Leadership Annual Giving Officer and Assistant Director of Donor Stewardship

Description

Centre College is a premier national liberal arts college that serves approximately 1,400 students and provides a supportive community and a flexible, personal academic path to a meaningful life and career. Founded in 1819, Centre accomplishes its goals in an atmosphere of caring and respectful relationships among faculty, students, and staff. The College has an endowment in excess of $420 million and an operating budget of more than $65 million.

Centre welcomes and supports diversity. The College strives to create an environment where differences are celebrated, where individuals can exchange ideas and share in the richness of mutual experiences. Please view our Statement of Community.

Located in Danville, KY, the historic, picturesque 150-acre campus is 30 miles from Lexington, in the famed Bluegrass Region of Central Kentucky.

Centre College seeks a skilled communicator and strong relationship manager to deliver a personalized constituent engagement and fundraising program to benefit the Centre Fund and grow leadership annual giving.  The successful candidate will play a critical role in cultivating, growing, and stewarding a pipeline of new leadership annual giving donors and driving increasing rates of annual giving participation and cumulative dollars raised through both cash commitments and multi-year pledges to the Centre Fund and the Associates Giving Society. 

This position will create donor engagement strategies and will utilize in-person meetings to cultivate relationships, inspire giving, and build sustained annual philanthropic support for the College.  The candidate must be comfortable with multitasking and asking for donations to support Centre.  The candidate will be responsible for engaging donors daily using video, phone, email, social media, and in-person visits.  The candidate will work successfully with a variety of campus partners as well as with colleagues in Donor Relations, Communications, and across the Office of Development and Alumni Engagement.  

Essential Job Functions:

• Solicit new and increased gifts to the Centre Fund, create individualized donor stewardship plans, and cultivate increased alumni and parent engagement through philanthropic relationships with the College;
• Focus on acquiring new and recapturing lapsed Associate donors (LYBUNTS, SYBUNT, PYBUNTS), increasing Donor retention, and upgrading donors from entry level annual gifts to leadership level annual gifts, focusing in particular on Associate-level giving (commitments of $1,000 or more annually);
• Create personalized solicitation plans to increase donor engagement and drive annual giving for assigned prospects;
• Actively manage a portfolio of approximately 150-200 identified leadership annual giving prospects and lapsed donors with capacity ratings of $1,000 to $50,000 for gifts to the Centre Fund;
• Build and maintain a portfolio of prospects and work with the Senior AVP, Director of Donor Relations, and Director of Annual Giving to achieve the stated goals for the position;
• Complete a minimum of 125 visits annually with rated prospects.
• Track all prospect outreach and information in FPM and provide contact reports in a timely fashion;
• Help to identify and segment data for appeals and special projects, as well as produce database reports and queries to track campaigns and appeals status.
• Assist with donor communications and stewardship efforts to engage donors in the mission of the college.
• Proactively monitor engagement and fundraising results to identify trends and opportunities to optimize success;
• Collaborate with colleagues in Donor Relations and Annual Giving to identify prospects and future volunteer leaders;
• Collaborate with colleagues in the Development office including major gift officers, prospect research, stewardship, and advancement services to identify and help advance annual donors through the donor pipeline to major gift prospect status.
• Participate in solicitations during key annual giving campaigns and event weekends including Fund the Flame, C6H0, Associates events, Homecoming, Reunion, Commencement, Family Weekend, Orientation Weekend, and others campus and regional events;
• Assist in managing reunion classes with fundraising and solicitation strategie