Donor Relations Officer
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Job Location:
Dallas, IA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
25-10-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Responsive recruiter
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Training & development
- Vision insurance
This position is critical to the ministry of Sky Ranch and contributes directly to our mission of leading youth and families to know and follow Christ. To secure financial resources by managing a defined portfolio of mid-level donors using a relationship-first data-driven approach. The Donor Relations Officer retains and upgrades donors delivers personalized stewardship and solicitations and qualifies donors for assignment to Major Gifts aligning donor passions with organizational priorities. The Donor Relations Officer delivers personalized scalable engagementensuring a consistently excellent faith-aligned donor experience.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of 400900 mid-level donors (typ. annual giving $250$9999)
- Create an individual goal and annual contact plan for each assigned donor; execute a 1218 touch plan (calls emails handwritten notes impact updates targeted asks and invitations).
- Conduct disciplined daily outreach (4060 attempts; target 812 two-way meaningful contacts/day); document all interactions in the CRM within 24 hours.
- Make timely personalized solicitations with clear next steps; maintain an active solicitation pipeline across the portfolio.
- Achieve a minimum annual fundraising goal
- Qualify donors for Major Gifts using defined criteria (passion/interest capacity inclination) and complete warm joint hand-offs with MGOs.
- Partner with Marketing/Programs to tailor impact content and offer sets (specific outcomes and ask ladders).
- Collaborate with Gift Processing/Stewardship to ensure fast accurate acknowledgments and benefits fulfillment.
- Maintain data hygiene; produce weekly reports (coverage contact rate responses upgrades qualifications revenue).
- Participate in team meetings training and occasional donor events; some evening/weekend work as needed.
- Demonstrate care and stewardship in each donor relationshipincluding praying with and for donorswhile building genuine relationships and discovering their interests and passions to connect them to meaningful giving opportunities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
EDUCATION
- Bachelors degree required.
EXPERIENCE
- 25 years in fundraising sales or customer success with measurable portfolio goals.
- Experience managing relationship portfolios and moving donors to higher giving levels.
- CRM fluency (e.g. Salesforce Raisers Edge NXT Virtuous) and comfort with list building and basic analytics.
KNOWLEDGE
- Microsoft Office/Google Workspace; presentation tools; customer databases/CRMs.
- Phone email and digital outreach best practices; social and professional platforms (e.g. LinkedIn) for research and light engagement.
- Basic fundraising principles including donor lifecycle retention upgrade strategy and stewardship.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
- Subscribe to the utmost level of professionalism
- Effective communicator across all mediums
- Excellent interpersonal skills and relationship building skills
- High-energy dynamic leader that enjoys connecting relationally with others of all ages life experiences and backgrounds.
- Proven self-starter self-managed driven to succeed.
- Proven track record
- Proven ability to develop and execute a plan
- Articulate
- Must be visionary and people oriented.
- Proven ability to connect people together and foster a community that meets real needs.
- Must establish and maintain professional working relationships with employees managers and external constituents including demonstrating consistent Speed of Trust behaviors.
- Possess current drivers license and able to drive company vehicles as needed.
- Social media experience
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Little to no effort required. Ability to use up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently to move objects.
- Ability to grasp push pull carry or otherwise manipulate objects; ability to perform tasks requiring action of muscles or groups of muscles and foot and/or hand-eye coordination.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
- Based in North Texas; works remotely
- Weekly in person meeting(s) in Dallas office as requested.
OTHER
Commitment to Christian principles and teachings both professionally and personally. Must be able to support Sky Ranchs Doctrinal Statement fully and be an active member in a church whose spiritual beliefs are aligned with Sky Ranchs Doctrinal Statement.
Commitment to Sky Ranchs Vision Mission Values (Who We A.R.E.) and Principles (WOW Stewardship and Excellence) demonstrated in daily behavior.
Must demonstrate annually a clear background check and review of child safety practices as required for camp accreditation by the American Camping Association.
Flexible work from home options available.
Sky Ranch is a year-round recreational camp ministry with locations in Texas Colorado and Oklahoma. Our mission is to lead youth and families to know and follow Christ. For over 65 years weve created experiences in engaging camp environments helping parents and leaders inspire challenge and encourage. Come join us!
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
Key Skills
- English
- Academics
- Creative
- Domestic
- Games
- IT Sales
About Company
Sky Ranch is one of North America’s premier Christian Camps with locations in Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma and offers programming for summer camps, retreats, rodeo training, and school programs. Learn more today!
