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About the role: The Director of Individual Giving will lead the strategy, growth, and execution of Vera’s individual donor program, with a focus on building a strong and sustainable individual giving pipeline. This newly created role is both a frontline fundraiser and a strategic manager, responsible for personally cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding a portfolio of approximately 75 prospects with capacity of $100,000 or more, while ensuring growth of individual revenue across individual giving channels.    The Director will manage and support the PMG Manager, Midlevel Manager, Associate Director (Digital), and Events Manager, ensuring that individual donor engagement is integrated, coordinated, and aligned with organizational fundraising priorities. The Director will create and implement strategies to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward individual donors, with a particular emphasis on elevating donors throughout the pipeline and increasing long-term philanthropic investment in the organization’s mission.   1. Frontline fundraising   Manage a personal portfolio of approximately 75 qualified prospects and donors with capacity of $100,000 or more, creating tailored cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship plans for each relationship   Identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward individual donors, with a focus on securing significant gifts, increasing donor retention, and upgrading donors over time   Prepare and review donor briefings, proposals, solicitation materials, stewardship reports, acknowledgments, and other written materials needed to advance individual giving relationships   Partner and engage organization leadership and programmatic staff on moves management and cultivation   Maintain accurate and timely donor records, contact reports, next steps, and pipeline information in the organization’s CRM   2. Individual giving strategy and management   Develop and lead a comprehensive individual giving strategy that advances donors through the organization’s pipeline, from digital and event-based engagement to midlevel, major, and principal giving   Partner with development leadership, executive leadership, board members, program staff, communications, and finance colleagues to shape compelling cases for support and donor engagement opportunities   Ensure digital fundraising and donor communications strategies support acquisition, retention, segmentation, personalization, and donor movement across the pipeline   Create systems and strategies that connect annual, midlevel, digital, events, and major gifts work into a cohesive donor experience and clear moves management pipeline   Use donor data, wealth screening, engagement metrics, and prospect research to set priorities, identify upgrade opportunities, and evaluate progress toward revenue and activity goals   3. Cross-team collaboration   Oversee the PMG Manager, Midlevel Manager, Digital Associate Director, and Events Manager, providing strategic direction, coaching, accountability, and coordination across individual giving functions   Monitor individual giving performance against goals, provide regular reporting, and recommend adjustments to strategy based on results, donor behavior, and organizational priorities   What qualifications are we looking for? Required :   Advanced degree and 12+ years of significant professional experience in individual and major gift fundraising, including managing other fundraising. In lieu of degree requirement, applicable work or life experience may be considered.   Candidates must have ability to close 6 and 7 figure gifts and experience securing gifts from prospects.    Minimum of 3 years of t