Chief Development Officer, USA Hockey Foundation

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Job Title: Chief Development Officer
Location: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Reports To: Executive Director

The Chief Development Officer will lead all aspects of fundraising for The USA Hockey Foundation. This includes:

• Supervising day to day operations of the Foundation, including staff
• Creating a strategic fundraising plan to meet increasing revenue goals
• Maintain a portfolio of top donors and prospects
• Coordinate senior staff and volunteer leaders' donor relationship responsibilities

Essential Functions and Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Lead the development team to implement a strategic gift solicitation plan for generating major gifts from high-level prospects and donors.
• Supervise the Foundation staff and development team.
• Carry a portfolio and identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward major and planned gifts including initiating and making personal visits and sending written solicitations.
• Cultivate major donors through appropriate moves management strategy.
• Coordinate and conduct donor visits as necessary.
• Plan cultivation and stewardship events for major donors and donor prospects.
• Conduct prospect research to estimate financial capacity and organization/mission affinity.
• Generate contact call reports, status updates and metrics to provide leadership with an accurate portrayal of activity and financial projections.
• Develop and maintain strong collaborative working relationships with other members of the development team.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university.
• At least five years' experience in frontline fundraising position preferred.
• Direct responsibility for cultivating, soliciting and stewarding gifts of $10,000 or greater.
• Demonstrated success in securing five- and six-figure major gifts from individual donors.
• Superior oral, written and interpersonal communication skills required.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience with fundraising software a plus.
• Excellent negotiation and closing skills. Effective and compassionate listening skills. Exceptional presentation skills.
• Hockey knowledge and experience preferred.
• Extensive travel may be required.
• Candidates with transferable skills acquired in other professional settings (i.e. sales, account and relationship management) may be considered.
• Ability to positively engage with all USA Hockey constituent groups.

Salary: $145,000 - $165,000

Benefits: USA Hockey offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental, and vision covered by the company (excluding a small deduction for family dental), twelve paid holidays, a paid summer break, vacation accrual of 75 hours in the first year, two personal days, 57.5 hours sick time, 403B with a 4% match after six months as well as an additional 403B deferral program.

Availability: Position available immediately

Application Procedure: To apply, submit letter of application, current resume, and list of three references with contact information in one .pdf file