Major and Planned Gifts Officer
Website Brooklyn College Foundation
The Brooklyn College Foundation has an unconditional commitment to life-changing, distinctive, and affordable education for students from all backgrounds at Brooklyn College. Through a range of initiatives, the foundation secures, manages, and distributes philanthropic resources that enable student success.
Brooklyn College provides an excellent, affordable, and transformative education to students who reflect the great diversity of its vibrant borough and country. Brooklyn College has a special commitment to educating immigrants and first-generation college students from the city and state. Through outstanding research and academic programs, the College educates leaders who think critically and creatively to make positive change in the world.
Brooklyn College Foundation (The Foundation, BCF), the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that supports Brooklyn College, is at a pivotal moment in its history, and seeks a dynamic and experienced Major and Planned Gifts Officer (MPGO) who will play a key part in campaign and fundraising initiatives. The Foundation seeks to expand philanthropic sources of support, focused on the growth of major and planned gifts.
Brooklyn College Foundation seeks an entrepreneurial and proactive MPGO to manage a portfolio of 175 to 200 major and planned gift prospects and the planned giving program at Brooklyn College. The candidate will identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major and planned gift donors and prospects, and must be able to represent Brooklyn College enthusiastically and accurately to a variety of constituents including board members, major donors, prospects, and other friends of the College.
The successful candidate works collaboratively with other Institutional Advancement and Brooklyn College staff members, and in support of board members, to cultivate and solicit donors for college-wide priorities. The MPGO monitors all prospect contacts to ensure positive and purposeful prospect and donor relations and recommends and assists with programming involving the President, Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Managing Director, Campaign and Major Gifts, senior Brooklyn College staff members, and board members.
The MPGO will report to the Managing Director, Campaign and Leadership Gifts, Emily Moqtaderi. The candidate will support Brooklyn College’s capital campaign, working closely with campaign leadership and Brooklyn College senior staff to raise campaign gifts and help to achieve a successful campaign.
