American Enterprise Institute Benefits Overview

The Major Gifts Officer will manage a portfolio of major donors, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding relationships that generate more than $3 million annually. Responsibilities include donor strategy, prospect research, fundraising planning, gift proposals, reporting, event coordination, and advising senior leadership. The role requires collaboration with scholars and staff to connect donor interests with AEI research and funding opportunities. Travel of 40% or more is expected, including donor meetings and events.

Supports individual-giving fundraising through Salesforce database management, donor and prospect research, gift and pledge processing, donor communications, proposal development, reporting, moves-management activities, and fundraising events. The role maintains accurate constituent records, assists with donor cultivation and engagement, and contributes to strategic fundraising projects and operations. This is a full-time, in-office position requiring occasional travel for donor trips and engagement opportunities.

Conducts data collection, cleaning, management, statistical and computational analysis for education policy research. Responsibilities include building reproducible ETL pipelines, creating visualizations and research materials, applying machine learning and natural language processing, validating model outputs, managing restricted-use data, reviewing analyses, and coordinating with external collaborators. Senior responsibilities include overseeing analytical projects, documenting methodologies, managing compute and API costs, and serving as a technical contact.