Director of Organization Giving

The Director of Organization Giving is primarily responsible for leading the strategy to cultivate, steward, and grow relationships with private, corporate, and family foundations, as well as churches and businesses. This role develops and executes a comprehensive organizational giving strategy to expand strategic generosity partnerships and increase financial support for the mission. The Director collaborates with Development leadership and cross-functional teams to identify compelling giving opportunities, invite financial investment, communicate giving impact, and strengthen long-term relationships with organizational partners.

• Lead the strategic management and growth of a portfolio of approximately 20–40 foundations, developing individualized engagement strategies to strengthen partnerships and expand giving opportunities.
• Identify and pursue mission-aligned foundations and organizations, developing strategic opportunities that invite them into meaningful partnerships with YouVersion.
• Evaluate philanthropic trends, foundation priorities, and funding landscapes to inform organizational giving strategy and identify new partnership opportunities.
  
  
Build Strategic Giving Partnerships
• Build long-term, trust-based partnerships with foundation officers, trustees, and key stakeholders, ensuring they feel known, spiritually encouraged, and connected to the impact of their giving.
• Conduct and maintain consistent, meaningful engagement with existing foundation partners through personalized communication, meetings, and other relational touch points.
• Represent YouVersion's vision and organizational giving opportunities at foundation gatherings, conferences, and YouVersion-specific donor events.
  
  
Manage Giving Operations and Reporting
• In addition to relational touch points, provide professional updates on strategic KPIs, impact metrics, and future vision to organizational partners.
• Lead the full grant lifecycle for organizational partners, including identification, cultivation, proposal development, submission, reporting, and renewal.
• Oversee the tracking and evaluation of the foundation giving activity within the CRM to ensure accountability and measurable growth.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to identify and develop strategic giving opportunities that attract new foundation partners and strengthen existing relationships.

• Ability to self-motivate, make independent decisions, and solve problems with innovation.
• Effective at multi-tasking and time management to meet strict deadlines while remaining flexible and open to change.
• Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Effective at process and organizational management to coordinate, structure, and provide vision to projects.
• Strong relational skills with the ability to build authentic, long-term partnerships.
• Ability to navigate foundation giving vehicles, including grants, appreciated securities, donor-advised funds (DAFs), and planned giving, to develop effective giving partnerships.
• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, philanthropy, or a related field.
• 3-5 years of experience in foundation relations, grant writing, or major gifts fundraising in faith-based nonprofit environments.
• Experience with nonprofit financial structures, including program budgeting, restricted and unrestricted funding, and impact measurement.

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