Major & Leadership Gifts Officer

Major & Leadership Gifts Officer

Location Portland, OR 97211 Date Posted July 28, 2026 Job ID 15123 Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Nonprofit Staffing has been engaged to conduct a search for a Major & Leadership Gifts 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 Major & Leadership Gifts Officer is responsible for cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding a portfolio of high-capacity individual donors and philanthropic partners. Reporting to the Community Philanthropy Manager - Individual Giving, this role focuses on building long-term donor relationships, advancing strategic fundraising initiatives, collaborating across departments, and helping grow sustainable philanthropic support.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Successfully engage, cultivate, solicit, and steward a portfolio of 150 complex individual donor relationships with major, leadership, and principal gift capacity (giving capacity of $25,000 to $1,000,000+) to deepen relationships while utilizing equity-driven messaging that centers our clients, identifies systemic oppression as hunger's root cause, and furthers Oregon Food Bank and Community Philanthropy's annual goals and priorities.

• Strategically engage and retain philanthropic partners to make Oregon Food Bank a political home and facilitate donors' political journey, increase the average donation amount, and help to foster transformational and regenerative relationship development over time.

• Develop and implement an annual plan to manage the portfolio, designing and successfully implementing tailored cultivation, engagement, solicitation and stewardship activities for all donors in the portfolio.

• Develop a deep understanding of OFB programs and maintain working knowledge of organizational priorities and funding opportunities for donors.

• Utilize principles of Moves Management and detail donor interactions and appropriate notes in The Raiser's Edge as set forth by OFB.

• Research and plan strategies and communications that involve cross-departmental collaboration and planning in order to move these relationships forward.

• Consult with the OFB Network regarding major gifts toward annual priorities as requested and appropriate.

• Work in close collaboration with the Community Philanthropy leadership as requested to develop long-range program planning.

• 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 root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism.

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

• cross-departmental efforts

• work culture activities and programming

• 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.
• 3-4 years success in nonprofit fundraising with progressive responsibility in relationship development and effectiveness in major, leadership, and/or principal gifts fundraising with individual supporters.
• Ability and willingness to ask for financial support from individuals. Skilled at writing proposals and reports, preparing and delivering presentations and creating donor materials that may contain technical information.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with high degree of emotional intelligence, possessing cultural agility and ability to work effectively with diverse groups of individuals and communities.
• 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 is 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with institutions and relationship-building with decision-makers in institutions that function as individual donor giving vehicles and are guided more by individual decision-making than is customary in traditional foundations (e.g. instead of institutions with large professional staff guided by RFPs and grant-making cycles).

• 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: $71,993-$81,250, 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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