p>Responsibilities: Support Comprehensive Fundraising Program:
- Executes strategy to discover and qualify as many unique prospects as possible;
- Raises funds for all schools, units, and priorities by soliciting gifts of $2,500, $25,000, and higher;
- Aids in the execution of a robust discovery program, helping to establish processes and procedures for the handling of prospects that are willing to take a personal visit or call by a development officer for further engagement, cultivation, and solicitation;
- Develops, directs, and implements pre-qualification strategies for lead annual gift and major gift prospects through discovery calls, personal visits, virtual engagement, and email;
- Assists in the strategy and execution of solicitations;
- Manages a dynamic portfolio of prospects with interests across the university;
- Works closely with the Prospect Management team and development officers to expand the donor base and build a robust pipeline for major gift support for the university;
- Collaborates with communications and outreach, and annual giving and development officers to ensure consistency of fundraising messages, and to enhance the impact of the overall university campaign;
- Identifies opportunities and coordinates strategies to broaden the prospect"s relationship with the university through additional engagement with institutional partners;
- Maintains data integrity of prospect records, including entering and updating contact entries, next steps, and strategic donor plans and proposals according to established protocols;
- Supports successful execution of a comprehensive fundraising program that appropriately partners with and leverages resources from the Central Advancement team to accomplish objectives;
- Coordinates the efforts of those who can assist in fundraising; tracks contacts, asks, and funds raised; drafts proposals and pledge agreements for potential donors; and proposes and coordinates appropriate cultivation and stewardship activities;
- Travels as necessary for donor outreach and cultivation;
- Works with offices across campus to coordinate related activities that further the university's mission and achieve fundraising goals;
- Finds new and creative ways to engage donors that will enrich the donor experience and add value to the academic life of the university;
- Works with staff to engage all alumni to advance the percentage of active involvement and increase alumni donations;
- Engages a wide range of colleagues, alumni, donors, prior faculty and staff, and individuals who might be able to help in pursuing/winning major gifts;
- Seeks the assistance of a wide range of people in identifying prospects who might make major gifts in the future; and.
Required Qualifications:
- Master's degree in related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience;
- Some experience designing and executing annual-level donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies;
- Some (generally one - three years) successful professional advancement and/or fundraising-related experience or any equivalent combination of education and/or experience;
- Experience with successful collaboration with teams or stakeholders;
- Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and meeting continuous deadlines;
- Experience documenting appropriate information in a donor management database system;
- Experience interacting with a wide variety of constituents, such as, donors, prospects, trustees, faculty and staff;
- Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills;
- Demonstrated writing skills associated with proposals, solicitation letters, etc.