[Hiring] Senior Principal, Principal Gifts @American Chemical Society

Role Description

The Senior Principal, Principal Gifts serves as a senior fundraiser with a focus on securing gifts at the $5M+ level. This position aligns organizational strengths and donor passions in ways that ignite transformational philanthropy, helping donors achieve their philanthropic goals while advancing the ACS vision to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Designed to be entrepreneurial and collaborative, this role works with leadership, volunteers, and staff across the organization to create and implement personalized donor strategies that lead to long-term partnerships and deep impact investment.

Senior Principals engage with ACS Inc. and ACS CAN board members, members of the ACS Executive Team and other ACS mission staff and are expected to work with these high-level stakeholders to:

• Identify new macro-level prospects
• Deepen donor engagement
• Facilitate successful macro-level solicitations

In addition, Senior Principals work with assigned department leaders to:

• Develop, expand, and refine cases for support
• Create supporting materials and strategy documents for use by the Principal and Foundation Relations Teams
• Assist other fundraisers in the field

All Senior Principals are expected to understand and execute upon all phases of the ACS All in Against Cancer Campaign and special initiatives as requested by the CEO, CDO and other ACS senior leaders.

This is a Remote role based anywhere in the United States

Qualifications

• Minimum Degree Required: Bachelor's Degree
• Preferred Degree: Master's Degree
• Certificate(s) or License(s): Preferred CFRE
• Years of experience: At least 10 years of professional fundraising experience, with a proven track record in successfully closing 7 and 8-figure gifts.

Requirements

• Manage a portfolio of 15-20 high-net-worth individuals and private foundations, and select corporations to qualify, cultivate, solicit, close, and steward principal gifts of $5M+
• Partner across ACS leadership and enterprise teams to stay aligned on mission priorities and emerging opportunities
• Assist in the development of principal giving materials and resources, including cases for support, funding proposals, and stewardship strategies
• Engage senior leadership, national board members and key volunteers to strengthen donor relationships
• Utilize donor management systems (e.g. Salesforce) to track, measure, and analyze performance against KPIs

Benefits

• Generous paid time off policy
• Medical and dental benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Wellness programs
• Professional development programs to enhance staff skills

Further details on our benefits can be found on our careers site at: jobs.cancer.org/benefits .

Company Description

At the American Cancer Society, we're working to end cancer as we know it, for everyone. Our employees and 1.3 million volunteers are raising the bar every single day. We are a culture comprised of diverse backgrounds and experience, to better serve our communities.

The people who work at the American Cancer Society focus their diverse talents on our lifesaving mission. It is a calling. And the people who answer it are fulfilled.