Director of Marketing and Donor Growth Annual Giving
Director of Marketing and Donor Growth Annual Giving
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To be considered for the Director of Marketing and Donor Growth (Annual Giving) opportunity at Rice University please submit your resume and cover letter in confidence to Paradigm Advancement Group at with the subject line: Director of Marketing and Donor Growth (Annual Giving) at Rice University.
Position Summary:
Reportingto the Executive Director Annual Giving the Director of Marketing andDonor Growth (Annual Giving)is a forwardthinking highly innovative partner who leads a team of professionals to develop and execute a sophisticated universitywide direct marketing fundraising role oversees and drives strategy to increase and diversify the number of donors and philanthropic dollars to Rice University with an emphasis on support of current use funds. Additionally this person will manage a team of individuals focused on mass highly segmented solicitations emerging technologies and overall direct response. The Director ofMarketing andDonor Growth (Annual Giving) iskey in the shift to use digital components in fundraising to align with the industry trend that identifies digital as the future and will be a key collaborator acrosscampus.
The ideal candidateis a datadriven strategic thinker with a passion for leveraging modern fundraising and annual giving marketing practices in support of higher education. This person is a collaborative team player andwill have experience in direct marketing emerging fundraising technologies and staff management.
Workplace Requirements:
- Open office environment
- Occasional travel to conferences
- Some weekend and evening work hours are required
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors Degree
- In lieu of the education requirement additional related experience above and beyond what is required on an equivalent year for year basis may be substituted
- 4 years of direct marketing experience preferably in fundraising and/or related experience in development
- In lieu of the experience requirement additional related education above and beyond what is required on an equivalent yearforyear basis may be substituted
Skills:
- Leadership and strategic management skills
- Strong analytical and problemsolving skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Ability to manage a large number of project activities simultaneously
- Ability to engage and motivate groups of diverse individuals
- Strong ability to understand customer needs and show good judgment and diplomacy
- Strong attention to detail and ability to quickly understand and remember details about alumni/donors and projectsto which they assigned
Preferences:
- Three to five years of annualgiving experience at an institution of higher education or nonprofit organization
- 3 years of management experience
- Experience creating and implementing complex multichannel fundraising marketing campaigns
- Experience using generative or predictive artificial intelligence to develop marketing or fundraising strategies
- Ability to direct manage implement and evaluate department operations
- Ability to demonstrate good judgment in dynamic situations
- Ability to display confidence as a mentor and collaborator
- Ability to utilize strong time management skills
- Ability to analyze data and make datadriven decisions to set goals
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite
- Knowledge of emerging fundraising technologies
- Knowledge of project management fundamentals and the ability to influence across teams
- Strong familiarity with fundraising CRM
- Ability to think strategically to work collaboratively to prioritize and to create and follow processes
- Ability to build manage and motivate a team
- Ability to direct staff members students and campus partners in an organized way to carry out the multitude of background details essential in a successful annual giving campaign
- Certificationin digital strategy generative artificial intelligence leadership or nonprofit management
Essential Functions:
- Collaborates closely with the Marketing and Communications team in the Development and Alumni Relations division as well as the Development Information Services team and the Development Research and Analysis team on all fundraising projects and campaigns including but not limited to: Giving Day mailings emails phone calls texting websites and emerging technologies
- Develops and oversees direct marketing and participation fundraising strategies and tracks and analyzes results of development activities guiding future solicitations
- Closely monitors return on investment and makes databased decisions to guide future fundraising strategies
- Designs annual giving programs and goals targeted at increasing philanthropic support for a school a unit or the university and works closely with these campus partners on priority campaigns including Giving Day to help them achieve their fundraising goals
- Works closely with other colleagues in Development and Alumni Relations to align program goals with the overall philanthropic goals of the university
- Monitors analyzes and reports on overall results to internal and external constituencies as needed
- Oversees vendor relationships to ensure accuracy and effectiveness of philanthropic campaigns and monitors budget efficiency with our contracts
- Stays up to date on the latest fundraising trends technologies and strategies and implements them as appropriate
- Manages and leads a team focused onhighly segmented solicitations emerging technologies and overall direct response
- Performs all other duties asassigned
Additional Functions
- Build and manage the universitys solicitation calendar ensuring that all solicitations are segmented targeted maintaining key performance metrics and delivered on time
- Manage audience personas to ensure the right people receive the right message through the right channels at the right time
- Set annual strategy for a corporate matching gift program
- Requires extensive contact within the university at all levels including upperlevel administration in person in meetings in writing and by telephone
- Requires extensive contact outside the university with alumni parents and friends of Rice University often in person with followup by phone or inwriting
Rice University HR Benefits: Mission and Values:Mission and Values Rice University
Rice University is committed to ensuring Equal Employment Opportunity and welcoming the fullness of diversity into our candidate pools. Rice considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race color religion age sex sexual orientation gender identity national or ethnic origin genetic information disability or protected veteran status. Rice also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified persons with disabilities. If an applicant requires a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process please contact Rice Universitys Disability Resource Center ator for support.
If you have any questions please email us at. Thank you for your interest in employment with Rice University.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full-Time
