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Director of Individual Giving

Employer
Hamilton College
Location
Clinton, NY

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Director of Individual Giving

Location:
Clinton, NY
Open Date:
May 16, 2022
Description:

The Director of Individual Giving is a dynamic individual who can juggle several initiatives simultaneously. In addition to supervising a team of 6 gift officers, the director plans overall strategy for gift officers, including their work with prospects related to the Because Hamilton campaign. The director is extensively involved in creating and implementing campaign strategy and prospect development strategy related to other initiatives identified by the President and the College’s senior leadership team, and also works directly with the Vice President for Advancement and Hamilton’s president to identify and implement fundraising strategies for presidential prospects.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and motivate a team of gift officers using qualitative and quantitative methods to achieve fundraising goals
  • Develop donor-centric strategies and proposals that will lead to 6- and 7-figure gifts.
  • Travel with the president and other senior staff to engage key prospects and lead donors in the process of cultivating and soliciting potential donors.  Oversee the president’s and the senior staff’s travel calendars as it relates to prospect cultivation and make certain all briefing materials are up to date and shared in advance of meetings.
  • Organize and lead philanthropic strategy sessions, and actively take part in all aspects of campaign operations. Participate in other strategy and operational meetings as requested.
  • Manage a portfolio of principal and major gift prospects and donors.
  • Work with the Director of Donor Relations and the Director of Advancement Promotions to bring prospects to College Hill for substantive visits and to create a selection of engagement opportunities.
  • Partner with Constituent Engagement colleagues to create a robust pipeline of Hamilton Fund leadership gift prospects that will feed the major and principal gift pipeline.
  • Partner with development research to identify leadership and major gift prospects.
  • Coordinate strategies and foster effective communication between all frontline fundraisers, donor relations, development research and information services.
  • Partner with the prospect management team to provide a data-informed approach that ensures staff members execute strategies that result in the meaningful engagement and solicitation of prospects.
  • Lead discussions related to the overall program and efforts to maximize lifetime relationships and philanthropic support from alumni, parents and friends.

Qualifications:
  • B.A. or equivalent required
  • Proven experience in higher education fundraising

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Personal track record of completing 6 and 7 figure gifts.
  • Demonstrated ability to motivate teams to achieve goals and individual members to close 6+ figure gifts
  • Excellent interpersonal and leadership/management skills;
  • Articulate and persuasive written and oral presentation skills;
  • Genuine affinity for the liberal arts and the mission of Hamilton College – able to learn and understand Hamilton’s priorities and to advocate and articulate them to donors and prospects;
  • Collaborative problem solver with an entrepreneurial approach
  • Innovative, self-motivated, able to manage multiple projects well, working both independently and as a team member;
  • Creative, positive outlook, and sense of humor;
  • Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, work ethic;
  • Time-sensitive, goal oriented, deadline driven.

Application Instructions:

Please submit cover letter, resume and contact information for three professional references. Consideration of candidates will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.


Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

Hamilton College is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer and encourages diversity in all areas of the campus community.

Organization

Working at Hamilton College 

Hamilton College is one of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges. It is independent, highly selective, coeducational and residential. Originally founded in 1793 as the Hamilton-Oneida Academy and chartered in 1812 as the third oldest college in New York State, Hamilton is today composed of 1,850 students from nearly all 50 states and 50 countries. It is distinguished by a faculty of 190 men and women dedicated to teaching and scholarship, by rigorous academic programs, by an emphasis on teaching students to write well and speak persuasively, and by a commitment to diversity in its broadest sense. The College, with an endowment nearing $1 billion (October 2017), is need-blind in admission and has invested more than $265 million in new and renovated facilities in the past dozen years.  

Hamilton is located on a wooded 1,350-acre hilltop campus overlooking the New England-style Village of Clinton, New York, in close proximity to the Adirondack Park, where hiking, skiing, fishing, boating and snowmobiling abound. The campus is within a 4-5 hour drive of New York, Boston, Toronto and Philadelphia, and there is a rich variety of cultural opportunities on campus and in nearby Utica (10 minutes), Syracuse (45 minutes) and Cooperstown (55 minutes).

As a national leader for teaching students to write effectively, learn from each other and think for themselves, Hamilton produces graduates who have the knowledge, skills and confidence to make their voices heard on issues of importance to their communities and the world. Additional information about Hamilton can be found at hamilton.edu/facts.

Hamilton College is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity employer committed to attracting diverse and interesting people to its community.

Company info
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Telephone
315-859-4011
Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton
New York
13323
US

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