Director of Strategic Partnerships

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Since 1992, The Veritas Forum has invited university communities to dialogue with respect and curiosity about the ideas that shape our lives. Veritas is seeking its first dedicated major gifts officer to develop and cultivate a portfolio of $25K+ major donors and prospective funders for long-term revenue growth. In recent years, Veritas has expanded our program model for wider and deeper impact, attracting increased funding and philanthropic interest. Revenue has tripled from $2.5M to $7.4M over the past five years. By God’s grace, Veritas hopes to continue increasing revenue in the years ahead to help more students and faculty engage in conversations about life’s big questions.

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The position will report directly to the VP of Development and will be an integral addition to a growing, driven, and talented development team that includes grant management, event management, systems and database management, and specialized communications. This role will bring the team to six FTEs.

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Major Responsibilities

• Identify, cultivate, and steward a portfolio of major donors and prospects by crafting and executing strategic plans for engagement
• Play a lead role in soliciting and closing major gifts from the funders and prospective funders in your portfolio
• Develop a growing community of long-term values-aligned and visionary funders
• Collaborate with the Executive Director and Senior Advisors to steward our principal investors
• Travel 5-10 days/ month to cultivate financial partners and prospective partners within your region, as defined by your location and the needs of Veritas’s growing program

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Other Responsibilities

• Craft major gift proposals, stewardship materials, and related deliverables to support your portfolio 
• Cultivate well-networked Veritas champions in the region who can introduce us to prospective funders
• Coordinate partner-track event needs and research requests with our Director of Partner Care
• Provide our Development Systems Manager with the functional requirements for the tools and reports needed to support your portfolio
• Track and report relationship management activity using our Salesforce donor management system
• Monitor weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual activity to achieve individual performance measures

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Mission Fit 

• Be a mature and growing Christian whose passion for Christ should be grounded in the regular disciplines of Bible study, prayer, and fellowship with other believers in the context of a local church and be evidenced by the fruit of the Spirit in their lives
• Sincere enthusiasm for the mission of The Veritas Forum

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Work Experience

• Proven success in major gift fundraising (or significant comparable work in sales or other client-management profession), including cultivating, securing, and stewarding new revenue
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal,  and presentation skills
• Ability to think strategically and work with limited oversight
• Ability to meet tight deadlines, juggle multiple projects simultaneously, and pivot quickly to changing timelines and priorities in a fast-paced work environment
• Experience developing clear and compelling funding proposals
• Experience using Salesforce (or similar CRM platform), G Suite, and Microsoft Office Suite
• Bachelor’s Degree required

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Position Overview

Status┃Full-time, exempt

Location┃Fully remote. Must be willing and able to work from home.

Travel Requirements┃5-10 days per month

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Benefits & Compensation

The Veritas Forum offers benefits and compensation commensurate with experience and competitive with other nonprofit organizations.

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Next Steps

Interested applicants should send a resume and cover letter to jobs@veritas.org with the subject “Strategic Partnerships”

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About Veritas

Many of the world’s great universities were founded on the idea that faith and reason are inseparable in the pursuit of truth. We believe this still holds true—and that an openness to dialogue and discovery is essential to both the university and Christianity. The Veritas Forum puts the Christian faith in dialogue with other beliefs and invites participants from all backgrounds to seek truth together.

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Driving this vision are three core pillars of work: campus dialogue, community formation, and content engagement. We come alongside students, faculty, and campus ministers to help create Forums on university campuses around the world that invite intellectually curious students and scholars to explore life’s big ideas. In support of this work, we connect, form, and train networks of students and faculty leaders who carry on the conversations through journals and scholarship, and we extend the conversations to global audiences through digital media.

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The first Veritas forum took place at Harvard in 1992, and today nearly 200 universities across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia host Forums, and have engaged over 800,000 students, faculty, and university community members.

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Our Name

"Veritas" is the Latin word for truth—and a word commonly found in university mottos; it refers to our belief that truth can be sought and found. "Forum" refers to our commitment to creating spaces where ideas can be openly shared and discussed.

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Our Beliefs

We are grounded and motivated by the historic Christian faith that seeks to love God and neighbor. We affirm the Nicene Creed and are ecumenical and invitational in our approach.

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