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About the Role
The Annual Giving Officer, Baton Circle (AGOBC) is a frontline fundraiser responsible for managing a portfolio of 90-100 Major Gift and Planned Giving prospects. This role is also responsible for the fundraising strategy for the Symphony’s Baton Circle, a group of donors contributing $5,000-$24,999 annually.
Responsibilities
- Manage a Major Gift and Planned Giving portfolio of 90-100 households through identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship totaling $1.5M - $3.5M annually.
- Ensure prospect portfolio is routinely updated with contact reports, moves management, and documentation of milestones in the donor’s relationship with the Symphony.
- Plan, implement, and evaluate annual strategy for the Baton Circle, including renewal, new acquisition, upgrades, and additional gift requests, as well as strategic benefits and fulfilment.
- Create and maintain excellent donor relations.
- Collaborate with the donor engagement and development operations staff on all membership events and benefits, campaign premiums, stewardship activities, and other membership communications.
- Govern Baton Circle current and future expenses and revenue and regularly communicate progress toward goal, current strategies, and ROI.
- Develop a comprehensive, integrated strategy for the movement of donors between the three giving levels to meet income goals and grow the overall donor base.
- Work collaboratively with other Development staff to identify new prospects and coordinate strategic cultivation and solicitation steps and activities.
- Partner on strategy and management of the Symphony’s emerging philanthropist donor community, Prelude.
- Author and/or edit funding proposals, consistent with Symphony protocols, to facilitate effective gift solicitations.
- Maintain a broad knowledge of tax laws that impact charitable giving, personal assets and estates.
- Perform additional duties as required by the SFS.
Requirements
- 5-7 years of annual fund and major gift fundraising, with a track record of success preferably in the performing arts.
- Relevant experience outside the nonprofit environment working with high net worth individuals will be considered.
- Proven success in managing a portfolio and cultivating, stewarding, and soliciting prospects at the $15K+ level.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to professionally and diplomatically communicate and interact with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong organizational skills, with ability to work independently and manage highly detailed tasks.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and priorities, and meet deadlines in a high-volume, fast-paced environment.
- Committed to success of the symphonic artform and able to communicate thoughtfully and enthusiastically about the work of the San Francisco Symphony.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and donor database software.
- Willing to attend concerts and events, regularly on nights and weekends.
- Able to travel around the Bay Area and northern California as needed.
Skills
- Microsoft Office
- Donor database software
- Tessitura (preferred)
Location
- San Francisco, CA 94102
- Davies Symphony Hall San Francisco, CA
Work Type
- Full Time
- Hybrid
- Regular Hours: 9 am-5 pm; intermittent evenings and weekends
Experience Level
- Experienced
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- 4 Year Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $95,611.00 - $105,752.00 Salary/year
- Pay Grade G $95,611 - 105,752
About the Company
- The San Francisco Symphony is among the most adventurous and innovative arts institutions in the United States, celebrated for its artistic excellence, creative performance concepts, award-winning recordings, and standard-setting education and community engagement programs.
- The San Francisco Symphony presents more than 200 concerts and presentations annually for an audience of nearly 350,000 in its home of Davies Symphony Hall and around the Bay Area.
- A cornerstone of its mission, the San Francisco Symphony provides some of the most extensive education and community programs offered by any American orchestra.
- In 2001, the SF Symphony became the first American orchestra to launch its own in-house record label SFS Media.
- San Francisco Symphony radio broadcasts, the first in the nation to feature symphonic music when they began in 1926, today carry the Orchestra’s concerts across the country.
- In 2004, the SF Symphony launched the groundbreaking multimedia Keeping Score series on PBS-TV and the web; the series was made available for unlimited free streaming on the Symphony’s YouTube channel in 2020.
- In 2014, the San Francisco Symphony inaugurated SoundBox, an experimental and eclectic live music series, which takes place in an alternative performance space located backstage at Davies Symphony Hall.
- In 2023, the San Francisco Symphony partnered with Apple for the launch of a new classical music streaming app, Apple Music Classical, and has since released 15 spatial audio recordings of live concert performances through the app.
- For its adventurous programming, the Symphony has been honored 19 times by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Symphony’s recordings have garnered France’s Grand Prix du Disque and Britain’s Gramophone Award, as well as 17 Grammy® Awards.
Equal Opportunity
- In alignment with the values statement above, the San Francisco Symphony is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.