Director of Leadership Gifts
Director of Leadership Gifts
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Western Reserve Academy seeks an enthusiastic collaborative experienced and goaloriented development professional to help identify qualify cultivate solicit and steward donors to help reach the schools financial goals. The director will join a successful development team amid an ambitious Bicentennial Capital Campaign and play a significant role in securing leadership gifts while also helping to implement best practices as we expand an already robust leadership gifts program. Reporting to the Assistant Head of School for Advancement this fulltime position is based on our picturesque 190acre campus in Hudson OH.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage a portfolio of approximately 150 leadership gift prospects and donors.
- Identify research and visit donors who through research demonstrate capacity and affinity to the school.
- Develop individualized fundraising strategies that include cultivation solicitation and stewardship plans.
- Work closely with colleagues in the Annual Giving Program Advancement Services Alumni Relations and other stakeholders to execute a moves management system within the database and play a key role in its implementation in the department. Utilize data and metrics to benchmark efforts inform strategic and tactical decisionmaking and identify solicitation opportunities.
- Implement identification qualification cultivation and stewardship activities that strengthen longterm relationships with leadership prospects and donors.
- Plan and develop substantive experiences for groups of donors both virtual and in person.
- Educate donors about the financial priorities of the school and inspire donors to support those efforts.
- In and outofstate travel to cultivate and solicit donors will be required.
- Maintain accurate and up to date information in Raisers Edge documenting interactions with the donor.
- Help with other projects as assigned.
Competencies and Skills:
- Collegial and collaborative team player.
- Five or more years of experience in frontline fundraising ideally in an educational setting
- A proven ability to close gifts of $50000 and up.
- Experience cultivating and securing gifts from prospective donors.
- Confidentiality and excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong initiative and problemsolving skills are all essential as are attention to detail and the ability to establish priorities and work accurately under time constraints.
- Must have familiarity with Raisers Edge or other fundraising databases.
- Must be committed to building a respectful welcoming and inclusive environment.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines and maintain disciplined adherence to department goals.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree
- Five years of direct fundraising experience
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