Annual Giving Manager

Le Jardin Academy, located in Kailua, HI is Hawai‘i’s only International Baccalaureate World

School offering students a world-class IB education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12.

Founded in 1961, Le Jardin Academy unites 910 students and nearly 200 faculty and staff and

their families around its mission to cultivate a community of learners who embrace hana pono

to positively impact the world. Its graduates attend the best universities across the world and

are equipped to serve in whatever community they reside. As a community, we value individual

pathways, excellence, innovation, peace, and relationships.

The Annual Giving Manager is responsible for managing and executing annual giving, donor

stewardship, alumni engagement, and constituent communication programs that support

philanthropic participation and strengthen connections to Le Jardin Academy. Working

collaboratively with the Director of Development and Advancement team, this role coordinates

fundraising appeals, engagement initiatives, communications, events, and stewardship

activities for alumni, grandparents, parents, donors, and friends of the school. Through

relationship-building, project management, and thoughtful execution, the Annual Giving

Manager helps foster a culture of philanthropy and meaningful community engagement in

support of the school's mission. This position reports directly to the Director of Development

and serves as an integral member of the Advancement Team.

• Develop and implement strategies to cultivate, solicit, and steward annual fund donors
• Plan and execute integrated, multi-channel fundraising campaigns utilizing digital,
• print, social media, crowdfunding, phone outreach, and emerging technologies.
• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with current and prospective donors
• through personalized outreach, engagement, and solicitation.
• Monitor, evaluate, and refine annual giving strategies to increase donor participation,
• retention, and philanthropic support.
• Generate donor lists, campaign reports, and audience segmentation strategies to
• Identify, research, and qualify new and existing prospects among alumni, grandparents,
• former faculty and staff, past trustees, alumni families, and friends of the school.
• Support the development of a robust donor pipeline by facilitating meaningful
• engagement opportunities and tracking constituent interests and interactions.

• Coordinates donor stewardship activities to ensure that all donors are acknowledged
• and celebrated for their generosity and understand the impact of their gift(s)
• Develop and execute constituent communication strategies, including the writing,
• production, and distribution of monthly alumni newsletters and quarterly
• communications for grandparents and alumni parents, ensuring alignment with the
• school's key messages, engagement goals, and advancement priorities.
• Generate creative messaging, mailing lists, and reports for annual giving, stewardship
• activities, and donor communications
• Write and personalize donor gift acknowledgments and stewardship activities
• Coordinate cultivation and stewardship events and special projects as assigned,
• including alumni gatherings, grandparent engagements, and donor cultivation events.
• Maintain proficiency in Raiser’s Edge NXT and adhere to departmental data
• management procedures and best practices.

• Lead and grow Bulldogs Forever, Le Jardin Academy's alumni engagement program, by
• expanding alumni contact information, increasing participation, and strengthening
• alumni connections to the school.
• Support graduating seniors and their families in transitioning to active alumni
• Develop and execute alumni engagement initiatives, communications, and programs
• that encourage lifelong involvement with Le Jardin Academy.
• Plan and coordinate alumni events, reunions, regional gatherings, campus visits, and
• networking opportunities.
• Establish annual goals, benchmarks, and key performance indicators for alumni
• engagement, participation, volunteerism, and giving.
• Track, analyze, and report on engagement, participation, fundraising results, and other key
• performance metrics on a regular…