Director of Annual Giving - Reading, United States - Austin Preparatory School

Austin Preparatory School

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Reading, United States

4 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

position of Director of Annual Giving. Founded in 1961, Austin Prep is an independent co-ed
Catholic school in the Augustinian Austin Prep enrolls approximately 800 students in grades 6-12 and
employs 75 faculty.
The Director of Annual Giving reports to the Director of Development and is responsible for the
strategic design and implementation of Austin Prep's comprehensive annual giving program, the
Austin Prep Fund. The Director leads programs, events, initiatives, and communications aimed at
increasing current-use giving and donor participation while supporting the School's greater
development and campaign goals. The Director strengthens existing relationships and builds new ones
while increasing participation and giving to the Austin Prep Fund, creating a pipeline for future
philanthropic giving to the school.

Responsibilities include:

Supporting the School and its leadership in advancing the mission of Austin Prep and

safeguarding the School's Roman Catholic identity and Augustinian heritage.

Develop, implement, and manage strategies for maximizing philanthropic support of the

Austin Prep Fund, including all goals, objectives, and tasks in an effort to build unrestricted
Annual Fund giving to the $1M level, a in the next 3-5 years. Collaborate with the
Development and senior leadership to align strategies with the school's goals and vision.

Create and manage detailed plan for the Austin Prep Fund. including objectives, approach

brief for appeal materials, and roles for volunteers, and communications to educate and
solicit constituents.

Determine donor targets by constituent groups while building strategies for moving

donors to higher annual giving levels.

Oversee all annual giving programs including annual Day of Giving, faculty/staff

campaigns, parent class agent program, senior gift, and other activities.

Manage a prospect pool of roughly 100 leadershiplevel annual giving prospects with

annual goals for personal visits and advancing relationships.

Develop and execute an effective and sustainable volunteer program to encourage

annual giving, including Class Ambassadors, Parent Annual Fund Volunteers,
Faculty/Staff Volunteers, etc.

Supervise data entry, report writing and generation, and gift processing, and all additional

aspects of the school's constituent relations software.

Develop Austin Prep Fund donor recognition efforts and stewardship opportunities and

assist in the production of the Annual Report and other publications.

Work with the Director of Alumni Engagement to support class reunion giving, and

maintain high visibility in the school community, attending a variety of student, parent,
admissions, and alumni events.

Pursue professional development opportunities to implement best practices in alignment

with the school's pace of change and growth.

We are looking for someone with 5-7 years of successful direct fundraising experience, event planning,
or account management, preferably in an academic setting. An independent and strategic thinker
capable of understanding the full scope of an annual fund campaign while seeing individual tasks
simultaneously, possessing an ability to prioritize multiple tasks and manage deadlines effectively,
while working with a high level of integrity and extraordinary work ethic. The ability to work creatively
to match donor interests with the school's priorities and build meaningful relationships with
individuals for purposes of cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of gifts to the school.

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND SEARCH PROCESS
Our Commitment to Mission
The mission of Austin Prep is to "inspire hearts to unite, minds to inquire, and hands, to serve"
which we exemplify through the Augustinian charisms of veritas, unitas, and caritas. Austin Prep a
Roman Catholic Augustinian secondary school committed to Catholic social teaching which is based
on and inseparable from our understanding of human life and human dignity. Every human being is
created in the image and likeness of God and is therefore invaluable and worthy of dignity and
respect as a member of the human family.

mission of Austin Prep and the School's Catholic identity. We seek applicants who can help enrich
the School's Roman Catholic Augustinian mission and can help advance our commitment to what
members of underrepresented groups. In their cover letter, in addition to indicating why they are
help support our Catholic faith and our Augustinian heritage.