Network for Good believes small and local nonprofits have important missions and deserve great software and services to power their fundraising and fuel those missions. We use data, technology, and the power of networks to eliminate the daily fundraising grind that most nonprofit leaders endure. Network for Good provides Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fundraising solutions and education that have delivered over $1.5 billion to more than 125,000 charities since 2001.

Network for Good is seeking entrepreneurial, passionate fundraising professionals to leverage their experience in the nonprofit sector to build regional relationships between foundations, philanthropists, professional associations, consultants and consultancies who want to ensure small nonprofit organizations have the technology and infrastructure to increase their fundraising capacity.

Reporting to the Vice President & Chief Impact Officer, you will occupy a unique business development role that fuses fundraising with direct sales in service to the aforementioned entities. In this capacity, you will help fuel Network for Good’s revenue growth as a socially responsible, Certified B-Corporation. Senior Impact Officers will also be responsible for helping construct and deliver national initiatives designed to help nonprofit organizations increase their fundraising effectiveness and capacity.

Headquartered in Washington DC, Network for Good has already established Regional Impact Offices in San Francisco (serving the West and the Pacific Northwest), Denver (serving the Central Plains and South) and now is expanding its footprint to include the Midwest (based in Chicago, Detroit, or Indianapolis) and the Northeast (based in Boston, New York or Philadelphia). Functionally, Senior Impact Officers will be responsible for creating demonstrable impact for the nonprofits in the geographic area they serve.

As a Senior Impact Officer, you’re primary responsibilities include:

• Creating a pipeline of nonprofit-serving associations, federations, corporate foundations and philanthropies to solicit and close a minimum of $150,000 in earned revenue per quarter through the sale of bundled software packages designed to increase nonprofit fundraising capacity;
• Creating a portfolio of philanthropists and foundations to solicit and close a minimum of $25,000 in contributed revenue to be gifted to small nonprofits through Network for Good’s flagship recoverable grants program;
• Creating a regional presence for Network for Good by participating in, leading and creating workshops in partnership with professional associations to engage a minimum of 250 small nonprofits per quarter, concentrating in underserved and rural communities; and
• Creating relationships with like-minded service federations and/or professional associations to distribute Network for Goods free fundraising content (webinars, eBooks and fundraising tools/templates) to a minimum of 5,000 nonprofit organizations per quarter.

Successful applicants will ideally have three, but no more than ten, years in one of the following positions:

Major Gift Officer. You have successfully engaged, solicited, and closed cash gifts totaling a minimum of $1 million per year from a portfolio high-value donors and prospects. You understand the importance of individual giving to any organization. You know how to connect philanthropic interests with programmatic outcomes, leveraging your own strategy that culminates not only with a gift, but a relationship.

Program Officer. At a private, family, or community foundation with an asset base of at least $25 million, you have managed the grant-making process to guide nonprofit organizations through the application, diligence, and fulfillment phases for a portfolio of organizations seeking funding. You know and empathize with the challenges nonprofits face in sustaining the funded programs

Development Officer. You were a fundraising hire for a small nonprofit organization and successfully raised a minimum of $500,000. You successfully engaged your organization's leadership and board to support fundraising and helped the organization launch an annual giving program, receive its first major gifts, garner support from private foundations, and secure approval and/or funding to purchase fundraising software.

Requirements

• Demonstrable passion for serving the nonprofit sector. You are on a mission.
• Remarkable and memorable public speaking skills. You enjoy “performing.”
• Exemplary listening skills. You seek information to solve problems.
• Adept strategic thinking capacity. You can connect needs and opportunity.
• Comfort with a very large percentage of time spent traveling.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.