Full Time Fundraiser

Since 1983, the Peconic Land Trust, a nonprofit charitable organization, has worked collaboratively with landowners, communities, municipalities, and partner organizations to protect over 14,000 acres of land on Long Island, NY – more than 7,000 acres of farmland, many miles of trail systems, and over 6,000 acres of preserves and natural lands that protect watershed, shorelines, wildlife habitat, scenic vistas, land sacred to indigenous people and historic resources.

We are seeking a skilled Individual Giving Manager to be a direct fundraiser by building and strengthening relationships with individual donors and prospects to increase philanthropic support for Peconic Land Trust. As an integral member of the Development team, this position focuses on donor qualification, leadership-level upgrades, donor retention/reactivation and building a strong pipeline of future major gift prospects.

Reporting to the VP of Development, this position will be a trust builder and strong collaborator with exceptional listening/communication skills and a passion for connecting with and understanding donor’s needs, goals and interests to align with the Trust’s initiatives.

Fundraising Strategy and Implementation:

• Personally solicit donors and prospects for annual, project-based, and other organizational funding priorities.
• Conduct outreach to convert event attendees, program participants, volunteers, members, and other engaged constituents into philanthropic supporters.
• Partner with the Donor Engagement & Stewardship Manager to ensure assigned donors receive consistent, thoughtful, and appropriate stewardship face to face, virtual and written communication.
• Collaborate with Marketing & Communications, program staff, and other departments as needed to support donor engagement and fundraising efforts.
• Serve as a frontline fundraising representative at cultivation and stewardship events, donor tours, and signature Trust wide events.
• Utilize our database and research tools to build proposals for current

ew donors and routinely enter and update data.

Minimum of 3-5 years of professional experience in fundraising, development, donor relations, membership, alumni relations or community engagement.

• Bachelor’s degree or at least 5 years of above experience
• Comfort initiating conversations, developing relationships, and discussing philanthropic support with donors and prospective donors.
• Strong writing, listening, interpersonal, and oral communication skills.
• Experience using databases, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to travel around the east end of LI, including occasional travel to New York City, and occasional work during evenings and weekends.

Knowledge of Long Island and New York City philanthropic and corporate communities a plus.

• Experience with Salesforce a plus.
• Hybrid position with at least 1-2 days a week in the Southampton, NY office after 90 days.
• Full-time, exempt position working at least 35 hours per week Mon-Fri to include some evenings and occasional weekends.
• Local travel by car regularly, NYC and Tri-state travel by train, car or ferry, along with air travel out of state when needed.

Subsidized medical, voluntary dental and vision, FSA and company funded HRA.

• Company paid profit sharing pension plan.
• Annual bonus and salary increase potential.