Major Donors Coordinator

Days tend to mix prospect research, donor briefings, event coordination, and the steady support of gift officers' calendars. You're often the operational engine beneath the major-gifts officers who carry visible portfolios. Briefing memos, donor profiles, and event run-of-show are recurring deliverables.

The harder part is often the volume of small touches that shape major-donor experience — a misspelled name in a briefing memo, a wrong dietary preference at a dinner, a poorly-staged tour all erode the cultivation work. Variance across employers is wide: at universities and major nonprofits the work is structured with specialty teams; at smaller organizations you may also handle gift entry and stewardship.

Coordinators who thrive tend to carry organizational discipline and warmth toward donors. CFRE eligibility builds across years. The trade-off is the back-office positioning — the credit flows to officers closing gifts, while the operational support runs in the background.