Associate Director, Major Gifts - Weinberg; Hybrid

Job

Location:

Evanston, Illinois

Alumni Relations & Development

EXS/10

For full consideration, please submit a cover letter with your application.(at paragraph)

The Associate Director, Major Gifts for the Judd

A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is responsible for identifying, qualifying, cultivating, and skype major gift support from a prospect pool of alumni, friends, and family members. The Associate Director will build a balanced portfolio of prospects through qualifying visits, cultivation of prospects, prospect solicitation that align with prospects' interests and financial capacity and stewarding current donors. This role interfaces with colleagues from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, including deans, faculty, program directors and other University leaders to prepare them for prospect meetings and support their alumni engagement activities.

The Associate Director works as a member of Weinberg College Development team within ARD to fundraise for the College's priorities in coordination with the dean's strategic plan. This position also collaborates with colleagues from teams across Alumni Relations and Development (e.g.TCP leadership and annual giving, reunions, donor relations, marketing and communications, planned giving).

For full consideration, please submit a resume and cover letter.

• Strategic Planning, Prospecting, and Gift Work
• Gathers data, assesses leads, and develops strategies designed to realize the current and life-time giving potential of individual prospects.
• Maintains consistent and appropriate contact with prospects.
• Facilitates or makes major gift solicitations of six figures or more.
• Ensures effective stewardship of donors.
• Develops, plans, and implements strategies and approaches to identify, solicit, and close major gifts of six-figures or more.
• Builds and manages a portfolio of approximately 45 prospects by strategically moving them through the major gift pipeline.
• Collects and synthesizes information from campus partners to prepare compelling donor proposals that strategically align with donor interests and their full philanthropic capacity.
• Gathers, records, and retrieves information about prospects and donors utilizing University database and research resources.
• Ensures compliance with prospect management guidelines and reporting.
• Frequently travels to visit with alumni and donors to assigned domestic regions.
• Collaboration:
  
  involves moderate- to-high-level of collaboration with both internal department partners and moderate level of collaboration with broader University partners to identify and integrate resources to accomplish strategic goals & objectives.
• Partners with other areas of development, specifically Annual & Planned Giving to coordinate contacts.

Performs other duties as assigned.

• Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree; OR appropriate combination of education and experience.
• 4 years development, marketing, sales or the equivalent experience is required.
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