Job Description

Prospect Researcher

Mississauga, ON, Canada \xe2\x97\x8f Virtual Req #986

Tuesday, September 5, 2023

Are you looking for more than a job? At World Vision Canada we offer challenging careers that change the lives of children all over the world and it will change yours too. Come and be part of a team of 400 Canadians with a vision for the world: Life in all its fullness for every child.

You will experience Christian faith in action helping to make real and lasting change in the lives of the world\'s most vulnerable children. Join the World Vision Canada team and be part of a powerful and effective force for good:

For Children. For Change. For Life.

Position: Prospect Researcher

Reports to: Lead, Prospect Research

Position Term: Full Time Temporary

Primary Location: Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Workplace Type: Remote (Within Canada)

Job Purpose:

The Prospect Researcher is responsible for major gifts prospecting and research, database management, and pipeline development, including moves management, financial reporting, and analysis. This individual will ensure that all WVC Philanthropy fundraising teams are equipped with robust pipelines of well-researched Major Gifts, Corporate and Foundations prospects. Additionally, the Prospect Researcher will provide donor management support for Middle Donors and Church Engagement. Together with the Product Manager, Campaign Manager, and Director, Philanthropy Engagement, they will build and maintain a strong moves management system that continuously moves donors through the stages of the donor cycle while continuously conducting internal and external research to identify and allocate new HNW individuals, corporations, foundations and planned giving prospects to the Philanthropy teams\' pipelines. They will also provide strategic direction on the structure of CRM ensuring they are meeting the unique needs of all Philanthropy teams to create a best-practice customer service model.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Prospect, Research & Pipeline Development
• Proactively identifies new and high-level annual and campaign major gift leads and prospects through electronic alerts, analysis, screening information, data mining techniques, push technology, demographic searches, etc.
• Ensure Philanthropy Engagement advisor pipelines and portfolios are robust, contain strong viable prospects and are supported by a continual flow of newly identified and effectively rated prospective donors.
• Maintain the research intake system and ensure research deliverables are provided in a timely manner to fundraising teams to support fundraising and engagement strategies.
• Develop and synthesize information on prospects (including individuals, corporations, and foundations) to produce clear profiles/biographies of their background, inclination to give and capacity, giving history, and philanthropic interests.

Qualifications:

• The ideal candidate will have a university degree in research, information science, business, marketing, research, or other related field; Master of Library & Information Science is an asset.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in a fundraising environment with a heavy focus on prospect research, prospect management, database management, and fundraising operations.
• Excellent organizational, research, analytical, and reporting skills.
• Experience researching high net worth and families, companies, and foundations, and identifying their capacity, propensity, and affinity to the cause.
• Advanced computer skills and proficiency in organizational financial systems and relationship management and opportunity tracking systems. Competent in the use of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint); Dynamics 365 experience, a plus.
• Proficiency with prospect research tools and prospect rating systems such as, iWave, Grant Connect, Target Analytics, etc.
• Experience supporting a major capital campaign.
• Experience with Agile methodologies (e.g. scrum, Kanban, Retrospectives etc.) is an asset.
• Committed to excellent client service and professionalism.
• Demonstrated ability to handle matters of discretion, highly sensitive and confidential material and possess a high degree of integrity, with an understanding of relevant privacy legislation and ethical obligations under the Donor Bill of Rights and APRA/AFP\'s ethics and professional standards.
• Strong relational and teamwork skills with an ability to contribute to a dynamic team in a service-oriented, fast-paced environment, working proactively, collegially, and constructively with others, both within the team and across the organization, to foster a results-oriented and collaborative environment.
• Outstanding self-management skills to work independently, autonomously, take your own initiative and the ability to prioritize work and handle conflicting demands.
• Results and goal-focused with an ability to anticipate and identify needs of internal and external clients and proactively and creatively explore alternate approaches, identify issues, and seek solutions.

Why Consider Us?

• World Vision Canada has consistently been awarded Canada\'s and the GTA\'s top employers. Other awards granted are for financial transparency, marketing, customer service and for the work we do in the field.
• We are Canada\'s largest development, relief and advocacy non-profit.
• We embody an agile mindset here.
• We offer competitive pay and benefits. Our comprehensive health benefits start at day 1 which includes a Health Spending Account. We match pension contributions up to 6% and give up a top-up for pregnancy & parental leaves up to 25%.
• You get extra time off for restoration. We close for an additional day on long weekends, 6 times a year. You can get up to six weeks\' vacation, plus paid sick days, personal days & wellness days.
• We offer a family-friendly, caring, and flexible work environment.

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We bring life-saving support in times of disaster. We help poor communities to take charge of their futures. We provide small loans and training that boost family livelihoods. We work with policy makers to change the way the world is run. Our Christian faith teaches us that every child, regardless of gender, faith or race, is a precious gift to the entire world - and that their wellbeing concerns us all. We shall never rest while children suffer in situations that can be changed.

Our Core Values: We are committed to the Poor. We are Christian. We are Stewards. We value People. We are Partners. We are Responsive.

Qualified candidates must be able to demonstrate a commitment to the core values and mission of the World Vision partnership.

World Vision Canada takes our Safeguarding responsibilities seriously and we provide an environment that is safe for our child and adult beneficiaries. We have strong recruitment procedures to make sure the safest and most suitable people work with the children in our programs. We provide our staff and volunteers with ongoing supervision, support and training in their work with child and adult beneficiaries.

World Vision Canada welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Thank you for your interest; however only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.

Other details

• Job Family Resource Development & Fundraising
• Job Function Individual Contributor
• Pay Type Salary
• Employment Indicator Fully Remote

• Mississauga, ON, Canada
• Virtual

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