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PLANNED GIVING CONSULTANT

Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking highly-qualified applicants for the position of Planned Giving Consultant to facilitate the expansion of the organization’s nascent planned giving program. The consultant will serve as a front line fundraiser for planned giving donors and prospects, and provide planned giving training to other fundraising staff. Key deliverables for this consultancy will include developing our bequest marketing program and integrating planned giving into major donor strategies.

Consultancy Terms:

1. Enhance HRW’s bequest marketing program

  • Develop and execute strategies to increase the number of known bequests to approximately 20 gifts annually
  • Develop projection methodologies
  • Advise HRW’s marketing and direct-mail programs on the best target markets, frequency of mailings, and communication content
  • Refine tracking processes in Raiser’s Edge database to enable more targeted planned giving prospecting outreach and legacy society cultivation

2. Create Board education and major donor strategy plan

  • Determine the best education and outreach plan for the Board of Directors and major donors about planned giving
  • Draft strategy memos for 15 best Board that outline individual recommended plans
  • Work with the Director of Development and other staff to implement above plans
  • Brief and/or join staff for individual Board cultivation and solicitation meetings

3. Offer in-house staff trainings

  • Provide planned giving trainings to development and executive staff and key volunteers
  • Serve as a resource for staff inquiries about planned giving strategy and vehicles
  • Join development staff as needed for individual planned giving cultivation and solicitation meetings

4. Develop planned giving legacy society

  • Create and document planned giving recognition strategies and policies
  • Work with marketing staff to create newsletters and other programming for our planned giving legacy society

5. Evaluate additional planned giving vehicles

  • Assess steps needed for Human Rights Watch to promote and facilitate other planned giving vehicles, such as charitable trusts and gift annuities, and draft brief report with recommendations to senior Development staff

Contract Duration: 12 months (beginning on or around July 1, 2012)

Qualifications:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field is required. An advanced (graduate) degree is a plus.

Experience: Minimum five years of experience in the planned giving field is required.

Fee: To be determined

PLEASE APPLY IMMEDIATELYby emailing in a single submission: a letter of interest describing your experience, your resume, consulting rate, names or letters of reference, and a brief writing sample (unedited by others)no later than June 7, 2012 todevjobs@hrw.org. Please use “Planned Giving Consultant” as the subject of your email.

Only complete applications will be reviewed.

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