Leadership and Planned Giving Specialist

Who We Are: 

Our vision is to grant the wish of every eligible child. Through our mission, we are uniting communities to grant life-changing wishes. As the world’s largest wish-granting organization, we strive to create a sense of community and an environment where we warmly embrace our wish families, volunteers, and colleagues.

Joining Make-A-Wish means becoming part of a mission that believes in the power of a wish.  

Location:

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We do not sponsor employment visas or other immigration processes to attain or maintain employment eligibility.

Remote positions are open to applicants based anywhere in the continental U.S. Hybrid positions are open to applicants based in the Phoenix, Arizona area. 

Position Summary:

The Leadership and Planned Giving Specialist serves a critical role on the Leadership and Planned Giving team at Make-A-Wish America, reporting to the Director of Planned Giving. The role of the Specialist is to enhance the operational excellence of the unit in the areas of gift programs, communications, estate management, planned gift marketing, endowment management and distributions, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) reporting, revenue forecasting, budget management, and overall leverage of the CRM.  Through this work, the Specialist will enhance the ability of the Leadership and Planned Giving team to successfully work with lifetime benefactors and estate representatives, maximize the breadth and depth of benefactor outreach and stewardship, and grow annual revenue.

This position is expected to manage and execute tasks with a high level of accountability and accuracy.  The Specialist is expected to be highly collaborative with other Make-A-Wish America departments and Make-A-Wish chapters to achieve excellence.

Knowledge and Abilities:

• Strong organizational skills, ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deliver against deadlines.
• Proven ability to manage and execute highly detailed work, while managing deadlines and multiple priorities.
• Flexibility to quickly shift priorities, multi-task and juggle simultaneous requirements in fast paced environment.
• Self-starter with willingness to work on projects that may contain uncertainty and necessity to learn in the process.
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve independently, identify, and deliver continuous improvement to process, and to learn new concepts and apply those learnings to work.
• Ability to communicate effectively when solution may not be known, willingness to dive into issues to problem solve, recommend next steps, and move forward with solutioning.