Director of Philanthropic Development
2 months ago
About the Role
The Commonwealth of Virginia is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Assistant Director for Leadership Gifts to join our team. As a key member of our advancement division, you will play a critical role in building and maintaining relationships with alumni and friends of the university, securing major gifts to support our academic programs and initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement strategic plans to identify, cultivate, and solicit major gifts from individuals, foundations, and corporations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with university leaders, faculty, and staff to ensure alignment and support for advancement initiatives.
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop and implement comprehensive fundraising strategies, including annual giving, capital campaigns, and planned giving.
- Manage a portfolio of 50-250 prospects, with a focus on securing gifts in the range of $5,000 to $100,000.
- Travel, on average, five to ten days per month to cultivate, solicit, steward, and identify prospects for colleges and programs.
- Ensure compliance with university, state, and federal laws, policies, regulations, and the CASE Donor Bill of Rights.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with related fundraising or relevant experience, or Master's degree.
- Ability to build relationships with volunteers and donors, self-motivated, and embrace the concept and attitude of teamwork in a complex organization.
- Demonstrated interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to articulate the importance of higher education and understand the critical role and priorities of the university and the advancement division.
- Demonstrated experience in fundraising, sales/marketing, advertising, public relations, client relations, communications, or experience in cold calling.
- Demonstrated experience in relational database manipulation.
- Experience with office software applications such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook or similar programs.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in higher education fundraising.
- Proven success in building productive relationships with senior administrators, key business leaders, faculty, staff, institutional boards, volunteers, and/or donors.
- Basic understanding of the concepts and principles of fundraising is beneficial.
- Previous annual giving experience.
About the Commonwealth of Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia is a leading public research university that conducts more than $500 million in research annually. We are committed to knowledge, discovery, and creativity, and we offer more than 280 majors to a diverse enrollment of over 36,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. We do not discriminate against employees, students, or applicants on the basis of age, color, disability, sex (including pregnancy), gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, or military status, or otherwise discriminate against employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants, or on any other basis protected by law.
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