Director, Philanthropy (Estate and Gift Planning )

Love animals? Want to spend your day surrounded by wagging tails and soft purrs? Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV), a privately funded, 501(c)(3) non-profit, has been serving people and pets in Silicon Valley since 1929. HSSV is a leader in animal welfare through our lifesaving efforts, community programs, and the many ways we are working to move the animal welfare industry forward. Our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people. We are a passionate, high-performing team who believes that collaboration is key to our success. Our best work is achieved by leveraging each other’s strengths and creating opportunities for professional growth. Join a team that focuses on our key values of kindness, courage, and impact!

Key Responsibilities

• Lead as a strategic partner and implementation driver focused on estate and gift planning (“gift planning”) with other Philanthropy fundraisers; helping secure new, recurring, and upleveled gifts. - Develop and execute strategies to continuously identify new gift planning prospects and increase stewardship of existing gift planning supporters across the HSSV donor portfolios. - Manage a portfolio of gift planning donors and prospects through all stages of the gift cycle. Nurture donor portfolio to ensure everyone receives a touch point (i.e., phone call, email, letter, visit) on a reoccurring basis. - Drive ongoing stewardship to donors so that gift planning commitments remain in place and maximize giving potential over time as well as aligned with the donor’s passions and financial capacity. - Lead the administration of the gift planning program including: the acknowledgement process, ongoing stewardship and donor engagement for the 1929 Society donors, reporting, ongoing monitoring, and reporting on receipt of planned gifts. - Translate HSSV’s vision and strategic priorities into articulate and creative ways to increase gift planning opportunities; articulate the need for support so that individuals "buy in" to the vision, mission, and goals of HSSV and with sufficient effectiveness to secure planned and complex asset gifts and/or blended gifts (i.e., a combination of annual, outright, revocable and irrevocable deferred gifts). - Provide training for blended and planned gift fundraising to further the fundraising and donor engagement goals for HSSV. - Partner with others in the design and implementation of gift planning marketing and communications. - Leverage metrics to continuously identify and cultivate new prospects and maintain donor database with interactions, opportunities, plans, and outcomes to produce comprehensive understanding of giving opportunities. - Enable HSSV to produce successful donor engagement events by supporting the execution of the events. - Other job duties may be assigned as needed. Requirements