Senior Associate Director of Donor Experiences, Principal Gifts - University Advancement

Scheduled Hours

37.5

Position Summary

The Senior Associate Director of Donor Experiences reports to the Director of Donor Experiences and Leadership Initiatives and works closely with the entire Principal Gifts team. This position will curate donor experiences for Principal Gift level donors. This position will also manage leadership initiatives, including Philanthropy Forward, to build the university’s pipeline of up and coming donors. The position delivers exceptional service to our constituents and plays a central role in setting and delivering principal gifts fundraising and engagement strategies and meeting program goals.

Job Description

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Assists the Principal Gifts team in implementing highly-personalized donor engagement, cultivation, and stewardship experiences — a key component of our donor-centric model.
• Oversees the university’s Leadership Initiative program, including Philanthropy Forward, in conjunction with the Office of the Chancellor.
• Supports the Director of Donor Experiences on key deliverables related to donor engagement and experiences, including volunteer leadership and pipeline building programs and other special leadership initiatives.
• Assists in planning innovative, creative, and individually-tailored multimedia donor stewardship activities and highly customized recognition and celebratory gifts.
• On-site event management and some event-related travel
• Assists with comprehensive briefing materials to prepare university leadership, including the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor for University Advancement, provost and senior advancement colleagues, for events and programs with principal gift prospects and donors.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree.
• Supervisory and significant management experience in donor relations, major gifts, event management, and project administration.
• Exceptional communication, relationship-building and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work with individuals from across the university.
• Creativity, flexibility, and a proactive approach are vital in this role.
• Excellent communication skills—verbal and written—and will demonstrate exceptional integrity.
• Experience, sensitivity, and diplomacy; understanding of the high-level relationship-building and strategies involved in securing complex gifts.
• Keen sense of accountability, sound judgement, and ethical professionalism in a deadline-driven, high-performing environment.
• Demonstrated time and project management skills and ability to work independently with little supervision.
• Ability to set priorities and successfully manage multiple projects and competing deadlines.
• Comfort and familiarity with prospect cultivation, strategy, solicitation and stewardship at the principal or major gifts level.
• Sound judgment and demonstrated experience dealing with sensitive and confidential data in a professional and ethical manner.
• Flexibility to take on new assignments and deal with ambiguity as new programs and paradigms emerge.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team, frequently problem solving for others’ projects and prospects.
• High energy, initiative, creativity, drive, and discretion.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of five years of related experience.

Grade

G14

Salary Range

$75,200.00 - $128,800.00 / Annually

The salary range reflects base salaries paid for positions in a given job grade across the University. Individual rates within the range will be determined by factors including one's qualifications and performance, equity with others in the department, market rates for positions within the same grade and department budget.

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