Associate Director of Annual Giving & Donor Relations

Associate Director of Annual Giving & Donor Relations

Job No: 541123

Work Type: Full Time

Location: Main Campus (Gainesville, FL)

Categories: Advancement, Executive/Director/Management, Office/Administrative/Fiscal Support

Department:  - ED-DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI

Classification

Title:

ASO DIR, Donor Relations

Classification

Minimum Requirements:

Master's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and one year of appropriate experience in donor relations or related field; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and three years of appropriate experience in donor relations or related field.

• Manage and execute annual giving initiatives while developing and implementing long-term strategies to grow donor participation and annual fund revenue. This includes overseeing direct mail, digital, and web-based fundraising campaigns that inspire philanthropic support for the College, department, and program priorities, while building a sustainable pipeline of future major gift donors.
• Effectively move annual donors through the solicitation pipeline, working with the central annual giving team, digital fundraising, and major gift team in the College of Education.
• Serve as the COE liaison to central's Annual Giving team as well as work with the Leadership Annual Giving Liaison where appropriate.
• Participate in goal setting with central advancement annual giving and fundraising teams, both for the year and upcoming campaign.
• Draft communications for direct mail appeals, personalized letters to donors and potential donors, fundraising brochures, proposals, tailored pledge forms.
• Research and stay current on trends in the field of higher education advancement, annual giving, and philanthropy. Suggest new initiatives and/or improvements in annual giving outcomes.
• Serve as the COE liaison to all UF Giving Day activities and serve as the team lead on execution of COE giving day strategies.
• Manage the Dean's Leadership Circle campaign to maintain and secure additional leadership circle members.
• Prepare reports and presentations on annual giving trends.

• Manage and execute a comprehensive and integrated donor relations program and stewardship plan for major donors and alumni. Assist Executive Director and Associate Director of Development with individual stewardship plans.
• Administer a comprehensive recognition program, including the Dean's Leadership Circle donors, that creatively and strategically engages prospects and donors, as well as recognizes them for their contributions and informs them about the use of their gifts to the university.
• Evaluate weekly giving reports to determine the need for gift acknowledgements, custom acknowledgements.
• Review the weekly giving report to uncover unmanaged prospects with $1000 (or more) in unsolicited giving for possible gift officer outreach and referral.
• Serve as the liaison between COE and the central Donor Relations team.
• Manage the Annual Endowment Reporting process from preparing the needed content to central Donor Relations team.
• Regularly review the COE prospects that are in a permanent stewardship portfolio and share timely college news with those prospects. Liaison with central Donor Relations for this effort.
• Leverage recognition tools like Thankview as well as project management tools effectively.
• Serve as the team lead on Grateful Gator Day events with the central Donor Relations team and create ways to steward COE donors on that day.
• Coordinate VIP donor visits/tours to the college.
• Work collaboratively with the Development Coordinator to review and produce personalized milestone birthday and anniversary recognition pieces.

• Maintain the list of philanthropy-funded scholarships and donors.
• Work with the Edu Gator Team and COE Business Office to ensure all scholarships are awarded and follow donor criteria.
• Ensure scholarship donors are invited to participate in the Scholarship and Awards Banquet. Follow up with them to ensure receipt of the invitation and encourage participation.
• Coordinate timely and intentional stewardship for scholarship donors.
• Perform related duties as required or…