We are seeking a Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations to join our development team. As a Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, you will serve as the enterprise leader for corporate and foundation philanthropy across Buckner International and its subsidiaries. This role executes multiyear fundraising strategies, manages the organization’s most complex and high-value funder relationships with foundations, and advises executive leadership on revenue growth, risk, and opportunity. Through data-driven decision-making, cross-functional collaboration, and external leadership, the Director drives sustainable corporate and foundation revenue that advances Buckner’s mission and long-term priorities, totaling $1.5MM+ annually. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What You’ll Do
As a member of our team, you will have an impact on our clients through the accomplishment of the following responsibilities:

• Serve as the enterprise lead for corporate and foundation relations across Buckner International and its subsidiaries. Own strategy for application, stewardship, execution, and results.
• Partner with the VP and CDO to set multi-year revenue strategies for corporate and foundation philanthropy aligned with organizational priorities in mind.
• Establish and be accountable for annual and multiyear revenue goals for corporate and foundation giving. Monitor progress and adjust strategy based on performance and market conditions.
• Lead the design, execution, and continuous improvement of a comprehensive foundation fundraising strategy, including annual, capital, and special initiatives.
• Serve as an organizational expert on foundation philanthropy trends, funding vehicles, compliance requirements, and competitive positioning.
• Advise the CEO, CDO, VP of Development, and senior leaders on high-value corporate and foundation relationships, including strategy for top-tier funders and complex or high-risk opportunities.
• Establish performance measures and dashboards to evaluate effectiveness, return on investment, and pipeline health. Present insights to VP, CDO, and CEO when important.
• Oversee foundation prospecting, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies across the organization with a focus on DFW.
• Personally manage a portfolio of the organization’s highest value and most complex corporate and foundation relationships at the major and principal level, primarily in DFW.
• Lead cross functional collaboration with program, finance, marketing, and operations teams to align funding strategies with organizational priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Ensure the development of compelling, high impact proposals, agreements, and reports that reflect Buckner’s mission, outcomes, and strategic priorities.
• Serve as a senior leader in campaign planning and execution, including feasibility analysis and solicitation strategy for lead corporate and foundation gifts.
• Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations, ethical standards, and organizational policies related to corporate and foundation fundraising.
• Oversee budgets and resource allocation for corporate and foundation fundraising initiatives to ensure cost effectiveness and strong financial stewardship.
• Leverage and engage Board members, executive leadership, and senior volunteers in high level cultivation and solicitation efforts when appropriate.
• Represent Buckner externally with senior executives at corporations, foundations, and philanthropic partners to advance long term strategic relationships.
• Drive innovation in corporate and foundation partnerships, including multiyear commitments, strategic alliances, and complex funding structures.
• Ensure accurate, timely, and strategic use of CRM systems (Virtuous) and reporting tools to support executive decision making and organizational transparency.

What You’ll Bring to the Team
To be successful in this role and a great addition to our team, we need you to come with the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field required. 10+years proven experience required in the qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of donors and prospective donors.
• Requires experience in working with necessary parties to develop and refine content for case necessary to support solicitations.
• Requires proven successful experience in identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and sustaining donor relationships.
• Current certification as a Certified Fundraising Executive preferred.
• Requires proficient working knowledge and experience in proposal writing, knowledge of foundation grant writing processes.
• Requires proficient working knowledge of donor development, fundraising and public relations laws and regulations governing agency and employees.
• Requires in-depth ability to plan, administer, and report budgets.
• Requires ability to provide strategic and logistical planning and facilitate meetings. Requires ability to organize complex tasks and plans and to be detail oriented.
• Requires ability to speak clearly and make self-understood effectively in face-to-face interactions; articulate with accuracy to speak on the phone; ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing and speak in front of groups.
• Requires recognized ability to meet multiple deadlines by maintaining a high level of organization.
• Requires demonstrated strong analytical skills, including an ability to synthesize large amounts of information and to focus quickly on the essence of an issue; strong commitment to producing measurable results. Strong business acumen required.
• Requires ability to function in a fast-paced, high volume, multi-faced, results-oriented work environment and to analyze issues, identify priorities, manage projects, and make decisions expeditiously.
• Requires experience developing, directing, and managing multiple projects and implementing strategic program goals.
• Requires bias for fact-based decision making and action-oriented project management practices.
• Ability to minimize risk to the company and remove obstacles required.
• Excellent presentation and influencing skills.
• Requires recognition that the organization is a faith-based organization operating with a commitment to Christian principles.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job. 

We are seeking a Development Officer, Church Engagement to join our team committed to creating outstanding partnerships with our community. As a Development Officer, Church Engagement you will play an important role in developing, maintaining, and expanding strategic relationships between Buckner International and assigned churches, nonprofit organizations, and individuals. Knowledge of the Northeast Texas and Houston regions would be preferred. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What you'll do:

• Manage an assigned portfolio of churches and entities primarily for the purposes of fundraising as well as partnering in the various aspects of Buckner. These entities include but are not limited to colleges/universities, religious associations and denominations, and other Christian non-profits.
• Develop, track, and implement engagement strategies for churches and non-profits in an assigned portfolio. This includes identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding relationships (including performing moves management) with churches, pastors, and key ministry leaders.
• Prepare and present appropriate written Funding Proposals that assist Buckner Development in reaching its annual fundraising goals.
• Connect with churches and non-profits in a consistent and strategic manner and deepen relationships.
• Promote and encourage churches and non-profits to participate in Buckner Volunteer Engagement and Buckner Missions opportunities both domestically and internationally.
• Identify individuals within churches and non-profits who have an affinity for Buckner and the estimated ability to support Buckner philanthropically and introduce them to the appropriate Development Gift Officer.
• Consistently increase in understanding of Buckner Children and Family Services (BCFS) and Buckner Retirement Services (BRS) service offerings in detail to effectively communicate the value added for churches, denominations, non-profits and networks.
• Collaborate across departmental lines and Regions to effectively engage churches and non-profits.
• Report and record all engagement activity with churches and non-profits in Buckner’s CRM. This includes telephone calls, emails, correspondence, and personal visits.
• Speak to groups, churches, organizations, networks, non-profits, and other related groups both domestically and internationally about the ministries of Buckner.
• Cultivate and monitor relationships with outside service providers, consultants, agencies, non-profits and organizations to develop relationships domestically and internationally to enhance the delivery of services to clients.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed to monitor, assess, and help develop relationships with donors, churches, and ministry organizations.

 What you’ll bring:

• The ability to successfully identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors and donor prospects in the assigned area for all Buckner ministries and programs.
• A bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• A minimum of 1 years of prior related experience is required in building and sustaining relationships with constituents engaged with an organization.
• Requires 1 or more years of demonstrable experience in major gift work or church engagement work where relationships and/or individual efforts resulted in more than $300,000 of funds consistently on an annual basis.
• Prior experience preparing and presenting project proposals and prefers candidates that have worked in collaborative environments or initiatives thereby demonstrating they are able to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate within various stakeholders to meet fundraising goals.
• Strong sense of diplomacy and demonstrated success in developing strong collaborative relationships with organizational peers and outside colleagues.
• Poven successful experience in identifying, cultivating, and sustaining relationships that lead to financial or other contributions to an organization.
• Strong communication skills including but not limited to negotiation, influence and consensus building in order to interface with employees at all levels within the organization as well as external vendors and agencies. This includes proficient ability to speak, read and write English.
• Experience in developing, directing, and managing multiple projects, as well as implementing strategic program goals.
• Recognition that the organization is a faith-based organization operating with a commitment to Christian principles.

 The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job. 

We are seeking a Senior Gift Officer to join our development team. As a Senior Gift Officer, qualifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards donors and donor prospects capable of making commitments in the assigned region for all ministries and programs of Buckner International. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What You’ll Do
As a member of our team, you will have an impact on our clients through the accomplishment of the following responsibilities:

• Design and implement strategies to build out a robust pipeline of donors to support Buckner Retirement Services benevolent care and chaplaincy programs, supporting the $2MM+ Buckner Retirement Center Philanthropic need.
• Cultivate current donors and work within the BRS communities to develop new relationships who have the potential to support at the Major Gift level.
• Work with Buckner Stewardship and Communications teams to refine materials focused on communicating the need for benevolent care and chaplaincy programs.
• Work alongside BRS community leadership to introduce Buckner benevolent care and chaplaincy programs to new and existing residents.
• Work with grants team to develop tracking and reporting metrics for number of seniors receiving care across the organization and in each community.
• Refine current communication strategies and case for support documents for each individual levels of giving across the organization – Mass, Mid-Rising, Major, Corporate and Foundation giving; to include specific donor impact and statistics.
• Work with the Church Engagement team at Buckner to develop appropriate strategies to engage church support for Buckner Retirement Services, especially around chaplaincy programs.
• With stewardship, develop a regular cadence of expressing gratitude, impact and real-world outcomes, as well as the ongoing need for support.
• Work with BRS community leaders and Dev. Operations to include residents in the Impact Advancement CRM system and work with Mass Comm to develop communication strategies with those residents.
• Collaborate to host Planned Giving and other relevant activities at the retirement communities.
• When possible, involve resident family members in the conversation about Buckner Retirement Services senior care programs.
• Experience with giving societies of donors who support Senior Care and Assistance desired.
• Develop and manage a strategic donor pipeline specific to Buckner Retirement Services.
• Cultivate and steward both current and prospective donors, with an intentional focus on entry level giving and long term relationship development.
• Develop and execute a phased engagement strategy for Mass, Major, and Corporate and Foundation donors.
• Ensure consistent communication of program impact and funding needs, including timely and appropriate donor acknowledgment.
• Collaborate with BRS community leadership to engage resident families through targeted events and experiences, including a family weekend.

What You’ll Bring to the Team
To be successful in this role and a great addition to our team we need you to come with the following:

• Requires ability to successfully identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit and steward major donors and major donor prospects in the assigned area for all ministries and programs of Buckner.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
• Minimum 5-8 years prior related proven experience required in building and sustaining relationships with constituents that are engaged with an organization.
• Requires prior related experience working with necessary parties to develop and refine content for case necessary to support solicitations.
• Requires proven successful experience in identifying, cultivating and sustaining relationships that lead to financial or other contributions to an organization.
• Current certification as a Certified Fund Raising Executive preferred.
• Requires proficient working knowledge and experience in proposal writing and knowledge of foundation grant writing processes.
• Proficient working knowledge of donor development, fundraising and public relations laws and regulations governing agency and employees required.
• Requires proficient ability to speak, read and write English.
• Requires ability to provide strategic and logistical planning and facilitate meetings. Requires ability to organize complex tasks and plans and to be detail oriented.
• Requires ability to speak clearly and make self understood effectively in face to face interactions; articulate with accuracy to speak on the phone; ability to effectively communicate both orally and in writing and speak in front of groups.
• Requires recognized ability to meet multiple deadlines by maintaining a high level of organization.
• Requires demonstrated strong analytical skills, including an ability to synthesize large amounts of information and to focus quickly on the essence of an issue; strong commitment to producing measurable results. Strong business acumen required.
• Requires ability to function in a fast-paced, high volume, multi-faced, results-oriented work environment and to analyze issues, identify priorities, manage projects and make decisions expeditiously.
• Requires experience developing, directing and managing multiple projects and implementing strategic program goals.
• Requires bias for fact-based decision making and action-oriented project management practices.
• Ability to minimize risk to the company and remove obstacles required.
• Excellent presentation and influencing skills.
• Requires recognition that the organization is a faith-based organization operating with a commitment to Christian principles

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job. 

We are seeking a Senior Gift Officer to join our development team. As a Senior Gift Officer, qualifies, cultivates, solicits, and stewards donors and donor prospects capable of making commitments in the assigned region for all ministries and programs of Buckner International. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What You’ll Do
As a member of our team, you will have an impact on our clients through the accomplishment of the following responsibilities:

• Manage a donor development portfolio of individuals, churches, foundations, and other organizations, both donor and donor prospects.
• Develop and implement an annual development plan for donors and donor prospects assigned to the Gift Officer portfolio to identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward.
• Support the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of donors for capital fund drives and other organizational campaigns as assigned.
• Fully utilize tools and resources of Buckner to establish cultivation strategies and conduct calls and visits with individuals, foundations, churches and corporations, with Buckner staff or individually, to promote Buckner and its program needs.
• Make qualification calls and visits to individuals, corporations, churches, foundations and other organizations for the purpose of identifying and then cultivating relationships that could lead to donations to Buckner ministries.
• Prepare written proposals to support direct solicitations.
• Support Buckner events and activities in assigned geographical areas and travel to visit donors and prospects as necessary
• Utilize, as appropriate, program staff and Executive Directors in the identification, cultivation and solicitation of prospects/donors.
• Utilize Buckner International Board Members and Buckner Development Council Members and other volunteers in the cultivation and solicitation of donors and donor prospects.
• Championing a greater understanding and awareness of Buckner’s mission and ministry among donors/prospects by intentionally managing relationships internally and externally.

What You’ll Bring to the Team
To be successful in this role and a great addition to our team we need you to come with the following:

• The ability to successfully identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors and donor prospects in the assigned area for all Buckner ministries and programs. A bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• Minimum of  5 to 8 years prior related experience in building and sustaining relationships with constituents engaged with an organization.
• Requires prior related experience working with necessary parties to develop and refine content for solicitations.
• Requires proven successful experience in identifying, cultivating, and sustaining relationships that lead to financial or other contributions to an organization.
• Current certification as a Certified Fund Raising Executive is preferred.
• Requires proficient working knowledge and experience in proposal writing, as well as knowledge of foundation grant writing processes. 
• Proficient working knowledge of donor development, fundraising, and public relations laws and regulations governing agencies and employees.

The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job. 

We are seeking a Development Officer, Church Engagement to join our team committed to creating outstanding partnerships with our community. As a Development Officer, Church Engagement you will play an important role in developing, maintaining, and expanding strategic relationships between Buckner International and assigned churches, nonprofit organizations, and individuals. Experience in fundraising in Houston, TX area required. Join our team and shine hope in the lives of others! 

What you'll do:

• Manage an assigned portfolio of churches and entities primarily for the purposes of fundraising as well as partnering in the various aspects of Buckner. These entities include but are not limited to colleges/universities, religious associations and denominations, and other Christian non-profits.
• Develop, track, and implement engagement strategies for churches and non-profits in an assigned portfolio. This includes identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding relationships (including performing moves management) with churches, pastors, and key ministry leaders.
• Prepare and present appropriate written Funding Proposals that assist Buckner Development in reaching its annual fundraising goals.
• Connect with churches and non-profits in a consistent and strategic manner and deepen relationships.
• Promote and encourage churches and non-profits to participate in Buckner Volunteer Engagement and Buckner Missions opportunities both domestically and internationally.
• Identify individuals within churches and non-profits who have an affinity for Buckner and the estimated ability to support Buckner philanthropically and introduce them to the appropriate Development Gift Officer.
• Consistently increase in understanding of Buckner Children and Family Services (BCFS) and Buckner Retirement Services (BRS) service offerings in detail to effectively communicate the value added for churches, denominations, non-profits and networks.
• Collaborate across departmental lines and Regions to effectively engage churches and non-profits.
• Report and record all engagement activity with churches and non-profits in Buckner’s CRM. This includes telephone calls, emails, correspondence, and personal visits.
• Speak to groups, churches, organizations, networks, non-profits, and other related groups both domestically and internationally about the ministries of Buckner.
• Cultivate and monitor relationships with outside service providers, consultants, agencies, non-profits and organizations to develop relationships domestically and internationally to enhance the delivery of services to clients.
• Travel domestically and internationally as needed to monitor, assess, and help develop relationships with donors, churches, and ministry organizations.

 What you’ll bring:

• The ability to successfully identify, qualify, cultivate, solicit, and steward donors and donor prospects in the assigned area for all Buckner ministries and programs.
• A bachelor’s degree in a related field is required.
• A minimum of 1 years of prior related experience is required in building and sustaining relationships with constituents engaged with an organization.
• Requires 1 or more years of demonstrable experience in major gift work or church engagement work where relationships and/or individual efforts resulted in more than $300,000 of funds consistently on an annual basis.
• Prior experience preparing and presenting project proposals and prefers candidates that have worked in collaborative environments or initiatives thereby demonstrating they are able to communicate, coordinate, and collaborate within various stakeholders to meet fundraising goals.
• Strong sense of diplomacy and demonstrated success in developing strong collaborative relationships with organizational peers and outside colleagues.
• Poven successful experience in identifying, cultivating, and sustaining relationships that lead to financial or other contributions to an organization.
• Strong communication skills including but not limited to negotiation, influence and consensus building in order to interface with employees at all levels within the organization as well as external vendors and agencies. This includes proficient ability to speak, read and write English.
• Experience in developing, directing, and managing multiple projects, as well as implementing strategic program goals.
• Recognition that the organization is a faith-based organization operating with a commitment to Christian principles.

 The above description reflects the details considered necessary to describe the essential functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be performed in the job.