Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management

Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management

Location Portland, OR 97211 Date Posted September 03, 2026 Job ID 15474 Employment Type Direct Hire

Scion Nonprofit Staffing has been engaged to conduct an immediate search for a Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management on behalf of Oregon Food Bank (OFB). This is a full-time, exempt, hybrid opportunity based in Oregon or Southwest Washington. The position reports to the Community Philanthropy Associate Director - Operations and supervises three Prospect Research & Management Developers and vendors/consultants.

Who We Are

Oregon Food Bank (OFB) believes that no one should be hungry. Our mission is to eliminate hunger and its root causes. We believe that food and health are basic human rights for all. We know that hunger is not just an individual experience; it is also a community-wide symptom of systemic barriers to employment, education, housing and health care such as systemic racism, sexism, and cissexism. That's why we work systemically to achieve our mission to end hunger: we foster community connections to help people access nutritious food, and we build community power and strengthen networks of support and the safety net to eliminate the root causes of hunger for good.

We build community power to dismantle systems and policies that drive hunger and poverty.

Oregon Food Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we strongly encourage applications from candidates who can increase the diversity of our organization and strengthen our capacity to eliminate hunger. We believe strongly in the power of lived experience and we actively seek individuals who have experienced hunger and its root causes to join our team. Our organization is stronger because of the leadership of people who have faced food insecurity in their own lives and/or hail from historically under-represented communities. Learn more about our commitment at oregonfoodbank.org/equity.

Who You Are

You care deeply about community, about people experiencing hunger and hold them in the center of all that you do. You are committed to apply equity as a process and an outcome of your work to disrupt systemic social patterns that promote hunger such as racism, sexism, and cissexism. You have a strong affinity with OFB's 10 Year Vision and are profoundly excited to achieve this vision for and with our community.

Position Summary

You will join 45+ Community Philanthropy colleagues, passionately and collaboratively building relationships to end hunger and hunger's root causes. Together we mobilize $44M+ in annual support for Oregon Food Bank's mission and 10-Year Vision. We undertake this work while reclaiming philanthropy's true meaning, a love for humankind. Love manifests as action in many forms, taken for the common good, which we inspire and facilitate through the design of community-centric programs with equity at their core. Learn more from our team members daring to imagine and leading to create a more just experience of philanthropy.

As the Community Philanthropy Manager - Prospect Research & Management, you will contribute to the organization's success through your leadership of Community Philanthropy's Prospect Research & Management Team - guiding the design and facilitation of prospect research and management programs that reach relationship development and resource mobilization goals and objectives of Oregon Food Bank and Community Philanthropy.

This position reports to the Community Philanthropy Associate Director - Operations and supervises three Prospect Research & Management Developers and vendors/consultants. You will perform duties, and supervise staff performing duties like complex reporting; data analysis, data systems design, and data entry; donor research; portfolio management; project management; facilitation of prospect strategy meetings, and more.

This position can perform their duties from anywhere within Oregon & SW Washington and establish a homebase from any of Oregon Food Bank's facilities in Beaverton, Ontario, Portland, The Dalles, or Tillamook, OR. OFB can provide this position dedicated desk space within an Oregon Food Bank facility, or the role can be performed predominantly from a home office and attend periodically-required visits to OFB facilities. Accommodations can be made and candidates are encouraged to inquire.

Primary Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Collaborate closely with the Community Philanthropy Director and Community Philanthropy Associate Director - Operations in the design and implementation of prospect research and management programs aligned to Community Philanthropy's strategic priorities and annual goals.

• Lead Community Philanthropy through annual revenue budgeting - providing project plans, analysis, tools, and process.

• Design of prospect management systems and departmental culture to build an excellent leadership and principle gifts program that optimizes donor giving to highest capacity, and brings love and equity to the center of relationship management in supporter engagement.

• Coach, guide, and supervise Community Philanthropy's Prospect Research & Management staff, and oversee the work of consultants and vendors supporting that team.

• Provide program management oversight of prospect development functions, including: prospect and donor research, relationship management systems, list pulls, and data analytics.

• Ensure the team's effective development of tracking systems for prospect management within the database, i.e. moves management, proposals, and qualitative denotations for action types (aligned with Community Philanthropy's theory of change and the centering of love and equity in our work).

• Lead the Prospect Research & Management Team's annual work-planning and expense budget process and implementation, in alignment with Community Philanthropy's work planning process and timelines.

• Design and maintain top-prospect relationship-management, proposal, and gift-tracking systems as well as regular progress to goal reporting.

• Design and maintain RENXT systems and integrations for organization-wide government and movement building partners relationship management and financial tracking of government funding to strengthen government funding efficacy, grant compliance and best practices in the reconciliation between RENXT, EveryAction and Sage Intacct.

• Ensure effective design and facilitation of regular move management and donor/prospect strategy meetings - cultivating a culture of transparency, trust, and accountability in transformational relationship strategy development and implementation to meet Oregon Food Bank's annual operating financial goals (while driving wealth redistribution as justice and engaging community with love).

• Plan and implement strategies to proactively identify sources of major gifts ($10,000+) to assign to appropriate relationship managers.

• Provide high-level research on individuals, corporations, and foundations. Compose profiles, biographies, and reports using style, grammar and content appropriate to specific audiences.

• Onboard and train Community Philanthropy colleagues in prospect development programs, data entry standard and other technical tools as needed.

• Participate as a member of Oregon Food Bank's Community Philanthropy Leadership Team.

• Other related duties as assigned.

Organizational Level Responsibilities of Exempt Employees Include

• To be an ambassador and a leader for OFB's vision and mission, a cross-departmental collaborator, and an active contributor to building a movement to end hunger for good by addressing the root causes of hunger: systemic oppressions such as racism, xenophobia, sexism, and cisexism.

• In consultation and coordination with the supervisor, actively contribute to:

• cross-departmental efforts

• work culture activities and programming

• advisory and consultative groups such as the compensation committee, affinity groups, Equity Ambassadors, Equity Think Tank meetings, among others

• plan and engage in professional development activities that strengthen your capacity for your specific role as well as your capacity to contribute and advance organizational goals, OFB's vision and mission.

• Identify, share, engage in, and collaboratively adjust and make necessary changes to this description of duties according to the inevitable evolution of the role over time.

Skills and Experience Required

• Deep passion for eliminating hunger and its root causes.

• 5 years experience in prospect research and management, moves management, sales operations, and/or related fields.

• 3 years of experience leading, coaching, training, and inspiring a team of colleagues (this may include direct supervisory duties of professional staff or interns, oversight of contract vendors and consultants, volunteer supervision, or guiding a team of peers in group projects, etc.).

• Demonstrated computer skills working with relational databases and spreadsheets. Ability to download and export information between systems.

• Ability to conceptualize and develop proactive prospecting methodologies including data mining, sophisticated constituent database queries, etc.

• Strong organizational skills.

• Ability to develop long-term plans, set objectives, and track progress towards achieving objectives.

• Knowledge of and experience with Moves Management, Community-Centric Fundraising principles, Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement's Body of Knowledge and Ethics Statement, and/or other philanthropic development concepts and methodology.

• High-level of proficiency with office technology and information systems (including GSuite, Microsoft Office), donor databases (preferably Raiser's Edge), and/or experience with iWave, LexisNexis, or other prospecting databases. Ability to quickly adapt to new software and online tools a plus!

Organizational Level Skills and Experience Required for Exempt Employees Include

• Disposition and willingness to maximize multiple perspectives to innovate, problem solve and seek creative solutions.

• Experience in modeling intercultural competence and demonstrated commitment to equity and social justice.

• Demonstrated ability to think strategically, collaborate, take initiative, and to maintain confidentiality.

• Project coordination and organization skills; ability to manage multiple projects with attention to detail; ability to handle interruptions, and produce timely, accurate work.

• Ability to both work independently and as part of a team; comfortable working in an office environment and offsite.

• Ability to thrive in a diverse, creative, responsive, mission-driven, and fast-paced work culture.

• Experience of successful cultural immersion working and/or living within OFB's Equity Constituencies: BIPoC, Immigrants & Refugees, Single Mothers, Trans and Gender-Non-Conforming folx.

• Cultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Association of Fundraising Professionals - CFRE.

• 40+ hours of: AFP and/or APRA and/or CASE and/or AASP and/or People's Nonprofit Accelerator (formerly WVDO) Certifications (role specific).

• 40+ Hour Leadership Development Certification from Rockwood Leadership Institute (or "like" institution of comparable credibility).

• 40+ Hour DEI Certification (from Oregon Food Bank's Equity Institute, State of Oregon's Sexual Assault Training Institute, YWCA of Columbia-Willamette, Raphael House of Portland or "like" institution of comparable credibility).

• 40+ Hour RENXT, EveryAction, Excel, Business Intelligence Tool Trainings & Certifications.

• Experience working in a non-profit with an affiliated 501(c)3 and 501(c)4.

Organizational Level Preferred Qualifications of Exempt Employees Include

• Multilingual skills at a minimum professional level of proficiency or greater in English and any additional language/s, defined as being able to speak the languages with sufficient structural accuracy and vocabulary to participate effectively in most formal and informal conversations on practical and professional topics.

• Multicultural skills of adaptation and integration are strongly preferred.

• Adaptation is defined as the capacity to communicate and interact with people of multiple cultures, backgrounds, and styles by incorporating and adapting to the world view and perspectives of others.

• Integration is defined as being able to "code-switch" or move in and out of one's worldview and help others understand different cultures, backgrounds, and styles to promote diversity and inclusion.

• Commitment to continued professional development to strengthen capacity to work through an equity lens for equity and racial justice.

• Strong capacity to consider multiple perspectives, to pivot to respond to emerging needs and lead through organizational changes.

• Years of successful cultural immersion either working with and/or living within one or more of OFB's Equity Constituencies at the time of hire. An additional step for at least 10 years above minimum required of successful cultural immersion working with and/or living within one or more of OFB's Equity Constituencies at the time of hire.

• Cultural Immersion defined as: Actively integrated in one or more communities, interacting with individuals and groups, and seeking to understand the diversities within and between communities by being there and engaging in daily life activities.

Work environment:

Work is performed in an office environment while sitting in meetings or at a computer screen for extended periods inside and outside of Oregon Food Bank and will use computers and phones extensively.

May work outside of general working hours of 8:00 - 5:00 p.m., such as evenings and weekends, and occasional travel out of town may occur. Work may require to lift, move and carry objects from 20 to 40 pounds, such as boxes containing office and other supplies. Crouching, bending, kneeling and reaching when filing.

Accommodations may be available upon request.

Inclement Weather, Service Disruptions and Disaster Response Expectations

OFB is part of the regional disaster response network and, as part of our commitment to our community, we all are expected to report to work as soon as it's safe to do so and to respond to the disaster, emergency, inclement weather or extended service disruption as needed and as possible. Work and paid designations are described in OFB's Inclement Weather Guidelines. At all times staff is supported to prioritize their safety and those of their dependants, families and loved ones while in communication and coordination with supervisors.

Compensation

This is a full-time, exempt position with a hiring salary range of $82,590-$93,208 annually.

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