Senior Impact Officer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Network for Good envisions a world where generosity is unleashed, with compelling opportunities to give back at every person’s fingertips. To achieve this vision, Network for Good empowers our corporate partners with the platform and know-how to scale generosity and advance good causes. We have delivered over $1.5 billion to more than 125,000 charities since 2001.


Network for Good is a certified B Corporation using business as a force for good. People who thrive at Network for Good are those who enjoy a team-oriented environment that’s always focused on achieving results and ultimately makes the world a better place. In addition to our collaborative culture, we offer competitive compensation and benefits, including stock options. By working for Network for Good you will not only be rewarded for your personal achievements but you will also have the opportunity to be part of an organization that lives by its motto every day: Do Good. Feel Good. ™

Job Description

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.

The key responsibilities are:
• 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
• 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

Qualifications

• 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 (50%)
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
• Three, but no more than ten, years in one of the following (or similar) positions:

o 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.

o 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

o 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.

Additional Information

To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter that answers the following questions:
1. Why would a nonprofit be slow to adopt technology that helps them (fundraise)?
2. Why do you believe there is such high turnover in the fundraising profession?
3. What is the primary misconception nonprofit boards have about fundraising?


Candidates submitting an application must have legal authorization to work in the United States.

Network for Good is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, marital or parental status, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.