Associate Vice President for Development
4 weeks ago
**The Position**
Reporting to the Vice President for Institutional Advancement, the Associate Vice President for Development serves as a senior development leader in Institutional Advancement directly supervising a comprehensive program of annual giving, planned giving, alumni relations, and major giving. The Associate Vice President carries a portfolio of high-priority leadership giving prospects and is responsible for cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding these prospects. Working closely with the Vice President for Institutional Advancement, the Associate Vice President will:
- Lead the development of fundraising goals, strategy, and the execution of those goals to meet the College’s institutional advancement priorities.
- Support the President of the College and trustees to cultivate, solicit, and steward major gifts prospects, as needed, working closely also with the Senior Principal Giving Officer.
- Lead, mentor and develop a growing team of frontline fundraising and alumni engagement efforts. Support the highly engaged internal staff and lead the effort to recruit additional talent to build out the team.
- Oversee a robust program to build a pipeline of prospects and donors through integration of annual giving, major giving, planned giving and alumni relations programs.
- In collaboration with the Assistant Vice President for Advancement Operations, develop successful strategies for coordinating all timelines, events and stewardship functions.
- Work closely with the Vice President of Institutional Advancement to establish division-wide fundraising goals and performance metrics for development officers, opportunity pipeline reports, and frontline fundraising meetings.
- Motivate gifts officers on an ongoing basis around a common vision of institutional fund-raising priorities and passionately convey those priorities to alumni, parents, and friends of the College.
- Track and measure progress of the College’s development goals.
**Qualifications**
Bennington serves a diverse student population inclusive of members of ethnically/racially minoritized, international, LGBTQIA+, and disability communities as well as diverse gender identities, socioeconomic backgrounds, religions, and political beliefs. Our staff and faculty also reflect diverse and intersecting backgrounds and identities. All employees are expected to be respectful and responsive to these differences in the service of building community that promotes student and employee success and community cohesiveness. Each individual (faculty, staff and students) will be accountable for upholding these values. The College’s approach to pluralism and inclusivity—both as fields of inquiry and practice—is to prioritize flexible thought, and to invite the examination of access, value, power, and privilege through its institutional policies and areas of study. We encourage applicants from diverse realms of interest, backgrounds, experience, and accomplishment to apply.
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Demonstrated success in 10 years of increasingly responsible fundraising experience in a non-profit organization, preferably in an education setting, required.
- Demonstrated success in the cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of leadership gifts prospects is required.
- Ability to work independently as well as within a team environment to achieve institutional goals.
- Strong analytical and independent decision-making capability required.
- Demonstrated and highly successful/engaged supervisory experience; ability to mentor, coach and develop internal talent in a way that positively respects and embraces staff and motivates them to do their best work; ability to recruit/retain a diverse and highly qualified team.
- Budgetary experience.
- Excellent written and oral communications skills required.
- Strong project management, leadership, organizational planning skills with the ability to set priorities and balance concurrent tasks.
- The ability to recruit, motivate, and direct alumni volunteers.
- Proven team player.
- Proficiency in data-based systems and business software is essential; preferably Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge/NXT.
- Flexible and available for evening, weekend, or early morning events and meetings.
- Ability to travel as needed to manage a prospect portfolio.
- Requires the successful completion and acceptable results of a background check.
**_The College_**
Bennington is currently developing a strategic plan which will define an exciting, radical vision for the future, including creating innovative partnerships for social impact, on campus and in the larger community and beyond. Funders have embraced this vision: the college has recently received generous support from alumni, including one of the largest donations in its history, as well as support from The Ford Foundation, Endeavor Foundation, and several others to support programs in sustainability, mental health, social justice, and storytelling. In conjunction, it i
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