The Foundation's frontline fundraising team consists of three roles reporting to the Chief Development Officer: the Principal Gift Officer, the Director of Major Gifts, and the Senior Manager, Annual Leadership Giving. Together, this team covers the full continuum of individual giving, from first gifts through transformational commitments.

The Principal Gift Officer works in close partnership with the Chief Development Officer on the Foundation's largest and most complex prospects and gifts, contributing to how the Foundation approaches its highest-capacity relationships alongside the CDO.

The Foundation is in an early, foundational chapter: it is building a mature major and principal gift pipeline largely from scratch. The Principal Gift Officer will be central to that build, establishing the portfolio structure, prospect strategy, and moves-management discipline that the program will run on for years to come, not simply managing gifts within an already-mature system.

The Principal Gift Officer will manage a clearly defined portfolio of approximately 40–50 high-capacity individuals, families, foundations, and organizations. While the portfolio spans prospects capable of six-figure commitments, the role's core focus and expectation is identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and closing gifts in the seven-figure and above range, up to $5 million+.