Senior Associate Director, Reunion and Class Giving

Department
 

Booth Advancement: Leadership Giving and Annual Fund

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 Senior 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 raising dollars and donors through the Annual Fund with special emphasis on reunion and class-based fundraising. This individual manages a team that recruits, trains, and oversees class-based volunteer fundraising committees – identifying and soliciting alumni reunion prospects and coordinating and collaborating on volunteer fundraising strategies within the Chicago Booth Office of Advancement. They will also conduct individual giving work, both focusing on leadership giving and major gift levels ranging from $2,500 to $100,000 or more.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, recruits, trains, and manages fundraising volunteers; acts as liaison for Gift Chairs and Reunion committees.
• Works with Gift Chairs to produce solicitation letters.
• Works with Gift Chairs to identify and solicit prospects in each class as well as achieve 100% participation on each reunion committee.
• Ensures that monthly giving reports are prepared for Gift Chairs.
• Supports each new reunion class in meeting reunion giving goals.
• Maintains consistent and clear communication with Gift Chairs and fundraising volunteers.
• Works with each Gift Chair to recruit additional fundraising volunteers.
• Stewards individual class campaigns and coordinates with Events team to plan and execute class-specific gatherings.
• Produces and submits timely call reports on all visits and/or pertinent phone calls.
• Coordinates and collaborates with Alumni Engagement and Advancement teams on volunteer communications, events, and programming.
• Visits, qualifies, and solicits individual prospects for leadership gifts of $2,500 or more.
• Develops and conducts major gift solicitations individually, or in partnership with the Individual Giving team.
• Hires, trains, and manages additional staff members who will be responsible for similar volunteer fundraising-based class gift and reunion campaigns.
• Collaborates with Annual Fund direct appeals staff to develop and produce direct mail, telefund, and email initiatives to promote Reunion and Class-based fundraising.
• Partners with Individual Giving team on cultivation and solicitation of major gift and principal gift prospects.
• 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.
• Provides expertise to the development of plans to solicit prospective donors and meet campaign goals. This includes speaking to new prospects persuasively about the case for annua