giving Officer

Location Portland, OR 97211 Date Posted July 28, 2026 Job ID 15124 Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Nonprofit Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for an Individual Giving Officer on behalf of Oregon Food Bank, one of the nation's leading hunger relief organizations. Oregon Food Bank is dedicated to eliminating hunger and its root causes through equitable community partnerships, advocacy, and philanthropy. The organization mobilizes more than $40 million annually to support its mission and is committed to fostering an inclusive, community-centered culture where diversity, equity, and lived experience are valued.

Position Overview

The Individual Giving Officer is responsible for cultivating, stewarding, and growing relationships with individual donors to advance Oregon Food Bank's fundraising goals. Reporting to the Community Philanthropy Manager - Individual Giving, this role focuses on donor outreach, portfolio management, prospect qualification, and building meaningful, long-term relationships that strengthen philanthropic support.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Successfully develop and engage with a broad portfolio of individual donors (giving mid to major-level gifts between $1,000-$10,000) with a focus on cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship, and work to deepen relationships and advance OFB's 10 year vision.

• Discover and qualify donors from mid- ($1,000+) and major-level ($10,000+) cohorts to move to Community Philanthropy Senior Developer - Individual Giving portfolios. Work alongside Community Philanthropy Senior Developer - Individual Giving and Prospect Research & Development colleagues to facilitate smooth transitions to managed portfolios for qualified donors.

• Develop solid understanding of OFB programs and priorities for your strategic engagement of donors and to retain philanthropic partners - making Oregon Food Bank a political home and facilitating donors' political journey while fostering transformational and regenerative relationship development over time.

• Maintain donor records in a detailed and timely fashion in our database to department standards in quantity and quality of information entered in philanthropy systems and technology - Raiser's Edge NXT.

• Collaborate with other departments, organizations and groups to build partnerships to enhance collaborative fundraising activities and opportunities. Assist in brainstorming and creating new methods to raise funds for OFB.

• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:

• To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB's vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the rot causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism.

• In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:

• work culture activities and programming

• cross-departmental efforts

• advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others

• plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB's vision and mission.

• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.

Skills and Experience Required:

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.
• 2-3 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility in donor relationship management, community organizing, or volunteer/client/member services.
• Interacting with a diversity of individuals personably and respectfully to OFB standards.
• Demonstrated ability to use persuasive communication to engage current and future donors to raise funds for OFB through the development of proposals, grants, and advocacy calls to action.
• Ability to generate and personalize phone calls, emails and letters to donors, and respond to donor inquiries in a timely manner for increased communication resulting in greater donor engagement.
• Demonstrated experience with planning and leading effective meetings and/or events for donors.
• Demonstrated knowledge, experience and actions incorporating and initiating development and fundraising activities through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.
• Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.
• Proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office) and donor databases, preferably Raiser's Edge. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools a plus.
• Organizational level skills and experience required for exempt employees include:
• Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.
• Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.
• Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.
• Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.
• Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.
• Experience of successful multicultural immersion working and/or living within OFB's Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.
• Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Association of Fundraising Professionals CFRE

• 40+ hours of: AFP and/or APRA and/or CASE and/or AASP and/or People's Nonprofit Accelerator (formerly WVDO) Certifications (role specific)

• 40+ Hour Leadership Development Certification from Rockwood Leadership Institute (or "like" institution of comparable credibility)

• 40+ Hour DEI Certification (from Oregon Food Bank's Equity Institute, State of Oregon's Sexual Assault Training Institute, YWCA of Columbia-Willamette, Raphael House of Portland or "like" institution of comparable credibility)

• Experience working in a non-profit with an affiliated 501(c)3 and 501(c)4

• Organizational level preferred qualifications of exempt employees include:

• Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics.

• Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.

• Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to the world view and perspectives of others.

• Integration is defined as being able to "code-switch" or move in and out of one's worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion.

• Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.

• Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes.

• Years of successful multicultural immersion either working with and/or living within one or more of OFB's Equity Constituencies at the time of hire. An additional step for at least 10 years above minimum required of successful multicultural immersion working with and/or living within one or more of OFB's Equity Constituencies at the time of hire.

• Multicultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

Compensation & Benefits

• Exempt position
• Annual salary: $62,756 - $70,824 annually, depending on experience
• Oregon Food Bank offers a comprehensive benefits package designed to support employees' health, financial well-being, and work-life balance. Benefits include a choice of Kaiser medical plans (HMO, Dual Choice PPO, and HSA), employer-supported dental coverage, voluntary vision insurance, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, employer-paid life, AD&D, short- and long-term disability insurance, an Employee Assistance Program, travel assistance, identity theft protection, and optional supplemental life insurance for employees and their families.

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