Information about the organization

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a federally chartered, nonpartisan institution that was created by the US Congress to serve as America's national memorial to the victims of the Holocaust and an educational institution dedicated to the history and lessons of the Holocaust. The Museum seeks to educate Americans from all 50 states and all walks of life as well as international audiences. The Museum has three areas of expertise: Holocaust remembrance, Holocaust scholarship and education, and genocide prevention.

In carrying out its important memorial and educational mission, the Museum is guided by its institutional values for our workplace: Honor the memory of the victims; carry out our work with dignity, humility, integrity and respect for others; and strive for excellence through teamwork, rigor, and a culture of continuous learning. Consistent respect for others is the foundation for trust, collegiality and inclusion.

Information about the role

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to serve as its Southeast Regional Director, based in Florida. The Southeast Region generates between $2.5 and $5 million annually in private philanthropic support for the Museum, including annual, capital, and endowment funds.

The Regional Director drives and oversees fundraising initiatives in key communities in Florida, and seeks out targeted opportunities to expand the Museum's base of support in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

This is a full-time donated position (non-Federal) paid with the Museum's private funds. Salary is commensurate with experience.

This position is located in Boca Raton, Florida and is hybrid telework eligible, within the Southeast Florida geographical region.

Duties, and Responsibilities for the role

• Leads efforts to implement and sustain a statewide major gift philanthropy program in Florida, with a focus on building relationships with high net worth supporters.
• Solicits major gifts, with a focus on six-figure and larger multi-year and outright gifts.
• Manages and ensures the success of major Florida-based fundraising events, including an annual dinner, parlor meetings and other events, which generate over $1 million annually.
• Serves as the Museum's most senior Florida-based professional and plays a critical role in the Museum's national strategy to engage donors who live in Florida on a seasonal basis by marshaling the efforts of the Museum's major gift officers based in other parts of the country. Works collaboratively to follow up with donors in their home and/or second home communities.
• Manages a portfolio of 125-150 prospects, and within two years, is expected to successfully reach and sustain a personal annual fundraising goal in excess of $2 million via a high-touch, relationship-based major gifts fundraising approach.
• Supervises a full-time Development Operations Manager and partners with and shares management oversight for a Washington, DC-based major gifts officer who is tasked with spending a significant amount of time cultivating and soliciting donors in Florida and other communities in the Southeast.

Minimum Qualifications for the role

• At least 10 years of successful experience as a major gift fundraiser, with a proven track record of personally soliciting and closing six-figure and higher annual, capital, and endowment fund gifts.
• Significant major gift experience in a sophisticated, complex environment (e.g., large cultural or educational organization).
• A strategist with experience managing people and relationships.
• Ambitious and bottom-line driven with the ability to reach aggressive fundraising goals.
• Experience in the Florida philanthropic community; knowledge of the broader region a plus.
• Proven ability to devise and execute new fundraising strategies, identify new prospect opportunities and cultivate them to fruition.
• Excellent written and verbal communications and strong interpersonal skills.
• Entrepreneurial, creative and able to execute on new ideas and motivate others to do the same.
• Proven record as a collaborative team player.
• A genuine commitment to the values, mission, and ideals of the Museum.
• Experience with budget management and financial spending oversight.
• Familiarity with Google Workspace/ MicroSoft Office or similar computer applications.

Preferred Qualifications for the role

• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Experience with relational fundraising databases is highly desirable.

Interested applicants must send their resume and cover letter; applications without a cover letter will not be considered.

The Museum is committed to cultivating and maintaining a culture of diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion (DEAI). Please click to view the Museum Statement on Diversity, Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion (PDF).

Benefits Highlights:

The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum values employee wellness, work-life balance and the diversity of what this means for individual employees in life and work. We are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package for benefits-eligible employees that includes generous paid leave benefits, health, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending accounts, a health savings account with an employer contribution, 403(b) retirement plan with a generous employer match and contribution, group term and supplemental life insurance, short and long-term disability, commuter subsidy, access to two employee assistance programs, as well as voluntary critical illness and accident insurance coverage, long-term care and pet insurance options. Our policies also support telework and other flexible schedule options based on the job, work and team collaboration requirements.