Assistant Director, Reunion and Volunteer Giving
Assistant Director, Reunion and Volunteer Giving
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About Rice:
Boasting a 300-acre tree-lined campus in Houston Texas Rice University is ranked among the nations top 20 universities by U.S. News & World Report. Rice has a 6-to-1 undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio and a residential college system which supports students intellectually emotionally and culturally through social events intramural sports student plays lecture series courses and student government. Developing close-knit diverse college communities is a strong campus tradition which is why Rice is highly ranked for best quality of life and best value among private universities.
Rice is also a wonderful place to work. Rice faculty staff and students share values that are essential to our success as a healthy community. Those values guide our decisions and behaviors and shape Rices culture. They come through in the way we treat each other and the welcome we extend to our visitors. These values can be recalled simply by our name RICE Responsibility Integrity Community and Excellence.
Position Summary
The Assistant Director Reunion and Volunteer Giving is a member of Rice Universitys Annual Giving class and program management team and will be responsible for developing strategy and tactics to increase participation among key Rice constituencies including but not limited to undergraduate alumni graduate-level alumni students parents faculty/staff donors and volunteers with a focus on increasing annual giving total dollars raised. The Assistant Director will develop and implement one or more strategic program plans as part of the comprehensive annual plan and will also manage the fundraising efforts for a program and/or a portfolio of classes that may also work through a five-year reunion cycle. The Assistant Director will engage with and personally solicit high profile donors and volunteers within an actively managed portfolio to achieve the ambitious annual giving goals in a given fiscal year.
The ideal candidate will haveexperience soliciting leadership-level gifts managing volunteers and projects and facilitating peer-to-peer solicitation.
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree
- One year of related experience in fundraising program or project coordination volunteer management and/or related experience (experience may be gained while a student)
- Skills Required
- Ability to learn new strategies
- Written and verbal communication skills
- Data analysis skills
- Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Good organizational and time management skills
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office suite
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team to meet expected deadlines and schedules
- Attention to detail and ability to quickly understand and remember details about alumni/donors and projects to which they are assigned
- Experience with direct mail telemarketing and/or database marketing
Essential Functions
- Provides recommendations for the design of appeal materials developed by the marketing team
- Tracks and analyzes results of development activities to determine the effectiveness of outreach efforts
- Makes recommendations to manager for more effective solicitation appeals
- Works with a portfolio of assigned prospects to prioritize solicitation based on data analysis prepare background information and as appropriate engage with volunteers to further solicitation priorities
- Monitors analyzes and reports on overall results to internal and external constituencies as needed
- Performs all other duties as assigned
Additional Functions
- Up to 30% out-of-town travel
- Some weekend and evening work hours required
Preferences
- Experience
- Two or more years of experience in annual giving preferably at an institution of higher education
- Experience working with volunteers to achieve goals set for time-based campaigns
- Experience making face-to-face solicitations especially at a leadership giving level ($2500 and above)
- Experience in manipulating database information
- Experience with peer-to-peer fundraising software
- Experience using generative or predictive artificial intelligence to develop fundraising strategies
- Skills
- Ability tothink strategically and to prioritize as well as to create and/or follow processes
- Personal initiative curiosity to learn and flexibility to adjust ones schedule to accomplish important tasks
- Demonstrated desire to help grow a strong program into an even stronger one
- Knowledge of fundraising database software
- Familiarity with fundraising in a higher education environment
Workplace Requirements
- Must possess(or have the ability to obtain one within 30 days of hire) and maintain a valid Texas drivers license with no more than three moving violations and/or at fault accidents within the past 36 months and no convictions or deferred dispositions for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) or Driving Under the Influence (DUI) within the past five years
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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 at or 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
