Assistant Director, Leadership Annual Giving Officer , Intercollegiate Athletics

Assistant Director, Leadership Annual Giving Officer (7547U), Intercollegiate Athletics - 84618 About Berkeley

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The University of California, Berkeley, is the preeminent public university in the country. We are also one of the leading employers in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Department of Intercollegiate Athletics consists of more than 275 staff members and coaches and sponsors 30 varsity sports programs. These 30 programs include more than 850 student athletes who participate in the various sports programs annually within the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA).

Involves designing, developing, delivering, and administering fundraising programs. Identifies new donor prospects through researching background information on potential donors and developing materials, marketing plans, and organizing related programs/events; cultivates, stewards, and may solicit donor prospects.

The First Review Date for this job is: 03/12/2026.

• Acts as a liaison to specific sports to provide alumni relations services to designated friends' groups and constituents.
• Designs, organizes, and implements targeted and cost‑effective special alumni events and board meetings to advance alumni relations and fundraising engagement opportunities.
• Provides programmatic support and assists the Associate Athletics Director of Development, the Senior Director of Leadership Annual Giving, and UDAR partners in developing and executing mass solicitation strategies in support of annual initiatives for Cal Athletics.
• Ensures that predetermined fundraising goals are met, by providing strategy, analyzing progress throughout the year, and working with stakeholders to increase outreach.
• Communicates to transactional donors attached to tickets to ensure requirements relating to ticket/donation packages are met.
• Cultivate, Solicit and Steward Annual Fund Donors:
  Identify and manage a portfolio of at least 125 annual fund prospects which includes primarily individuals with specific affiliation and/or giving interest to Cal Athletics.
• Work to establish and manage effective relationships prospects and annual fund donors.
• Identify and evaluate potential donors; design and implement prospect cultivation and solicitation strategies.
• Complete 10 to 15 substantive contacts per month with an emphasis on quality personal visits.
• Provide stewardship for assigned prospects.

• Thorough working knowledge of fundraising, donor relations, and public relations concepts, principles, procedures, and techniques.
• Thorough working knowledge of and/or can quickly learn the location, its vision, mission, goals, objectives, achievements and infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of applicable laws, rules, regulations, policies, etc.
• Strong…