Assistant Director, Development, Arts and Humanities

Department

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The Advancement Office engages alumni (~220k), current students, parents, and friends of the University through intellectual, professional and social activities on campus, around the world and online. Advancement raises $600 million annually to support faculty and researchers, practitioners and patients, and students and programs across the University. Our work supports priorities in every division, school, department, and institute.

A central component of Advancement, the Division of the Arts and Humanities Development enterprise is a team of three fundraising professionals who work collaboratively to secure annual, major, and principal gift support for divisional priorities and objectives, as set by the Dean, and foster increased engagement with the division. The team undertakes this work through in-person meetings, carefully curated cultivation and stewardship events, and other forms of donor engagement.

The Assistant Director, Development, Arts and Humanities, provides essential professional support for assigned development activities within the division, including annual giving, stewardship, and event activities. This role executes fundraising projects, including data management and content development for cultivation programs for prospective donors and the division’s advisory council; and leads event planning for Advancement Arts and Humanities. This position provides professional support of assigned development activities with instruction from others.

Executes fundraising projects, cultivation programs for prospective donors and for visiting committees. This role may also have donor-facing responsibilities, including qualifying, cultivating, and stewarding leadership annual giving donors and prospects over Zoom and in person.

• Manages and leads the team's stewardship program, including timely and considered gift acknowledgments, developing an annual comprehensive divisional report, gathering data on individual fund usage, compiling data into written reports, and managing report deployment.
• Assists in the planning and execution of divisional events, including strategic engagement, cultivation, and stewardship events, as well as events involving volunteers.
• Coordinates annual giving activity, including direct appeal efforts across all giving channels (email, mail, phone), and develops compelling appeals and other direct response materials for donors and alumni.
• Manages the strategy for leadership annual giving donors and prospects with the goal of renewing and upgrading their support annually.
• Supports the team by gathering information from divisional partners on events, stories, and other donor‑engagement channels.
• Reflects, analyzes, and synthesizes data to prepare program performance reports, identify and quantify opportunities to improve outcomes, and build on successful activities.
• Provides support for Advisory Council activities, including council communications, stewardship initiatives, roster and reporting updates, quarterly newsletter management, and coordination of council meetings and faculty spotlight events, including logistics, materials preparation, registration, and stakeholder engagement support.
• Seeks opportunities for professional development that will enhance job performance, including building networks within the University and with colleagues at peer institutions.
• Has a moderate/high level of authority in drafting informational and marketing materials for review for assigned programs. Assists in developing support materials for specific fundraising activities.
• Cultivates and maintains relationships with donors and volunteers. Establishes and maintains donor records and accounts.
• Performs other related work as needed.

• Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
• Bachelor’s degree.

• Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
• A minimum of two years of relevant professional work experience in nonprofit management, development, alumni relations, marketing, public relations,…