Director, Development

UT Health San Antonio • San Antonio, TX

21h

About The Position

Directs and coordinates funds raising efforts for the School of Dentistry and coordinates institution-wide fund raising activities within the school.

Requirements

• Experienced fundraiser with strong knowledge of institutional advancement and development.
• Ability to make persuasive presentations to the community and close major and planned gifts.
• Demonstrated leadership in raising major gifts to advance strategic organizational goals in a University environment.
• Experience utilizing Salesforce database software.
• Ability to travel as required to maintain relationships with donors and to cultivate prospects.
• Excellent writing and communication skills with the ability to write complex documents in a prescribed format including proposals and grants, also correspondence and letters.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint) required.

Responsibilities

• Identifies and cultivates sources of funding.
• Leads the solicitation of major gifts for defined school and institutional priorities.
• Manages a portfolio of high potential prospects and collaborates with the institutional advancement team to coordinate cultivation and solicitation strategies to close gifts to drive private support for the school and institution.
• Leads the strategic development of relationships with donors and prospects in a manner that best meets the needs of the donor and maximizes fundraising potential for institutional priorities.
• Collaborates with the Dean, Associate Deans, Department Chairs, Program Directors, faculty and staff to prepare and submit private funding proposals.
• Responsible for donor stewardship plans for assigned prospects.
• Establishes and maintains strong and effective relationships.
• Utilizes Salesforce database to coordinate donor plans and donor recognition as well as report on progress of activity.
• Plans and implements short, medium, and long-range fund raising programs to meet current and future needs.
• Provides supervision and management of department employees.
• Measures and assesses performance for employees and contributes to decisions regarding assignments, schedules and promotions.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for department personnel hiring and termination.
• Performs all other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed