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Work. Serve. Thrive.

Imagine a place where your talent makes a meaningful difference in peoples' lives. Working at Harvest Hope Food Bank is a uniquely rewarding experience in which our employees work together as vital parts of a much larger mission—ending hunger. We are a nonprofit that is innovative, mission-focused, diverse, collaborative, and values-driven.

As the state’s largest hunger-relief organization serving 20 counties in South Carolina, we source and distribute 30 million pounds of food each year. With locations in the Midlands, Pee Dee and Upstate, our mission is to build a hunger-free tomorrow by feeding our neighbors in need and addressing food insecurity. Through a network of over 400 partner agencies, we are actively working in all of our communities to end hunger.

Check out our open positions below. To apply, please complete the applications linked in each position.

Administration

Midlands

Pee Dee

Major Gifts Manager

Logistics & Work Environment:
This full-time position at our Pee Dee (Florence) Branch operates primarily in an office setting within the branch, as well as being in the community. This position may require traveling during the day and responding to organizational needs outside of normal working hours.
The hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, totaling 37.5 hours per week. Please apply by clicking on this link.

A Day in the Life:
The Major Gifts Manager is responsible for managing a major gift portfolio to retain and grow donor relationships. Key duties include personal meetings, tours, engagement events, and other cultivation methods. This role focuses on increasing donors' knowledge, involvement, and financial support. The Manager will work towards annual revenue targets through an assigned donor portfolio, including unrestricted, restricted, and capital projects, and will promote planned giving opportunities.

Manages a portfolio of up to 125 individual donors.
Qualifies identified prospective and current donors.
Creates individual goals for each person in their portfolio based on the donor’s history of giving and the gift officer’s knowledge of the donor’s giving potential.
Creates a plan with a timeline for each donor in their portfolio that is based on principles of donor-driven relationship building.
Executes individual donor plans such that individuals in the portfolio are retained and/or upgraded in the annual giving.
Creates offers, proposals, and asks that will provide opportunities for donor retention and upgrade based on personal interests and passion for specific aspects of the mission.
Works with Director of Development and Agency Relations to create reports as required to accurately reflect portfolio activity and performance.
Meets established fundraising goals to support organizational needs.
Performs ongoing statistical analysis and revenue benchmarking to evaluate the overall growth and performance in focus area.
Engages portfolio and non-portfolio donors in conversations regarding planned giving when appropriate.
Actively manages the day-to-day relationships with donors and prospects through various activities including meetings, phone calls, letters, reports, emails, timely responses to donor inquiries and acknowledgements of gifts.
Log contact reports to the donor database(s).
Passionately represents Harvest Hope Food Bank’s mission, programs, and message with stakeholders and actively networks within the community to activate support behind our mission.
Performs other major donor/development activities as may be required (i.e., tours, public speaking, or spokesperson activities).
Serves as a community ambassador/spokesperson as needed.
Will have a fund development cash metric established by Director of Philanthropy.

To Qualify for this Position, you must have:
•    Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Business Administration, or related study.
•    Three or more years of experience working in nonprofit development or other related field.
•    Demonstrated experience in cultivating and soliciting prospects capable of five and six-figure gifts.
•    Self-starter, strong organizational skills, and attention to detail.
•    Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.
•    Excellent communications, interpersonal and customer service skills; comfortable with public speaking.
•    Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
•    Must be able to clearly articulate HHFB’s mission.
•    Ability to relate effectively and professionally with other staff, volunteers, agency representatives and the public.

Thrive
We offer a competitive annual salary range between $50,000 – 55,000, equal with experience and qualifications.

SOME OF THE VAST REWARDS OF WORKING HERE
As we work to eliminate hunger throughout, we state, we also work to care for our teams’ professional and personal growth and well-being.
•    Full support and career development resources to expand your skills, enhance your expertise and maximize your potential along your career journey.
•    A diverse and inclusive community of belonging, where teammates empower each other.
•    Generous Total Rewards Plan – comprising health, finance, and wealth work/life balance.
•    13 Paid Holidays
•    Paid Annual Leave – the longer you work here, the more you earn.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the tasks outlined in this job description.
This position is primarily set in a warehouse environment with varying temperatures, including freezers and outdoor weather conditions. The position is regularly required to sit, stand, bend, twist, carry and lift objects up to 30 to 50 pounds. With forklift traffic in the facility and product stacked and stored throughout, this position requires someone who is mobile and who can hear and watch for traffic and normal hazards of a warehouse environment.
Occasionally, this role is required to respond to organizational needs outside of normal working hours. The position is labor intensive and requires a fast pace.

Harvest Hope Food Bank is an equal opportunity employer and embraces a philosophy that recognizes and values diversity. Our goal is to attract, develop, retain and promote a talented diverse workforce in a culture where all employees will contribute to their fullest potential. This description provides information regarding the essential functions of the designated job and the general nature and level of work associated with the position. It should not be interpreted to describe all the duties whose performance may be required of such employees or be used to limit the nature and extent of assignments the individual may be given. This position description does not constitute an employment agreement or contract.