Director of Annual Giving - University Development and Alumni Engagement
About The Position
The Director of Annual Giving reports directly to the Associate Vice President of Administration and Engagement and is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing the university’s robust annual giving program. This includes the development of long and short-term annual giving initiatives; preparing, recommending and executing a defined scope of services as a unit in support of Cal Poly’s mission and vision, department-specific strategies and goals, and the needs of the UDAE division. The role of the University Development and Alumni Engagement (UDAE) Division is to foster strong relationships with external partners while enhancing support for Cal Poly. University Development and Alumni Engagement does this by implementing an overall advancement program that includes alumni and parent engagement, community outreach, coordinated fundraising efforts, donor relations, gift processing, trust and endowment management, training and systems support for the donor database, and Cal Poly Foundation support and administration.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree and four years of progressively responsible professional experience in development, major gifts fundraising, donor relations, marketing, planned giving or other related professional experience with two years being direct fundraising experience.
- Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
- Possession of a valid driver’s license or the ability to obtain by date of hire.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for direct leadership and management of the Annual Giving program, including solicitation efforts for annual and leadership annual gifts (all gifts below $25,000) while determining the appropriate, ongoing relationship with prospects/donors.
- Develop, establish and implement performance objectives and strategies for the overall program, including recommendations to campus leadership on strategies to achieve goals.
- Responsible for developing and coordinating university-wide external annual giving messaging and managing a university wide solicitation calendar.
- Manage a personal portfolio of an assigned number of prospective annual leadership level prospects/donors, while maintaining confidentiality.
- Manage prospect, identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
- Conduct an assigned number of significant substantive donor meetings annually.
- Submit an assigned number of major gift proposals annually.
Benefits
- health, dental and vision insurance
- retirement participation in the Public Employees' Retirement System
- educational benefits for eligible employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
