Associate Director, Office of Gift Planning , University Development and Alumni Relations

Associate Director, Office of Gift Planning (0463U), University Development and Alumni Relations #88 About Berkeley

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University Development and Alumni Relations (UDAR) helps build Berkeley's excellence through communications, public outreach, and fundraising to raise public awareness about Berkeley and increase private philanthropy. UDAR provides overall direction for the campus's philanthropic advancement strategies and strengthens campus unit development in partnership with campus fundraisers. It handles a range of central activities and services encompassing prospect development, communications, donor stewardship, gift management, and more.

The Office of Gift Planning conducts and oversees gift planning fundraising for the entire campus. Working with hundreds of donors on a variety of outright, life income, and estate gifts and bequest commitments, each year the Office partners with colleagues across the campus on more than $120 million in gifts.

The Associate Director, Office of Gift Planning designs, develops, delivers, and administers fundraising programs. This position serves as a Gift Planning technical expert and solicits bequests and other planned gifts via multiple outreach and qualifying venues. The Associate Director, Office of Gift Planning acts as a gift planning technical expert to campus academic and program units while managing a prospect portfolio and closing a minimum of $3M in life income/outright gifts and/or $15M in bequest commitments annually.

The First Review Date for this job is September 11, 2026. For full consideration, please apply on or before the first review date.

• Serves as an expert or lead development professional in charitable gift planning working with prospects/donors capable of making gifts of stocks, real estate, business interests, retirement accounts, donor advised funds, life insurance policies, etc., to fund life income gifts, bequests and blended gifts.
• Develops, creates, writes, implements, and / or evaluates individualized solicitation plans and / or strategies for cultivation and solicitation of gift planning prospects.
• Work with assigned campus units and appropriate UDAR units to create prospect and donor strategies and proposals; implement these strategies working collaboratively with the unit-based fundraisers and appropriate UDAR colleagues, including stewardship after the gift has closed.
• Writes complex proposals for solicitation of highly rated individuals. Qualify gift planning prospects and solicit gifts…