Associate Director, Reunion Giving

Department
 

Booth Advancement: Reunion Gifts

About the Department
 

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and second to none when it comes to influencing business education and business practices. Since 1898, the school has produced ideas and leaders that shape the world of business. Their rigorous, discipline-based approach to business education transforms students into confident, effective, respected business leaders prepared to face the toughest challenges.

Chicago Booth has the finest set of facilities of any business school in the world. Each of the four campuses (two in Chicago, one in London, and one in Hong Kong) reflects the architectural traditions of its environs while offering a state-of-the-art learning environment.

Chicago Booth is proud to claim:
-an unmatched faculty.
-degree and open enrollment programs offered on three continents.
-a global body of nearly 56,000 accomplished alumni.
-strong and growing corporate relationships that provide a wealth of lifelong career opportunities.

As part of the world-renowned University of Chicago, Chicago Booth shares the University's core values that shape the distinctive intellectual culture. At Booth, they constantly question and test ideas, and seek proof. This extraordinarily effective approach to business leads to new ideas and innovative solutions. Seven of the Booth faculty members have won Nobel Prizes for these ideas - the first business school to achieve this accomplishment.

For more information about the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, please visit: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/.

Job Summary
 

The Associate Director, Reunion and Class Giving at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is responsible for planning and implementing a variety of programs dedicated to the Annual Fund with special emphasis on reunion and class-based fundraising. This individual recruits, trains, and manages class-based volunteer fundraising committees – identifying and soliciting alumni reunion prospects and coordinating and collaborating on volunteer strategies within the Office of Advancement for the benefit of creating new and strategic connections in the Chicago Booth community though volunteer fundraising management, mentorship and advising of fundraising volunteers, acting as an Advancement liaison to departments and senior staff across the school, and by building a pipeline of donors and volunteers to the school.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, recruits, trains, and manages fundraising volunteers; acts as liaison for fundraising volunteers and Reunion committees.
• Works with fundraising volunteers to produce solicitation letters.
• Works with fundraising volunteers to identify and solicit prospects in each class as well to achieve 100% participation in giving on each reunion committee.
• Ensures that monthly giving reports are prepared for fundraising volunteers.
• Supports each reunion class in meeting reunion giving goals.
• Maintains consistent and clear communication with fundraising volunteers.
• Stewards individual class campaigns and coordinates with Events team to plan and execute class-specific gatherings.
• Coordinates and collaborates with Alumni Engagement, Events and Individual Giving teams on volunteer communications, events, and programming.
• Identifies, cultivates and solicits prospective donors who have the capacity to make financial commitments of $2,500 to $100,000 or more.
• Produces and submits timely call reports on all visits and/or pertinent phone calls.
• Coordinates efforts with Individual Giving and Leadership Annual Giving teams, as well as Events and Alumni Engagement staff.
• Identifies and qualifies prospects to refer to the Leadership Annual Giving and Individual Giving teams and works to refer and transition prospects into appropriate portfolios.
• Partners with Deans’ offices, MBA program offices, Career Services, Leadership Development Office, and faculty centers to develop mutually beneficial student and alumni fundraising programs.
• Attends University events as a representative of Chicago Booth.
• Has a deep understanding of plans to solicit prospective donors and meet campaign goals. This includes speaking to new prospects persuasively about the case for annual giving support.
• Ensures quality control when monitoring various marketing channels by developing a targeted strategy for solicitation and marketing materials as well as campaign appeals, solving a range of moderately complex problems as they arise.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum Qualifications
 

Education:

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