Job Title:
Director of Annual Giving
Job Summary:The Director will develop and implement annual giving strategies and programs that include the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of annual gifts from alumnae, parents, friends of the college, faculty, staff, and students through personal solicitations, direct mail, electronic communications and the TeleFUND.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:Bachelor's degree and five years of professional fundraising experience are required. Demonstrated ability to raise funds is essential and previous experience supervising professional staff, teams of volunteers, and student fundraisers is preferred. This position requires strong customer service focus and outstanding written, verbal and time management skills. Professional demeanor with the ability to interface with internal and external customers with diplomacy and tact is essential. Incumbent must be a competent and energetic team player with strong management and fundraising skills. Candidates must demonstrate knowledge of the principles and practices associated with contemporary Annual Giving in higher education, which includes direct mail, telephone solicitations, reunion giving, personal solicitations, and donor relations. The incumbent will be results-oriented individual who demonstrates the ability to motivate staff and volunteers in a fast-paced environment. This employee must be a visionary thinker who makes quick recommendations and is accountable for setting and achieving ambitious goals. The ability to effectively write proposals, project plans and other documents that are presented to all constituencies of the College is required. The incumbent must possess excellent oral communication skills, which includes persuasive presentations to leadership volunteers, alumnae, faculty, staff, students, parents and the general public. Ability to interpret, derive, forecast, and understand fundraising data to develop program strategies that will successfully reach yearly department goals is critical. Ability to respond effectively to sensitive inquiries and constituency complaints is essential.
Preferred Qualifications:Demonstrated ability to raise funds is essential and previous experience supervising professional staff, teams of volunteers, and student fundraisers is preferred.
Physical Demands:While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit, walk, use hands to handle office supplies, operate computer and other office equipment, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to: reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to: stand and lift and/or move up to 15 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to adjust focus.
Shift:Days
% Travel Required:1% - 25%
Full Time/Part Time:Full-time
FLSA:Exempt
Number of Vacancies:1
Posting Number:SC0324P
Posting Open Date:10/19/2021
Open Until Filled:Yes
EEO Statement:Spelman College is an EEO/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran/Title IX Employer and we participate in E-Verify. We are a smoke-free campus.
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