Director of Development
Director of Development
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13-04-2025
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13-04-2025
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The Putney School is seeking a Director of Development a twelvemonth leadership position to begin work on or before June 1 2025. The Director of Development is responsible for leading Putneys philanthropic efforts including planned giving capital giving and annual fundraising. Supervising a fourperson team and collaborating extensively with the head of school this key role serves as a bridge between Putneys campus and external communities and brings significant revenue into the school.About The Putney School: Putney is a progressive boarding school for 225 hardworking and curious students in Putney Vermont. Handson learning is embedded in the schools culture: a working dairy farm expansive arts offerings a robust work program miles of wooded trails and large solar arrays serve our curriculum. Employees are also part of an intentional residential experience that values belonging and community. We seek applicants who find joy in their work and help others realize how much fun authentic studentcentered learning can be. The school cultivates and sustains an educational community that values differences. Community members explore how they contribute to building a home at Putney where everyone especially those from historicallymarginalized populations can honor their individual racial gender ethnic and socioeconomic identities. Putney recognizes this is difficult communal work. The school supports all its employees in developing this critical skill is currently putting the finishing touches on a landmark $35million capital campaign the largest in the schools history by a factor of three. The effort has led to the construction of new dorms and a planned new theater wing. Through the campaign the school has discovered somewhat dormant and previously untapped philanthropic potential in the community. Moving forward Putney will need to keep growing its capacity and continue to make fundraising a part of the school culture. This is both a challenge and an opportunity for the community. In the fall of 2025 Putney will embark on its next strategic planning process designed to help grow the schools position as a leading progressive school in the country and the resources needed to achieve this goal.Responsibilities:
- Develop strategies for capital planned giving and major gift campaigns and oversee/support annual fund efforts.
- Strategically manage a portfolio of Putneys largestcapacity donors through the donor cycle.
- Guide the head of school in cultivation of and relationshipbuilding with prospective donors.
- Oversee production of fundraising statements stewardship pieces brochures acknowledgement processes tax documents endowment reports and website content.
- Build relationships with volunteers major donors and other school constituents.
- Guide Putneys outreach during events build and support the overall engagement calendar.
- Serve as staff liaison to the board of trustees on development matters.
- Supervise the Development Office and its functions including data management alumni relations the annual fund student engagement volunteer activity and major giving.
- Travel approximately 1012 weeks annually.
- Institutionalize recent gains in annual giving (current annual fund goal is $1.25 million) and achieve annual 5 growth targets.
- Further metric and datainformed leadership of the Development Offices frontline fundraisers and support team to inform thorough outreach solicitations and follow through.
- Absorb planned giving into strategies for major gift capital and endowment campaigns to ensure strong growth in this area.
- Competitive compensation depending on experience.
- Health benefits paid vacation and 403(b) retirement plan contributions.
- Oncampus housing is possible.
- Professional development opportunities.
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