Associate Director-Development Stewardship

Job Title:

Associate Director-Development Stewardship

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Full/Part Time:
Full-Time

Job

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work‑life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

Georgia Tech is a top‑ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top‑ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech’s faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation’s top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech’s mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

• Students are our top priority.
• We strive for excellence.
• We thrive on diversity.
• We celebrate collaboration.
• We champion innovation.
• We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
• We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
• We act ethically.
• We are responsible stewards.

Georgia Tech Office of Development (DEV) is led by the Vice President for the Office of Development, Jim Hall, and currently consists of more than 100 professionals focused on securing transformative philanthropy (major and principal gifts) to support the strategic priorities of the Institute and its colleges, schools, and programs, including Georgia Tech Athletics. For fiscal year 2024, the Development team’s efforts resulted in over $243 million in new gifts and commitments in support of Transforming Tomorrow:
The Campaign for Georgia Tech.

The position plays a key role within the Alexander‑Tharpe Fund (Georgia Tech Athletics Development) and interacts regularly with the Director of Athletics and members of the Georgia Tech Athletics Association executive team. The incumbent will plan and organize events and programs designed to recognize and steward donors for their contributions while also developing and maintaining productive relationships with donors and prospective donors.

Additionally, the role will support other stewardship initiatives and special projects as assigned and will interact on a regular basis with Institute and Office of Development executives, development officers and staff, faculty, coaches, staff representatives, volunteers, donors, alumni, and fans.

• Creating, developing, and implementing a comprehensive stewardship program for athletics, including donor events, impact reports, and fulfillment of all stated benefits.
• Working with Development staff to determine the strategy and timing of donor reports, managing and analyzing relevant information, preparing reports to donors, and coordinating with staff to ensure they have information necessary to compile impact reports for funds in their respective units; tracking activity in Blackbaud CRM.
• Stewarding Georgia Tech’s major donors with emphasis on donors of endowed scholarship funds; creating and implementing stewardship programming, impact reporting and related activities to identify and involve donor contacts for these funds.
• Managing the process of adding new members to the Golden Jackets, the…