Associate Director of Gift Planning

Overview

The Salvation Army’s Divisional Headquarters is hiring an Associate Director of Gift Planning and offers excellent benefit package to eligible employees including:

• Generous paid time off every year that includes: vacation and sick time, holidays, and up to 3 personal days.
• Employer funded Pension Plan (company contributions begin after 1 year of employment)
• Comprehensive health care coverage with low-cost employee premiums, co-pays and deductibles
• Eligibility for supplemental insurance plans including Short Term Disability, AFLAC and Voluntary Term Life
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Eligibility for the Federal Government’s Public Student Loan Forgiveness Program
• Most importantly – a job with a good purpose!

Location
: 25 Shawmut Rd., Canton, MA

Hours/week
: 35 hours per week (Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m., with additional hours as required for exempt positions).

Exemption
:
Exempt

Pay Range
: $87,884.88 – $114,297

* starting pay varies depending on experience and qualifications*

Primary responsibilities include cultivation and completion of both irrevocable and revocable planned gifts for The Salvation Army. Works under the direct supervision of the Director of Gift Planning.

a) Professional cultivation, promotion, and closure of planned gifts within and for the benefit of the Division or corps/units within the Division.

b) Provide proper estate and gift planning education and counsel to donors, prospects, volunteers and volunteer groups, Salvation Army advisory boards and Salvation Army officers and employees who require such knowledge for fulfillment of their respective responsibilities.

c) Advise all donors prior to the completion of each gift, regardless of the type, of The Salvation Army’s allocation procedures governing the distribution of unrestricted gifts and of all designation options through which they may specify their gifts for local or restricted applications.

d) The decision to leave a gift unrestricted or to designate it for any special or local use must be that of the donor.

e) Work in a professional, cooperative, and productive manner with other development staff and Divisional Headquarters personnel.

f) Provide monthly written reports to the Director of Gift Planning and to the Territorial Office of Special Gifts summarizing activities and results of the preceding month, as well as plans for continuing efforts during the then present month. All such reports shall be goal oriented in terms of plans, progress, and production.

g) In consultation with the Director of Gift Planning, agree on program and gift production goals for his/her own work and organize priorities and activities toward the achievement of gift production objectives. It is expected that the Associate Director of Gift Planning will spend at least half of his or her time visiting donors and prospects in their homes, offices, or other private places to discuss their planned giving desires.

h) Devote full time to Gift Planning responsibilities.

Although the Associate Director is a Divisional employee, he/she will have a direct relationship with the Territorial Office of Special Gifts, whose personnel will provide certain assistance and oversight and training and education programs.

• The Associate Director shall receive orientation and training at the time of employment by representatives of Territorial Headquarters.
• The Associate Director shall attend such annual programs and strategy conferences for Divisional Gift Planning professionals as scheduled by the Territorial Community Relations and Development Secretary.
• The Associate Director, subject to the approval of the Director of Gift Planning, shall attend such other education and training programs as may be deemed appropriate and as provided for in the operating budget.
• The Associate Director shall establish and maintain membership in professional organizations as recommended by the Director of Gift Planning and/or Territorial Director of Special Gifts subject to existing policy and budget provision.
• The Territorial Director of Special Gifts Staff shall have access to the Associate Director through…