Gift Planning Executive Director

Position Highlights

The Gift Planning Executive Director leads the strategy growth and execution of RITs comprehensive planned and deferred giving program advancing significant philanthropic investment in support of university priorities. As RITs senior subject-matter expert in charitable gift planning the Executive Director sets program direction and partners with university and advancement leadership to identify and advance sophisticated gift opportunities.

The Executive Director personally manages a portfolio of high-capacity prospects and donors developing and executing strategies that result in significant outright blended estate and other complex planned gifts. Working directly with donors and their professional advisors the Executive Director structures and negotiates charitable arrangements while leading consultation with fundraisers across University Advancement on planned giving strategies and opportunities.

As a senior leader the Executive Director is accountable for strengthening RITs planned giving pipeline and long-term philanthropic support integrating planned giving across the donor lifecycle and collaborating with senior leaders Trustees volunteers and colleagues across RIT to advance institutional fundraising priorities.

University Advancement

RITs University Advancement builds meaningful relationships with alumni parents friends corporations foundations and other partners whose engagement and philanthropy advance the universitys mission. The division is a collaborative forward-thinking environment that values trust accountability innovation and shared expertise. Advancement professionals have the opportunity to connect supporters with transformative initiatives that fuel student success groundbreaking research experiential learning and programs that shape the future of technology health sciences and creative problem-solving.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Identifies cultivates solicits and stewards leadership annual gift and major gift donors and prospects in coordination with faculty staff and volunteers
• Manages a robust portfolio of prospects creates fundraising strategies develops relationships with donors solicits gifts and coordinates effective donor stewardship
• Develops an understanding of the educational research operational and financial needs and goals of assigned college
• Cultivates relationships with alumni parents companies and other friends and collaborates with the teams in planned giving principal giving alumni relations parent engagement regional advancement and corporate and foundation relations to encourage donors to support university initiatives
• Plans coordinates and directs special events for donors and prospects
• Updates the prospect management database with information related to donor strategies proposals contacts and results
• Other duties as assigned

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of cultivating soliciting and closing gifts
• Skill in written and verbal communication
• Ability to network establish and foster working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple projects take initiative and coordinate follow-up
• Ability to collect synthesize and process information quickly and accurately

Minimum Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in related field
• 12 years of relevant experience
• Equivalent combination of experience and education may be considered

Job Level Overview

Specialized Contributor Level 5 - An expert-level role functioning as a leading authority in the profession or field of work. Projects or programs of critical university-wide strategic importance are regularly managed with substantial consequences of success or failure. Typically responsible for coaching mentoring reviewing and delegating work.

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Application Materials

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Additional Details

In compliance with NYSs Pay Transparency Act the salary range for this position is listed above. Rochester Institute of Technology considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position candidates work experience education/training key skills internal peer equity as well as market and organizational considerations when extending an offer. The hiring process for this position may require a criminal background check and/or motor vehicle records check. Any verbal or written offer made is contingent on satisfactory results as determined by Human Resources. RIT provides equal opportunity to all qualified individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of race color creed age marital status sex gender religion sexual orientation gender identity gender expression national origin veteran status or disability in its hiring admissions educational programs and activities. RIT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities under the Rehabilitation Act the Americans with Disabilities Act the New York Human Rights Law or similar applicable law.

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