Job DetailsLevel ExperiencedJob Location Mount St. Joseph University - Cincinnati, OHPosition Type Full TimeEducation Level 4 Year DegreeDescription Purpose:

The Manager of Annual Giving serves as a principal member of the Annual Giving Team which is responsible for the conceptualization, organization, and implementation of a comprehensive, strategic annual giving program. The cornerstone of this program is the Mount St. Joseph Annual Fund’s 1920 Society for donors providing unrestricted operating gifts of $1,000 or more annually.

A broad base of alumni and community support will be solicited through direct mail, telephone, reunion giving, giving days, and special campaigns, as well as through limited personal solicitations. The Manager will be called upon to conduct personal solicitations with alumni, parents, and corporate donors. The Manager of Annual Giving will be responsible for creating an annual plan to increase annual giving from a pool of targeted individuals, corporations, and friends of the University. The position reports to the Executive Director of Alumni Engagement.

Duties:

• Develops and executes fundraising strategies which annually increases both the number of donors and annual gift totals.
• Manages the annual giving telephone campaign for the University.
• Interview, appoint to payroll, train, schedule, and supervise paid student callers and student managers who make fund-raising telephone calls to prospects.
• Recruit, train, motivate and supervise volunteer callers, including alumni, faculty, staff, students, and friends of the University.
• Prepare daily telephone campaign activity reports for the Executive Director of Alumni Engagement
• Maintain the calling center computer database.
• Supervise evening calling sessions, up to five evenings per week for six to eight weeks each semester.
• Coordinate the recording of pledges into The Raiser’s Edge administrative database.
• Work closely with the Executive Director of Annual Engagement to handle correspondence, questions, and research generated by the telephone campaign.
• Work with University Communications in conceiving, writing, editing, and designing publications, coordinating mailing in a timely manner, and preparing job cost information and campaign results for internal and external production of direct mail appeals for the annual fund.
• Assist the Executive Director of Alumni Engagement in making personal solicitations for gifts to the 1920 Society of the annual fund, including telephone, mail, and select face-to-face solicitations.
• Advise the Student Alumni Association, to provide resources and opportunities for networking and leadership development in order to promote student involvement in educational advancement.
• Develop and execute fund-raising strategies, which annually increase both the number of donors and annual gift totals, with input from the IA Team.
• Develops and implements a class giving strategy and manages reunion giving.
• Assists with donor recognition clubs and activities.
• Performs other duties as directed or required.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Baccalaureate degree required.
• Five years of experience in a comparable goal-oriented environment required.
• Management experience with professional staff preferred.
• Familiarity with the University and its programs required and alumni of the University preferred.
• Knowledge of the educational fundraising process, fundraising strategies, and philosophy, promotional writing, and editing, direct mail, data processing, word processing are helpful.
• Proven ability to engage people and quickly build rapport.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with people within and outside the Office of Advancement. Able to exercise good judgment with minimum supervision.
• Working knowledge of The Raiser’s Edge software, Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Excel.
• Facilitates a work environment that encourages knowledge of, respect for, and development of skills that engage with those of other cultures and backgrounds.
• Contributes to the overall success of the Office of Institutional Advancement

Primary Contacts:

Executive Director of Alumni Engagement and members of the Institutional Advancement Team

Supervision Received:

Works under general direction toward broadly defined objectives; refers specific problems to the Executive Director of Alumni Engagement.

Qualifications A demonstrated ability and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Education

Minimum Bachelor's degree

Skills, Attributes

Customer Service

• Exhibits a “donor first” orientation in providing exceptional service in all responsibilities and interactions demonstrating versatility in handling people and situations;
• Adapts willingly and quickly to changing priorities, responsibilities, and division needs and expectations; anticipates, identifies and meets donors’ needs.
• Available for evening and weekend work as necessary. Some travel required

Accuracy

• Maintains a high level of accuracy, consistently reviewing work to detect errors, oversights or omissions

Initiative

• Takes immediate and independent action when necessary assuming initiative for creative problem solving

Technical

• Accomplishes tasks with follow through to completion
• Possess an aptitude for technological development and its implications for appropriate automation of office.

Work Environment

• Normal office environment. Flexible schedule and evening hours during student phone-athon, homecoming, and reunions
• Availability: Screening of applicants will begin upon receipt of resume. Cover letter required.

To apply, please send e-note, resume, and contact information with three professional references.

A review of resumes will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.

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