We’re Hiring! Open Positions Listed Below
If you’re passionate about impacting the vibrant and relevant conversation on faith and science through growing our network of major donors, we urge you to consider joining the BioLogos team. Currently, we are seeking a Part-time Major Gifts Officer to join our team in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The candidate is expected to support our Mission and Beliefs. We offer the flexibility of a hybrid work model to our team.
BioLogos explores God’s Word and God’s world to inspire authentic faith for today. We are a Christian ministry that addresses the intersection of faith with modern science through its resource-rich website, podcast, curriculum, and at events around the country. Today’s culture is torn by division, anger, and polarization. Where that division is focused on science, BioLogos seeks to be a voice of gracious dialogue, providing reliable information from a Christian perspective. Since our launch in 2009, BioLogos has featured the voices of leading scientists who are believers, as well as pastors, theologians, educators, and students, to show that faith and science can work hand in hand. BioLogos addresses questions around bioethics, human identity, evolution, environment, wonder and awe in creation, and more. In all of these contentious areas, science alone isn’t enough. We need to engage scientific findings from a Christian perspective, in a spirit of thoughtful, gracious, dialogue. Someone recently wrote to us and said “It is largely thanks to BioLogos that I am still a Christian and not an atheist; I’ve had my confidence in my faith and in Christ strengthened and restored.”
The Major Gifts Officer advances the BioLogos mission by growing our network of major donors in strategic audiences and targeted geographic locations across the country, building relationships with individuals and family foundations to secure five and six-figure gifts.
Key Responsibilities:
- The Major Gift Officer is responsible for prospect management strategies: develop, plan, and implement a comprehensive prospect strategy to achieve successful cultivation, engagement, and solicitations.
- The MGO builds relationships with major donors, retaining and growing each major donor from one giving level to the next.
The MGO cultivates relationships with family foundations, securing family foundation funding. - The MGO travels throughout the country as development strategy requires (9-12 trips per year) to meet and exceed donor engagement and revenue goals.
Requirements:
- A Christian faith alignment and commitment to the BioLogos mission
Demonstrated awareness and commitment to effectively establishing relationships and positive communication across multiple dimensions of diversity including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, gender, physical limitations, class, and religious perspectives. - Bachelor’s Degree required in related field; graduate work is a plus
- 5+ years of experience in building relationships with donors and a proven track record of increasing donor gifts in a Christian, non-profit environment
- Demonstrated success in securing five and six-figure gifts
- Strong written, verbal, interpersonal communication and presentation skills
- Experience building and maintaining long-term relationships with fundraising constituents such as major donors, foundations and corporations.
- Experience conducting and cultivating effective and authentic storytelling and narratives about the impact(s) of this work and approach.
Process of Candidacy
After reading about this open position, if you sense the gifts and experiences God has given you are a good fit for this position, we invite you to begin the inquiry process. All candidate information and conversations are handled confidentially. Please contact Zach Vertz (zach.vertz@titustalent.com) at Titus Talent, the search firm managing this search for BioLogos, to start the application process. Please note this position will remain open until filled.