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Title

Head of Community Giving, Wikimedia Foundation [CLOSED]

Purpose

As head of community giving, your job is to execute the Wikimedia Foundation's community gifts strategy in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. This position reports to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer.

Summary

This position will execute the community giving strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. This is a critical role: 96% of the Foundation's revenue is derived from individual donations.

Responsibilities

Optimize and maintain the Wikimedia Foundation's single largest revenue source, its online donation pages;
Develop and implement strategy to solicit recurring donations;
Develop other donation streams, such as corporate matching programs, blog campaigns, social networking campaigns;
Develop and maintain communications with donors and prospective donors, including on-site messaging, newsletters, blog entries, etc.
Achieve annual financial targets, as established during the financial planning process.

Required qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; advanced degree preferred
The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of work experience, including some fundraising experience; however we will also consider applications from people with backgrounds that include usability and user interface/interaction design, and/or website project management
Good general understanding of donation streams including emerging trends
Mission-driven non-profit or open source / free culture experience
Excellent writing skills including the ability to explain, summarize, persuade and motivate
Experience with A/B testing, website usability testing and/or market research
Ability to evaluate, analyze and prioritize; self-motivated and independent
Good technical literacy from a user perspective: able to search a database and use various tools such as wikis, groups and blogging software, good general understanding of how websites are designed and constructed
The ability to speak multiple languages is a major plus;
Experience living or working outside the United States is a major plus.

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-Head of Community Giving, Wikimedia Foundation
+Head of Community Giving, Wikimedia Foundation <font color="red">[CLOSED]</font>
-'''JOB PURPOSE'''
+;Purpose
 As head of community giving, your job is to execute the Wikimedia
 Foundation's community gifts strategy in the context of its overall
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 Financial and Operating Officer.
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-'''JOB SUMMARY'''
 This position will execute the community giving strategy for the
 Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its overall mission, vision,
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 revenue is derived from individual donations.
-Responsibilities:
+;Responsibilities
 *Optimize and maintain the Wikimedia Foundation's single largest revenue source, its online donation pages;
 *Develop and implement strategy to solicit recurring donations;
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 *Achieve annual financial targets, as established during the financial planning process.
+;Required qualifications
-'''REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS'''
 *Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; advanced degree preferred
 *The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of work experience, including some fundraising experience; however we will also consider applications from people with backgrounds that include usability and user interface/interaction design, and/or website project management
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 *Experience living or working outside the United States is a major plus.
+{{Job openings footer
-'''ABOUT WMF'''
+|date=May 15, 2008
+|title=Community Giving
-The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable corporation.
+|more=In your cover letter, please lay out some opening thoughts about how, in your view, the Foundation might best implement a community giving strategy.
-It is fully audited and has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United
+}}
-States. The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and
+[[Category:Job Descriptions|{{SUBPAGENAME}}]]
-engage people around the world to collect and develop educational
+[[Category:English]]
-content under a free license or in the public domain, and to
-disseminate it effectively and globally. The Wikimedia Foundation
-operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects
-in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 10 most-visited websites
-in the world.
-'''JOB TITLE'''
-Head of Major Gifts, Wikimedia Foundation
-(Also advertised as: Major Gifts Officer)
-'''JOB PURPOSE'''
-As head of major gifts development, your job is to execute the Wikimedia Foundation's major gifts strategy in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. This position reports to the Chief Financial and Operating Officer.
-'''JOB SUMMARY'''
-This position will execute the major gifts strategy for the Wikimedia Foundation in the context of its overall mission, vision, values and goals. This is a critical role: 96% of the Foundation’s revenue is derived from individual donations, and a large proportion of that is derived from major gifts.
-Responsibilities:
-* Identify and develop major gift prospects; own and maintain the major gift prospect pipeline
-* Personally develop some relationships, and be responsible for overseeing the development of others
-* Personally ask for donations, and act as a coach and supporter for others in the organization doing the same
-* Develop and execute cultivation strategies and tactics
-* Create and maintain an array of support materials
-* Achieve annual financial targets, as established during the financial planning process
-'''REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS'''
-* Bachelor's degree or equivalent required; advanced degree preferred
-* 7+ years of major gifts experience, preferably in a well-known organization that is active internationally;
-* Excellent interpersonal communication skills including the ability to persuade, inspire and negotiate with a diverse array of people, primarily verbally
-* Confident, flexible and outgoing personal style
-* Experience creating and delivering presentations
-* Good knowledge of donor pools, trends in giving, prospect research, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship;
-* Experience with venture philanthropy and/or philanthropy in the technology, education and media sectors, and/or in the Bay Area is helpful;
-* Comfortable and proficient using a variety of communications and networking tools (e.g., mailing lists, IM, IRC, wikis, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.);
-* The ability to speak multiple languages is a major plus;
-* Experience living or working outside the United States is a major plus.
-'''ABOUT WMF'''
-The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. is a nonprofit charitable corporation. It is fully audited and has 501(c)(3) tax exempt status in the United States. The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally. The Wikimedia Foundation operates some of the largest collaboratively edited reference projects in the world, including Wikipedia, one of the 10 most-visited websites in the world.
-'''TO APPLY'''
-'''Please send a CV and cover letter to jobs@wikimedia.org, before May 15, 2008.  Please put “Community Giving” in your subjectline.'''
-'''In your cover letter, please lay out some opening thoughts about how, in your view, the Foundation might best implement a community giving strategy. Please also be aware that applications which do not include a cover letter will not be considered.'''
-'''Please copy and paste the text of your CV into the e-mail, in addition to attaching the file.'''
-'''Due to the volume of applications we receive, we regret that only people selected for an interview will be contacted. Regardless of whether you are interviewed, we thank you for your application.'''
-'''This position is based in our San Francisco headquarters. If you are not currently living in the San Francisco Bay Area, please make that clear in your cover letter.'''