Events and Annual Appeals Coordinator

Description

Job Title: Events and Annual Appeals Coordinator

Supervises: Mission Advancement Coordinator(s)

Supports: Archabbey and Seminary

Reports To: Chief Mission Advancement Officer

Primary function: Understanding the overall missionary focus and collaboration of mission activities of the Archabbey and Seminary. Provides leadership for fundraising, events, retreats/pilgrimages, and donor and alumni relations. All activities will support the fiscal health, resource development, communications, and strategic planning functions in order to maintain, strengthen, modify, and develop new aspects of the mission as represented in the Archabbey and Seminary.

Education: Bachelor's degree

Experience: 3-5 years experience in events, writing, relationships, public speaking, and assisting in marketing and communications. Must be able to be poised and discrete, working with many different groups.

• Resources:
• Oversee all fundraising activities, scheduling, and coordination for the annual fundraising campaigns.
• Write solicitations, brochures, articles, and the like promoting and highlighting the works of the archabbey and seminary.
• Lead agent for Archabbey and Seminary events working with volunteers, vendors, outside contractors and inside and outside of Saint Vincent.
• Maintain regular contacts with mid-level donors via calls, emails, events, and correspondences.
• Planning:
• Organize, coordinate, and support events with donors, friends, retreatants, and the like.
• Maintain reservations, RSVPs, collect ticket and retreat payments and deposits.
• Work with the Executive Leadership and support staff to draft, modify, and implement strategic plans to support mission activities.
• Provide regular reports and updates on the plan's execution to the BOR and Executive staff.
• Collect invitations and assemble correspondences with retreatants, donors, and friends.
• Communications and Marketing:
• Compose flyers, brochures, letters, and articles and oversee publications developed for engagement, awareness, and solicitation of funds.
• Produce reports for boards, grantors, individual donors, accreditation bodies, and Archabbey and Seminary leadership.

Position may require potential foreign and domestic travel and may require duties to be performed outside of traditional working hours.

Saint Vincent College is an educational community rooted in the tradition of the Catholic faith, the heritage of Benedictine monasticism, and the love of values inherent in the liberal approach to life and learning. Our mission is to provide quality undergraduate and graduate education for men and women to enable them to integrate their professional aims with the broader purposes of human life.

The programs, activities, and encounters that make up student life at Saint Vincent College encourages the intellectual gifts, professional aptitudes and personal aspirations of students to mature harmoniously.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any category protected by applicable federal, state or local law, including but not limited to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, uniformed service member status or any other characteristic protected by law.