Population Connection/Population Connection Action Fund seeks a Planned Giving Officer to join its Development team. The PGO will work with the Director of Planned Giving to continue growing our planned giving program and will contribute toward stewarding our ZPG Society of legacy donors, which currently stands at 650 members. The PGO will work closely with other members of the Development, Marketing, and Membership teams.
The PGO will be responsible for qualifying new planned giving prospects and for building relationships between donors and Population Connection/Population Connection Action Fund. The PGO will spend a significant amount of time interacting with donors, whether by phone, email, or personal letter. The right candidate should feel comfortable working independently, managing multiple projects simultaneously, and communicating personally with donors and prospects.
We welcome experienced development officers who have strong interpersonal skills and an interest in deepening their planned giving knowledge and skills.
The primary role for the PGO will be to cultivate, solicit, and steward ZPG Society prospects and members and to help grow Population Connection’s planned giving program. Duties would include:
Population Connection will provide a salary commensurate with experience. Benefits include a generous annual leave plan, paid holidays, medical, dental, and vision insurance, short-term disability, and a 401K retirement account with matching funds available. A professional development budget of $2,000 a year will be provided to support continuing education.
This is a full-time remote position. Our headquarters are based in Washington, DC. Local candidates may choose to work from the office if desired. Relocation benefits will not be provided.
Please email the following documents to Shauna Scherer, Senior Vice President for Advancement, at shauna@popconnect.org. Please reference Planned Giving Officer in your subject line. Within your cover letter, please discuss how your past experience and achievements will lead to success in planned giving for Population Connection.
Population Connection Action Fund provides for a fair and equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, familial status, disability, or genetic information, in compliance with applicable federal, state, and local law. Population Connection Action Fund hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
Population Connection Action Fund reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to receive equal employment opportunity and/or perform the essential functions of the job, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship to the organization. This applies to all applicants and staff members.
Population Connection Action Fund also provides a work environment in which each staff member is able to be productive and work to the best of their ability. We do not condone or tolerate an atmosphere of intimidation or harassment. We expect and require the cooperation of all staff members in maintaining an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment with mutual respect by and for all employees and applicants.
Population Connection Action Fund is committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, inventiveness, innovation, self-expression, unique capabilities, and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our reputation and organization’s achievement as well.
We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique.
Population Connection Action Fund’s diversity initiatives are applicable—but not limited—to our practices and policies on recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, professional development and training, promotions, transfers between departments, social and recreational programs, layoffs, terminations, and the ongoing development of a work environment built on the premise of gender and diversity equity that encourages and enforces:
All employees of Population Connection Action Fund have a responsibility to treat others with dignity and respect at all times. All employees are expected to exhibit conduct that reflects inclusion during work, at work functions on or off the work site, and at all other organization-sponsored and participative events.
