Director of Athletics Development​/Associate Director of Athletics

Dev Investment Fund Initiative, Lincoln Center, Rose Hill

Fordham University

Fordham University has an excellent reputation as a dynamic institution located in New York City. Founded in 1841, Fordham enrolls more than 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students in its 9 Colleges and Schools.

• Fordham University offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package to its employees, which includes medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• We offer tuition remission for employees and their dependents
• A generous employer match towards a 403(b)
  retirement plan
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• As part of its work-life balance program, the University provides generous PTO including 15 vacation days, 12 sick days, 2 personal days, 6 summer Fridays, and holidays that include paid time off between Christmas and New year.
• University employees have access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). EAP provides no-cost, professional, and confidential services, to help employees and family members address a variety of personal, family, life, and work-related issues.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Athletics Development/Senior Associate Director of Athletics, the Director of Athletics Development/Associate Director of Athletics works closely with colleagues within DAUR and Athletics Departments to maximize philanthropic support and nurture a healthy pipeline for Fordham Athletics. Fostering a culture rooted in care for the whole person (cura personalis), this position utilizes reflective discernment to lead the identification, qualification, cultivation, and solicitation of individual annual gift and leadership annual gift prospects.

This position requires travel as well as evening and weekend hours.

• Manages and executes athletic fundraising via direct marketing and events, building an inclusive community that brings prospective annual, leadership annual, and major gift donors closer to Fordham Athletics.
• Develops and executes annual fundraising plans for the Athletics Department and each component team, ensuring alignment with the University’s mission to advance the broader common good.
• Builds and maintains a portfolio of approximately 100 leadership annual gift and annual gift prospects.
• Utilizes reflective discernment to devise sophisticated, individualized engagement strategies for each prospect in their pool. Builds enduring relationships rooted in a mutual vision between donors and the University to solicit annual gifts and/or multi-year gift commitments at the $25,000+ level with specific solicitation goals to be determined in an annual goal-setting process.
• Ensures annual giving solicitations and stewardship marketing pieces are compelling, inclusive, and capture the athletics program’s commitment to magis. Collaborates with the Fordham Fund to plan and execute athletic-specific Giving Tuesday and Fordham Giving Day opportunities.
• Collaborates with the SDAD, director of athletics, coaches, and staff to determine and prioritize fundraising opportunities for the department and individual teams, translating athletic needs into compelling narratives of shared purpose.
• Collaborates with DAUR colleagues to plan and execute cultivation, fundraising, and stewardship events and works closely with the Alumni Relations team to plan and execute events in conjunction with games both in New York and throughout the U.S.
• Applies the principle of cura personalis to staff development, balancing ambitious goals with genuine care for team members’ well‑being and professional growth.

This list is not intended to be an exhaustive list.

The University may assign additional related duties as necessary.