Teams at Cincinnati Nature Center

Manage an approximately 85-person major-gifts portfolio through prospect identification, cultivation, solicitation, closing, and stewardship. Develop donor-specific strategies, maintain CRM records, support campaign planning, and collaborate with leadership, board members, and volunteers. Manage the legacy-giving program, including planned-gift cultivation, donor recognition, communications, and stewardship. Participate in donor visits, events, tours, prospect research, pipeline forecasting, and fundraising strategy development.

Leads the nonprofit’s development function and fundraising strategy, overseeing annual giving, major gifts, capital campaigns, grants, sponsorships, planned giving, and donor stewardship. Manages a multi-person development team, collaborates with the executive director and board committees, uses analytics to guide fundraising decisions, manages budgets and reporting, and represents the organization in the community. The role also supports strategic planning, donor events, capital campaign activity, and occasional evening, weekend, and regional conference commitments.