The Role
Lead development and scale a major gifts program, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding high-capacity donors and family foundations to secure six- and seven-figure philanthropic investments. Manage a portfolio, build strategy with leadership, design donor engagement and stewardship, coordinate meetings and site visits, and represent the organization externally. Travel up to 25% for donor engagement and program visits.
Summary Generated by Built In
Senior Major Gifts Officer
Reports to: Director, Global Business Development
Location: Remote (East Coast)
Help Transform Community Health for 25 Million People
Living Goods is at an inflection point.
For more than 15 years, we have partnered with governments across Africa to strengthen community health systems and ensure that families can access quality healthcare where they live. Our work has helped demonstrate that when community health workers are equipped with the right tools, training, supervision, and data, governments can deliver lifesaving care at scale.
Today, the global health landscape is changing. Traditional funding models are shifting, governments are demanding greater impact and efficiency, and new technologies, including artificial intelligence, are creating unprecedented opportunities to improve frontline healthcare delivery.
Living Goods is meeting this moment with a bold new strategy.
By 2030, we aim to support governments in enabling 50,000 community health workers to reach 25 million people across our core countries, contributing to a measurable reduction in maternal and child mortality. Achieving this vision will require transformational partnerships with philanthropists and family foundations who believe that lasting change happens when governments are equipped to deliver for their people.
That's where you come in.
The Opportunity:
This is not a traditional major gifts role.
We are seeking an entrepreneurial and relationship-driven fundraising leader who wants to help build and scale a major gifts program capable of generating more than $5 million annually in philanthropic support.
You will partner closely with the Director of Global Business Development, executive leadership, and program leaders to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward philanthropists and family foundations capable of making six- and seven-figure investments in Living Goods' mission.
This role offers a rare opportunity to help shape strategy, influence organizational growth, and build meaningful partnerships with some of the most sophisticated philanthropists in the United States.
The ideal candidate is energized by building something ambitious, enjoys creating opportunities where none previously existed, and thrives in an environment that values initiative, creativity, collaboration, and results.
What You'll Do:
Build and Scale a Transformational Major Gifts Program
Who You Are:
Why Join Living Goods?
Compensation
Salary range: $105,000–$120,000, commensurate with experience, plus competitive benefits and performance-based incentive opportunity.
Reports to: Director, Global Business Development
Location: Remote (East Coast)
Help Transform Community Health for 25 Million People
Living Goods is at an inflection point.
For more than 15 years, we have partnered with governments across Africa to strengthen community health systems and ensure that families can access quality healthcare where they live. Our work has helped demonstrate that when community health workers are equipped with the right tools, training, supervision, and data, governments can deliver lifesaving care at scale.
Today, the global health landscape is changing. Traditional funding models are shifting, governments are demanding greater impact and efficiency, and new technologies, including artificial intelligence, are creating unprecedented opportunities to improve frontline healthcare delivery.
Living Goods is meeting this moment with a bold new strategy.
By 2030, we aim to support governments in enabling 50,000 community health workers to reach 25 million people across our core countries, contributing to a measurable reduction in maternal and child mortality. Achieving this vision will require transformational partnerships with philanthropists and family foundations who believe that lasting change happens when governments are equipped to deliver for their people.
That's where you come in.
The Opportunity:
This is not a traditional major gifts role.
We are seeking an entrepreneurial and relationship-driven fundraising leader who wants to help build and scale a major gifts program capable of generating more than $5 million annually in philanthropic support.
You will partner closely with the Director of Global Business Development, executive leadership, and program leaders to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward philanthropists and family foundations capable of making six- and seven-figure investments in Living Goods' mission.
This role offers a rare opportunity to help shape strategy, influence organizational growth, and build meaningful partnerships with some of the most sophisticated philanthropists in the United States.
The ideal candidate is energized by building something ambitious, enjoys creating opportunities where none previously existed, and thrives in an environment that values initiative, creativity, collaboration, and results.
What You'll Do:
Build and Scale a Transformational Major Gifts Program
- Partner with the Director of Global Business Development to develop and execute a comprehensive major gifts strategy focused on securing six- and seven-figure philanthropic investments.
- Help shape the future growth of Living Goods' individual and family foundation fundraising program.
- Identify new opportunities, emerging trends, and innovative approaches to engage major donors.
- Develop and implement donor engagement strategies that align donor interests with Living Goods' highest-impact priorities.
- Serve as an internal thought partner on major donor strategy, philanthropic trends, and relationship management.
- Build and manage a portfolio of high-capacity donors and prospects capable of making gifts of $100,000+ annually.
- Create and execute individualized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship plans.
- Personally solicit and close six- and seven-figure gifts.
- Leverage existing donor relationships to expand Living Goods' philanthropic network.
- Develop and maintain a robust pipeline of qualified prospects and strategic opportunities.
- Collaborate with organizational leadership to advance donor conversations and secure transformational investments.
- Design meaningful engagement opportunities that deepen donor understanding of Living Goods' impact.
- Coordinate donor meetings, events, learning opportunities, and site visits.
- Ensure donors receive thoughtful stewardship and reporting that demonstrates the value and impact of their investment.
- Represent Living Goods with professionalism, authenticity, and enthusiasm in external settings.
Who You Are:
- Proven Major Gifts Fundraiser
- Builder and Strategist
- Exceptional Relationship Manager
- Outstanding Communicator
- Collaborative and Culturally Intelligent
- Entrepreneurial and Resourceful
Why Join Living Goods?
- Build Something Meaningful
- Drive Transformational Impact
- Partner with Exceptional Leaders
- Grow Your Career
- Experience the Mission Firsthand
- Travel
Compensation
Salary range: $105,000–$120,000, commensurate with experience, plus competitive benefits and performance-based incentive opportunity.
Living Goods is an equal opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.
Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.
Skills Required
- 10+ years experience securing major gifts from high-net-worth individuals and family foundations
- Demonstrated record of closing six- and seven-figure gifts
- Experience building and executing a major gifts strategy and scaling fundraising programs
- Ability to manage a portfolio of high-capacity donors and maintain a robust prospect pipeline
- Proven ability to personally solicit and close major philanthropic gifts
- Exceptional written, storytelling, and presentation skills
- Strong relationship management skills with sophisticated donors and advisors
- Collaborative, culturally sensitive approach to working across teams and geographies
- Entrepreneurial, self-directed, and results-oriented work style
- Willingness to travel up to 25% (primarily U.S. with occasional international travel)
- Experience in global health, international development, or systems change
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The Company
What We Do
Living Goods is a non-profit organization that empowers community health workers with digital tools to deliver lifesaving primary healthcare door-to-door. By partnering with governments and leveraging smart mobile technology, they provide essential medicines and training to underserved families, specifically focusing on reducing child mortality and improving health outcomes across Africa through an innovative retail-inspired distribution model.
