Prospect Researcher, Philanthropy Operations

Position:                         Prospect Researcher, Philanthropy Operations

Reports to:                    Head, Prospect Research and Data

Position Term:            Full Time Temporary until May 2025

Primary Location:     Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Workplace Type:       Remote (Within Canada)

Job Purpose:

The Prospect Researcher, Philanthropy Operations is responsible for major gifts prospect & research, database management, and pipeline development including moves management, financial reporting and analysis, and gift processing.

Working with the Head, Prospect Research and Data, you will help ensure that all World Vision Canada Philanthropy market-facing teams are equipped with robust pipelines of well-researched Major Gifts, Corporate and Foundations prospects.

Additionally, you will provide donor management support for Middle Donors and Church Engagement.

Together with the Head, Prospect Research and Data, you will build and maintain a strong moves management system that continuously moves donors through the stages of the donor cycle while continuously conducting internal and external research to identify and allocate new HNW individuals, corporations, foundations and planned giving prospects to the Philanthropy teams’ pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Ensure middle and major giving (B2C) advisor pipelines and portfolios are robust, contain strong viable prospects and are supported by a continual flow of newly identified and effectively rated prospective donors
• Together with the Director of Philanthropy (B2C), design, develop and implement policies, procedures and systems for effective moves management of donor opportunities including moving donors between teams (e.g. routine cross-functional pipeline meetings)
• Ensure strong prospect identification systems and tools are in place and utilized effectively including relationship mapping and work collaboratively with our Data Analytics & Insights team for predictive models 
• Maintain the research intake system and ensure research deliverables are provided in a timely manner to fundraising teams to support fundraising & engagement strategies

• Processing and recording of Donor Advised Funds and ensuring timely reporting and acknowledgement of completed gifts

Qualifications:

• Post-secondary education in a relevant field, such as fundraising, analytics or information systems

• Minimum 5-8 years of professional experience in a fundraising environment with a heavy focus on prospect research, database management, information systems/services and fundraising operations
• Extensive knowledge of and experience with prospect research tools and prospect rating systems such as iWave, Grant Connect, Target Analytics.
• Experience supporting a major capital campaign
• Experience overseeing Prospect Research and moves management processes
• Strong technology skills and computer literacy is essential, including knowledge of Microsoft CRM, Raiser’s Edge or other fundraising or CRM systems.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. scrum, Kanban, Retrospectives etc.)
• Advanced computer skills and proficiency in organizational financial systems and relationship management and opportunity tracking systems; good grasp of data architecture for large enterprise; Dynamics 365 experience a plus
• Strong relational and teamwork skills with ability to contribute to a dynamic team in a service-oriented, fast-paced environment, working proactively, collegially, and constructively with other managers, both within the team and across the organization, to foster a results-oriented, collaborative environment
• Ability to be adaptive and work in a complex and ever-changing environment
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and exercise considerable judgment, tact, and discretion while working with sensitive and confidential information

Why Consider Us?

• World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada and GTA top employer awards.
• We are Canada’s largest development, relief, and advocacy non-profit organization.
• We embody an Agile mindset here.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits. Our comprehensive health benefits start at day 1 which includes a Health Spending Account.
• We offer extra time off for restoration by closing for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year.
• We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.

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