Wisconsin Watch is looking for the Southeast Wisconsin Philanthropy Officer

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Wisconsin Watch is looking for an imaginative and ambitious philanthropy officer to support our work for the development of funds in the southeast of Wisconsin and in the Milwaukee area.

The philanthropy officer will be a key member of the philanthropy team and will be responsible for the cultivation and expansion of our non -profit support. This role will concentrate on the donor cultivation and the cultivation of a regionally based portfolio. The right candidate will be effective when drawing up and maintaining relationships with individual donors, foundations and corporate foundations as well as working with the philanthropy team to donate campaigns and stewardship events. The philanthropy officer will play a crucial role in ensuring that our organization can continue to produce excellent impartial, solution-oriented journalism that strengthens the communities we serve.

Duties and responsibilities

• Relationship and portfolio development:
  • Create and manage a regionally based portfolio of donors.
  • Psusition identification: Explore and identify potential large donors who have a passion for our work and have the ability to make significant gifts.
  • Relationship structure: Work with the director of the philanthropy, CEO and Milwaukee NNS Executive Director to create Funder Outreach, write personalized communication and carry out personal meetings. Steward dispenser and relationships maintain.
  • Gifting claim: Touch qualified donors to offer gifts and effectively formulate the effects of our work and how it overlaps with the donors' passions.
  • Work internally with business and editorial employees to create sensible donor interactions and suggestions.
  • Act as ambassadors in Southeasters Wisc0nsin and visit relevant events in the community and networking opportunities.
  • Fulfill established donations to support organizational needs.

• Systems:
  • Keep the best -practical standards when it comes to records, including the logging of contact reports on the donor database/CRM.
  • Work with the Associate Director of Philanthropy to analyze weekly gift reports that adapt confirmation copy and route letters for permits and signatures.
  • Design for confirmation letter templates and update/update content on a semi -annual basis.
  • Work with the business team in database guidelines and best practice in the recording.

• Other tasks:
  • Follow important initiatives, monitor the deadlines and coordinate the teams to ensure the timely execution of goals.
  • Carry out other important donor/development activities (ie Tours, public speech or speaker activities).
  • Work with the Philanthropy team for the execution of Stewardship Event.
  • Serve as an ambassador/spokesman for the community if necessary.
  • Support the development and writing of proposals and grant as required.

Qualifications

• Excels at Relationship Building and Connecting Impact-controlled missions with individual passions.
• Has experience with high-touch fundraising and gift offer.
• Shows the desire to work with culturally different populations with a compassionate, collaborative and respectful approach.
• Responsible, tactful and professional, has a relationship -oriented way of thinking.
• Thrives in high -pressure environments and remains adapted when the priorities change.
• Demonstrates a proactive, creative, problem -solving way of thinking with a focus on results. Shows an obligation to search for solutions and opportunities for cooperation.
• Is highly organized, detailed and able to juggle several priorities.
• Is known and comfortable with various technologies, from Google Workspace (leaves, documents, etc.) and CRMS to social platforms to ensure that the tasks and communication are smoothly executed across different tools.

Preferred qualifications:

• Over 5 years of experience in non -profit fundraising, stewardship, donor relationships, project management and/or in a related area.
• Competence in Google Suite, MS Office, Word, Excel and Outlook.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Passion for journalism, local news, media and/or civic engagement.

Location: The philanthropy officer is located in the southeast of Wisconsin, preferably in the Milwaukee area.

Status, content and advantages:

• Full time, hybrid position.
• Salary: 60,000 – 80,000 US dollars. The final salary offer is carefully taken into account, including previous experience, specialist knowledge and location.
• 5 weeks of vacation, contribution contribution, paid days of illness, paid family and care holidays, subsidized medical and dental premiums, vision cover and much more.

Term: Applications are accepted until the position is filled. For the best consideration, apply until May 30, 2025.

To apply: Please send your curriculum vitae in this application form and answer each of these three questions in 50 words or less.

• Why are you interested in our team?
• Why are you qualified for this role?
• Is there anything else that we should know about them?

If you want to talk about the job before applying, contact Anna January at ajanuary@wisconsinwatch.org.

Wisconsin Watch is devoted to improving our newsroom by better reflecting the people we cover. We undertake the diversity and the establishment of an integrative environment for people of all backgrounds and age groups. In particular, we encourage members of traditionally underrepresented communities to apply, including women, people with colors, LGBTQ+ people and people with disabilities. We are an employer for equal opportunities and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are made regardless of breed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age or another law protected according to applicable law.

About Wisconsin Watch and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service

Wisconsin Watch was founded in 2009 and is a non -profit news organization that is dedicated to the production of impartial journalism, which provides the communities of Wisconsin Stark, informs and connected. We believe that access to local representative news for healthy democracy is crucial and to find solutions to the most urgent problems of everyday life. As part of Wisconsin Watch's roof, we have three independent news departments, a nationwide investigative newsroom, a regional cooperation in the northeast of Wisconsin named New News Lab, and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS). All three departments keep their unique reporting areas and are positioned together to grow and serve our communities with greater efficiency and effects.

NNS was founded in 2011 as a missionary newsroom, in which Milwaukees Central City district reports and celebrates, in particular the city's black and latinx communities. Through the reporting of NNS, the website, the e-newsletters and the news414 SMS service, we treat the normal people who do extraordinary things that connect readers with resources and serve as a watchdog for our audience. NNS, formerly part of Marquette University, and Wisconsin Watch have a long history of cooperation. In 2024, NNS moved his administrative house and merged under the roof Wisconsin Watch. Together, the nationwide team of Wisconsin Watch and the reporters from NNS work together to produce nationwide investigative stories and at the same time emphasize topics that affect the communities in Milwaukee.