Director of Annual Giving

1 month ago


Reading, United States Austin Preparatory School Full time

The Director of Annual Giving reports to the Director of Development and is responsible for the strategic design and implementation of Austin Prep’s comprehensive annual giving program, the Austin Prep Fund. The Director leads programs, events, initiatives, and communications aimed at increasing current-use giving and donor participation while supporting the School’s greater development and campaign goals. The Director strengthens existing relationships and builds new ones while increasing participation and giving to the Austin Prep Fund, creating a pipeline for future philanthropic giving to the school.


RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

  • Supporting the School and its leadership in advancing the mission of Austin Prep and safeguarding the School’s Roman Catholic identity and Augustinian heritage.
  • Develop, implement, and manage strategies for maximizing philanthropic support of the Austin Prep Fund, including all goals, objectives, and tasks in an effort to build unrestricted Annual Fund giving to the $1M level, a in the next 3-5 years.
  • Collaborate with the Development and senior leadership to align strategies with the school’s goals and vision.
  • Create and manage detailed plan for the Austin Prep Fund. including objectives, approach (direct mail, email, online giving, social media, etc.), segmentation strategy and schedule, brief for appeal materials, and roles for volunteers, and communications to educate and solicit constituents.
  • Determine donor targets by constituent groups while building strategies for moving donors to higher annual giving levels.
  • Oversee all annual giving programs including annual Day of Giving, faculty/staff campaigns, parent class agent program, senior gift, and other activities.
  • Manage a prospect pool of roughly 100 leadership-level annual giving prospects with annual goals for personal visits and advancing relationships.
  • Develop and execute an effective and sustainable volunteer program to encourage annual giving, including Class Ambassadors, Parent Annual Fund Volunteers, Faculty/Staff Volunteers, etc. Supervise data entry, report writing and generation, and gift processing, and all additional aspects of the school’s constituent relations software.
  • Develop Austin Prep Fund donor recognition efforts and stewardship opportunities and assist in the production of the Annual Report and other publications.
  • Work with the Director of Alumni Engagement to support class reunion giving, and maintain high visibility in the school community, attending a variety of student, parent, admissions, and alumni events.
  • Pursue professional development opportunities to implement best practices in alignment with the school’s pace of change and growth. 


QUALIFICATIONS:

We are looking for someone with 5-7 years of successful direct fundraising experience, event planning, or account management, preferably in an academic setting. An independent and strategic thinker capable of understanding the full scope of an annual fund campaign while seeing individual tasks through completion. Bachelor’s degree required. This candidate must be able to manage several tasks simultaneously, possessing an ability to prioritize multiple tasks and manage deadlines effectively, while working with a high level of integrity and extraordinary work ethic. The ability to work creatively to match donor interests with the school’s priorities and build meaningful relationships with individuals for purposes of cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of gifts to the school.


HOW TO APPLY:

Austin Preparatory School has engaged DovetailED to lead this search. Interested candidates should email a cover letter (addressed to Director of Development, Hillary Repucci). In addition to indicating why they are particularly interested in and qualified for this position, all candidates should describe how they can help support our Catholic faith and our Augustinian heritage. Along with the cover letter, candidates should include a resume and a list of at least three professional references, consolidated into a single PDF document, and send it to Alison Moore, Senior Recruiter, at alison@dovetailedsourcing.com. Please do not contact the school directly.



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