Foundation Fighting Blindness

Director

• Lead the midlevel giving strategy and program performance
• Provide direction and oversight for a comprehensive Midlevel Giving strategy that delivers a personalized donor experience across a large portfolio
• Establish clear priorities, segmentation, and consistent processes to drive strong retention, revenue growth, and a robust pipeline to Major Gifts
• Manage and develop the Midlevel Giving team
• Set clear goals and expectations, provide guidance and performance management, and reinforce consistent portfolio and moves-management practices across the team
• Identify opportunities to leverage team strengths and advance continual improvement
• Manage a personal portfolio of donors
• Serve as a frontline fundraiser for a portfolio of approximately 100 midlevel donors, with accountability for retention, upgrades, and qualification
• Execute disciplined donor engagement and moves management
• Develop and implement individualized donor strategies, ensure timely follow-up and stewardship, and track actions and outcomes to move donors forward with intention and consistency
• Plan and align donor touchpoints and solicitations
• Develop and manage an annual, segmented calendar of cultivation, stewardship, and solicitation touchpoints for midlevel donors
• Coordinate timing and messaging with Development, Marketing/Communications, Events, and Major Gifts to ensure alignment and effectiveness
• Qualify and transition donors to Major Gifts
• Identify donors with readiness and capacity, partner closely with Major Gifts to facilitate smooth transitions, and document donor context to support continuity and long-term relationship management
• Strengthen cross-functional collaboration and operational rigor
• Partner with internal teams to align messaging, cultivation opportunities, reporting, and data quality
• Maintain accurate documentation in CRM to support shared visibility, institutional knowledge, and data-informed decision-making.

Director, MidLevel Giving

Clinical Research

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the sponsored genetic testing program, including management of relationships with laboratory partners and coordination of case identification activities
• Use registry data to identify relevant cases that support sponsored genetic testing partnerships and fulfill data access requests from scientific collaborators.
• Manage scientific partnerships, including contracting, data-sharing agreements, and ongoing relationship stewardship.
• Build analytic datasets for scientific partnerships and data access requests, collaborating with internal team members who manage data infrastructure, cleaning, and import tools.
• Contribute to the strategic evaluation of the genetic testing program, including analysis of program performance, partnership value, and potential alternative models to inform future funding and program decisions
• Develop regular scientific publications and accessible research insights to be shared with registry participants and the broader community
• Support the scientific activities of the My Retina Tracker® registry program, including annual review and update of data collection modules in collaboration with registry team members
• Contribute to the development of policies and standard operating procedures, pertaining to data access, data privacy, and protection
• Support annual priority and budget planning alongside the SVP and registry team.
• Perform additional responsibilities as needed to support program success.

Director, MidLevel Giving

Clinical Research Lead, Genetic Testing and Registry