Manager, Philanthropy

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**Summary**:
Jays Care Foundation, the charitable arm of the Toronto Blue Jays, uses the game of baseball to give kids across Canada a place on a team where they belong. Proudly working in all ten provinces and all three territories, Jays Care runs baseball for development programming for more than 60,000 children and youth annually. Through the Field Of Dreams program, the Foundation has also invested nearly $15 million into building or refurbishing more than 160 community baseball diamonds across Canada. Jays Care has been recognized as a top 100 Charity in Canada and is the proud two-time winner of Major League Baseball’s Commissioner’s Award for Philanthropic Excellence.

To enable future generations of children and youth to have access to inclusive baseball programming, Jays Care’s Philanthropy team is seeking to hire a **Manager, Philanthropy**, on a 6 month contract.

**Reports to**:Director, Philanthropy

**Compensation**:$38.50/ hour

**Location**:Toronto - Rogers Centre

The Manager, Philanthropy will focus on the prospecting, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship activity for current and prospective foundations and high net worth individual donors, and the development, implementation and measurement of several annual donor appeals including the acquisition, and retention of monthly donors. The Manager, Philanthropy is responsible for attracting and building strategic relationships with current and prospective individuals and foundations to secure multi-year philanthropic gifts that are in alignment with the Foundation’s goals, strategic plan and priority programs.

This position has financial accountability of more than $1.0 million annually and is responsible for proactively developing and managing a pipeline of 100 to 140 prospects and donors at all stages of the development cycle.

The Manager will be part of a high performing philanthropy team that works collaboratively with Foundation colleagues and Toronto Blue Jays departments to inspire meaningful donor relationships.

**Responsibilities of the Manager, Philanthropy include**:
**Major Gifts (75%**)
- Work in collaboration with the Director of Philanthropy to attract multi-year 6 figure commitments with Individuals and Foundations, including identifying and developing channels for acquisition
- Actively prospects, cultivates, solicits, closes and renews major gifts exceeding $25,000 annually
- Builds relationships within Toronto Blue Jays Ticketing and Premium Suites to develop the pipeline
- Key Relationship Manager for prospects, once cleared internally at Pipeline meetings, from prospect research to stewardship
- Develop and execute cultivation, solicitation and stewardship plans for key donors and prospects that inspire them to make multi-year commitments
- Lead the strategy, proposal development and meeting engagements for major gift prospects, in collaboration with other members of the team
- Maintains all donor cycle activities in Salesforce to ensure accurate, timely tracking and reporting including past actions and future activity
- Leads the development, implementation and evaluation of the monthly donor program
- In collaboration with the Director of Philanthropy, Senior Manager, Corporate Partnerships and Senior Manager, Events, develops, implements and evaluates the conversion of donors from other channels to monthly and major gift donors
- Develop and manage budgets annually and monthly to minimize expenses and maximize revenues
- In collaboration with the Manager, Donor & Government Relations, leads the development, implementation and evolution of the donor engagement matrix for Individuals and Foundations which includes Acknowledgement, Recognition and Stewardship
- Identifies prospects for planned giving, and develops strategies for legacy development in association with other team members

**Annual & Monthly Giving, and Community Fundraising: (25%)**
- Leads the creation, implementation, and evaluation of donor fundraising campaigns in collaboration with Marketing Communications, the Director of Philanthropy, and the Coordinator of Philanthropy.
- Conducts data analysis using Salesforce to identify fundraising opportunities and optimize donor engagement.
- Develops and executes annual giving campaigns, to e