Major Gifts Officer
The Menninger Clinic · menningerclinic.org
HoustonHybridSenior5+ yrs
The job in short
Major gifts fundraising.
Marketing
Details
- Found
- 27 d ago · posted 2026-05-05
- Location as listed
- Houston-Main, Houston, TX, US
- Role
- Business Development
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
**Please provide a writing sample with your resume uploaded as one file. Sample can be a report, grant proposal, or internal leadership memo**
Schedule: Hybrid. M-F 8:00A-5:00p, two days in-office with Wednesdays required.
Key Functions
• Raise mid-level, major and planned gifts to support the institutions philanthropic priorities.
• Achieve fundraising goals – individual, team and organizational – and meet Office of Philanthropy metrics.
• Strategically develop, implement and report fundraising strategies for his/her portfolio of major gift donors and prospects to effectively move them through a meaningful cycle of giving.
• Make strategic face-to-face visits and qualify prospects that lead to major gifts for research, training and education, patient programs, capital and endowment.
• Develop appropriate cultivation strategies for donors, including staffing key volunteers.
• Move potential donors in an appropriate and timely fashion through, and back-to, the prospect pipeline, with a focus on closure of gifts and long-term stewardship.
• Work with internal team members, leadership and volunteers to submit proposals and requests that lead to major gifts for research, training and education, patient programs, capital and endowments (when appropriate).
• Maintain stewardship contacts with donors; adhere to the highest ethical standards; demonstrate empathetic disposition, and perseverance; reflect optimistic and positive attitude, and convey sensitivity to needs of the donors.
• Involve others when appropriate (i.e., Board Directors, clinic leadership, faculty, other departments, and team mates) in the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of major gift donors and prospects.
• Monitors and reports on all assigned prospect contacts to ensure positive and purposeful prospect and donor relations.
• Achieve goals within budget.
Education
Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business or related field
Preferred: Master’s degree in related field
Preferred Certification: CFRE
Experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience in developing and implementing fundraising strategies, resulting in major gifts ($100K+).
• Measurable track record in raising multiple major gifts ($100K+), preferably in capital and medical training and research – with results also in general operating/unrestricted, endowment, and other programmatic objective.
• Preferably, experience securing major gifts from Texas foundations, especially private foundations in the Greater Houston Area.
• Knowledge of the Texas Medical Center, a plus.
• Experience in planned giving, a plus.
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