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Why SOS Illinois?

At SOS Illinois we are committed to keeping brothers and sisters in foster care together by providing safe, stable, and loving homes. We do this by offering an innovative approach to traditional foster care. Our model of care provides a private, single-family home, access to a community center, and support from professionally trained Foster Parents and staff. With this, the children we serve benefit from the stability of remaining with their siblings as well as the support of neighboring SOS Illinois Foster Parents and the entire community.

Work for an impactful organization with a purpose

Corporate culture that supports diversity, equity, and inclusion

Hybrid/flexible work options to help balance work and life

PTO (paid time off in the form of personal days, sick time, vacation days, and paid company holidays

Bonus Plan for Child Welfare Specialists

Employee Referral Bonuses

The Role:

The Individual Giving Manager is responsible for directing SOS Childrens Villages Illinois (SOS Illinois) individual giving program, with a personal portfolio focused on donors up to \$10K level. Responsibilities of this role include planning individual giving campaigns, serving as writer and communications strategist for individual donor-facing communications, supporting donor events with the advancement team, and supporting overall department operations to ensure effective use of data in driving individual giving strategy.

Responsibilities:

• Builds and manages a personal portfolio of 75-100 donors and prospects qualified to make individual gifts to support SOS Illinois annual and long-term needs, including researching potential new donors and best outreach strategies for engagement.
• Creates and implement a customized individual giving growth plan and program for SOS Illinois to include direct mail, digital giving, and other individual donor pipeline building activities with a goal of creating a robust pool of individual donor prospects.
• Develops and implements comprehensive fundraising strategies to increase the organizations philanthropic support from individuals through innovative ideas, effective implementation, and analysis of impact; i.e.,SOS IllinoisDream Maker fund program.
• Sources new donors and cultivates authentic and genuine relationships with them to allow them to accomplish their philanthropic goals through a best-in-class donor relations experience with SOS Illinois
• Assesses potential donors for value alignment with SOS Illinois, researching and developing cultivation strategies.
• Creates specific plans, strategies and tactics for donor acquisition, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship throughout the year along with the Chief Advancement Officer.
• Acts as project manager to track fundraising portfolio management activities in Raisers Edge and provide monthly analytic reporting.
• Partners with the marketing/communications and events staff to plan for direct donor communications via newsletters and social media, and other messaging strategies.
• Manages and drives execution of the individual giving stewardship program, from standard acknowledgement letters to high-touch activities that acknowledge extraordinary giving.
• Plans and executes a variety of donor events, including open house, village events, and annual events
• Helps interpret giving motivations and guidelines for individual donors (stated and otherwise) and proactively engage colleagues across the organization for information collecting.
• Provides administrative and clerical support to Advancement team, including data entry/manipulation and communications via telephone and email.

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