Senior Associate Director, Prospect Management - University Advancement

Washington University in St Louis • Clayton, MO

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Associate Director is an exciting opportunity for a data-driven, mid-career professional eager to contribute to a collaborative, strategic team. This role coaches and manages 2–4 prospect management staff members while spurring strategic pipeline movement by aligning data with action, and overseeing the effective, coordinated deployment of prospects and processes. While the role concentrates on prospects across both Leadership, Major, and Principal giving levels, also includes oversight of the assignment of Eliot Society accounts. Core responsibilities include managing and developing relationships with fundraisers and their leadership; maintaining the integrity of prospect data; driving portfolio construction and health; coordinating prospect movement between pipeline stages and capacity levels; preparing performance insights and trend analysis; spurring moves management; facilitating prospect strategy sessions; and advising frontline fundraisers and colleagues on prospect management best practices. Success in this role requires a strong customer-service orientation, a data-driven mindset, and the ability to translate complex information into actionable insights for fundraisers and leadership. As part of the Prospect Management team, this position supports unified, donor-centric fundraising strategies through close partnership with fundraisers and campus partners. The Senior Associate Director will work alongside another Senior Associate Director and report to the Senior Director of Prospect Management. This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position based on campus, with an optional hybrid schedule.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• Relevant Experience (3 Years)
• Ability to compile, report, and analyze information from diverse sources.
• Ability to understand problems from a broad, interactive perspective and conceive strategic solutions.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to confidently facilitate prospect strategy discussions.
• Ability to manage up and out, crossing organizational hierarchies.
• Experience in a prospect development or prospect management function or in a fundraising, nonprofit, or higher education setting.
• Master's degree
• Non-Profit Fundraising Organization (3 Years)
• Higher Education Fundraising With Comprehensive University (3 Years)
• Business Practices
• Client Services
• Coaching
• Communication
• Complex Systems
• Confidentiality
• Critical Thinking
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software
• Deadline Management
• Detail-Oriented
• Interpersonal Communication
• Microsoft Office
• Optimism
• People Management
• Problem Solving
• Professional Ethics
• Professional Integrity
• Project Management
• Prospect Development
• Prospect Management
• Proven Commitment
• Relationship Building
• Sound Judgment
• Time Management
• Work Collaboratively

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with gift officers from one or more teams to manage prospects effectively by developing fundraising strategies that move prospects through the fundraising cycle and ensure optimal distribution of prospective donors to fundraiser portfolios.
• Hire, manage, coach, and mentor 2-4 prospect management staff.
• Provide critical support in management, maintenance, and integrity of prospect data.
• Liaise with prospect research team members as needed to deliver key information about managed prospects while building a broad and deep understanding of fundraising metrics to provide the information that supports the management of prospects through the development cycle.
• Serve as a key advisor to gift officers in the creation, implementation, and management of the prospect management policy and business processes.
• Ensure that the best prospects are actively managed by front line fundraisers.
• Regularly monitor fundraising activity/progress for continuity and compliance with the Prospect Management Guidelines.
• Provide analysis to advise leaders on fundraising performance and recommendations on cultivation and solicitation strategies and ask amounts.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Up to 22 days of vacation, 10 recognized holidays, and sick time.
• Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance.
• Free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees.
• Defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan, which combines employee contributions and university contributions starting at 7%.
• Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians, and more!
• 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child.
• Family care resources are also available for your continued childcare needs.
• Adult care resources.
• Tuition for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level