- Manage a portfolio of major gift ($25,000+) prospective donors, with independent responsibility to develop and execute strategies leading to successful cultivation and solicitation activities.
- Actively solicit prospects and donors and meet mutually established goals related to solicitations, gift closures, prospects met, and qualifications. This includes utilizing various giving vehicles, such as in-kind and planned gifts.
- Develop positive, professional working relationships with staff members within Rutgers-Camden.
- Clearly articulate, in written and verbal form, the needs and priorities Rutgers-Camden to make a compelling case for support.
- Collaborate with Rutgers-Camden fundraisers and Rutgers University Foundation (RUF) colleagues to effectively communicate and comply with operational policies and procedures; accurately analyze and maintain reports, data, and unit documents; and follow RUF policies and procedures as they relate to prospect management, solicitation, and follow-up procedures.
- Ensure timely reporting and tracking of contacts, solicitations, events planning, etc. through RUF tracking systems.
- Develop cutting-edge alumni cultivation strategies and networking activities in partnership with advancement colleagues, including prospect research, alumni records, and donor relations.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Able to meet and exceed individual fundraising metrics.
- Able to successfully execute, devise, and implement an increasingly complex donor pipeline strategy.
- Demonstrate an ability to identify new prospects for assigned units.
- Sustain a strong working relationship with internal and external partners.
- Demonstrate an ability to create an increasingly more complex donor pipeline strategy and work collaboratively with other unit leaders.
- Recruit and effectively manage volunteers.
- Demonstrate an ability to operate autonomously.
- Demonstrate an ability to manage projects.
- Demonstrate an ability to identify new prospects.
- Demonstrate an ability to manage multi-unit proposals.
- Set clear directions for projects.
- Demonstrate a commitment to aligning donor intent to university priorities.
- Ability to be consistent with owning your voice.
- Office-centric hybrid work schedule.
- Comprehensive medical
- Comprehensive no cost dental, and no cost vision insurance for employee and dependents
- 403(b) plan with matching employer contribution
- Three weeks of paid time off annually, as well as accrual of five wellness day annually
- Nine holidays, as well as four flex days
- Parental leave
- Significant tuition reductions
- Professional development is highly valued at the Rutgers University Foundation, where employees are encouraged to look across the organization to develop new skills and abilities for professional career progression.
- $40 monthly cell phone reimbursement
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Associate Director of Development - Camden, United States - Rutgers University-Camden
Description
Job Details
Description
The Rutgers University Foundation (RUF) seeks a mission-driven, entrepreneurial, and collaborative advancement professional to serve as its Associate Director of Development. The ADOD will proactively seek out connections with individuals to raise philanthropic support on behalf of Rutgers-Camden and programs across the University. This is an exceptional opportunity to join an institution that is at the vanguard of generating new ideas to improve society and that operates with a true sense of purpose.
The ADOD will cultivate prospects and donors rated at the leadership and major gift level, actively soliciting prospects and donors but also developing a meaningful stewardship strategy to ensure continued engagement and giving. The ADOD will play a critically important role in fully building out the fundraising portfolio for initiatives that support the Rutgers-Camden strategic plan, focusing on relationship-driven donor cultivation while also seeking new opportunities for philanthropic support and identifying new prospects through community interaction (internal and external).
Reporting to the Vice Chancellor for Advancement, the ADOD will work closely with the fundraising team at Rutgers-Camden. The ideal candidate brings a minimum of three years of fundraising experience with a track record of success in identifying donors and establishing partnerships with individuals. The incoming ADOD thinks strategically and creatively in their efforts to build pipelines and relationships with cultural fluency, empathy, and high emotional intelligence. The candidate is a natural business builder with an approach that believes there are no dead ends but only new avenues to pursue; offers an authentic and collaborative approach that builds trust; and the professional maturity, respect, and intellectual curiosity to partner with multiple deans, faculty, and colleagues. They must be a self-starter and be able to handle complex organizational details while multitasking.
Essential Functions
Skills and Abilities
Consistency
Contributions
Competencies
Leadership
Education/ Qualifications
Bachelor's degree and three to five years of progressively responsible experience in fundraising, advancement, non-profit, or higher education. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in a higher education environment and university student affairs. Master's degree preferred.
Mental Demands
Clarity of focus while juggling complex projects or deadlines.
Working Conditions
This position requires working evenings, weekends, or odd hours to meet resource-raising commitments. Typical working conditions with an absence of disagreeable elements. Travel is also required to meet external constituent's schedules. This position requires little physical effort.
Benefits
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is Foundation policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other category protected by law. As an institution, we value diversity of background and opinion, and prohibit discrimination or harassment based on any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, termination or any other terms and conditions of employment.
