Manager Prospect Researcher Jobs in Oregon (NOW HIRING)

Application Guidelines:

• Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until filled, please apply or share interest promptly.
• A cover letter is recommended for consideration.
• This position is currently hybrid.
• We recognize that people gain skills and experience in many different ways. If you’re excited about this role and believe you could succeed in it, we encourage you to apply — even if you do not meet every qualification listed. We especially welcome applications from people with lived experience related to hunger, poverty, and systemic inequities.

Who We Are:

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes.  We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That’s why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience — and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity. 

Who You Are:

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism.  You have a strong affinity with OFB’s 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary:

You will join 45+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger’s root causes. Together we mobilize $24M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank’s mission while advancing Rooted + Rising: A $50M+ transformational campaign to realize OFB’s 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropy’s true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core. Learn more from our team members daring to imagine and leading to create a more just experience of philanthropy. 

As the Community Philanthropy Developer - Prospect Research & Management, you will contribute to the organization’s success by facilitating prospect research and management programs that reach relationship development and resource mobilization goals and objectives of Oregon Food Bank and Community Philanthropy. This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management. 

You will perform duties like complex reporting; data analysis, data systems design, and data entry; donor research; portfolio management, and more. You will consult directly with Community Philanthropy team members to identify and qualify major donor prospects who have propensity and capacity to support OFB. Along with research and analysis, you will help manage major gift donor portfolios in the donor database by providing analysis and recommendations, ensuring database integrity and sound use by the team. 

This position can perform their duties from anywhere within Oregon & SW Washington and establish a homebase from any of Oregon Food Bank’s facilities in Beaverton, Ontario, Portland, The Dalles, or Tillamook, OR. OFB can provide this position dedicated desk space within an Oregon Food Bank facility, or the role can be performed predominantly from a home office and attend periodically-required visits to OFB facilities. Accommodations can be made and candidates are encouraged to inquire. 

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Support the Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management in the facilitation of prospect research and management programs and systems that effectively track and manage supporters within the Raiser’s Edge NXT and EveryAction databases. 

  • Supportmoves management, proposals, and qualitative denotations for action types (aligned with Community Philanthropy’s theory of change and the centering of love and equity in our work). 

  • Maintain compliance with advocacy regulations for 501(c)(3) and affiliated 501(c)(4)s.  

  • Develop and maintain prospect development policies and procedures in collaboration with Prospect Research & Management colleagues. Assist with training Community Philanthropy staff in prospect development best practices and organizational standards. 

• Proactively and independently, plan and execute strategies to identify sources of major gifts ($10,000+) support using creative research techniques and electronic searching methodologies. Develop and execute strategies to ensure that newly identified prospects are presented and assigned to appropriate relationship managers in a timely manner. 

• Provide high-level research on individuals, corporations, and foundations using a wide variety of biographical, organizational and financial sources, including online database services, Internet websites, and other external repositories of public information. 

• Mine large sets of data to prioritize and segment prospect lists using Raiser’s Edge NXT and EveryAction database, based on the strength of relationship with OFB, financial capacity, giving propensity, and other data points in order to create portfolios that center love and decenter money and to support strategic outreach tactics. 

• Compose profiles, biographies, and reports using style, grammar and content appropriate to specific audiences. Distill and communicate key information, which directs engagement and solicitation strategies. 

• Remain current with trends in prospect research by attending training sessions, networking with other professionals in the field, participating in professional conferences and subscribing to electronic listservs focusing on prospect research and fundraising issues. Also, become and remain knowledgeable about UB and current events, programs, and academic accomplishments. 

• Organizational level responsibilities of exempt employees include:

  • To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB’s vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good