What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Director of Development, Rutgers Business School position at Rutgers University Foundation?
Reporting to the Senior Director of Development (SDOD), the Associate Director of Development (ADOD) focuses on major gifts from individuals and corporate and foundation partnerships. Working alongside staff, faculty and leadership volunteers from across Rutgers Business School, the ADOD will translate the Deans funding priorities in a way that is compelling and targeted based on the audience of current and prospective donors. The ADOD will identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward prospects and donors, with an eye toward building the major gift pipeline.
Essential Functions
Leadership
Bachelor's degree and/or 4 years of professional experience in fundraising preferably in a higher education environment.
Working Conditions
This position requires clarity of focus while juggling complex projects or deadlines with little physical effort. Will work evenings, weekends, or odd hours to meet resource-raising commitments. Typical working conditions with an absence of disagreeable elements. This position requires some early mornings and late evenings to accommodate meetings, travel, events, and external constituents’ schedules.
Workplace Arrangements
This is classified as an office-centric hybrid position. Colleagues working under an office-centric hybrid arrangement have a primary workstation in a university or foundation location and are in the office between one and five days a week. The frequency with which they are present in the office depends on their role and function and the interdependency of other functions.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is Foundation policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants. The Foundation prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and/or local laws. Equal employment opportunity applies to hiring, placement, transfer, promotion, demotion, recruitment, advertising or solicitation for employment, treatment during employment, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, layoff, or termination.
Essential Functions
- Manage a portfolio of major gift ($25,000 ) prospective donors, with independent responsibility to develop and execute strategies leading to successful cultivation and solicitation activities.
- Actively solicit prospects and donors and meet mutually established goals related to solicitations, gift closures, prospects met, and qualifications. This includes utilizing various giving vehicles, such as in-kind and planned gifts.
- Strategically use faculty time and resources as it relates to donor meetings, special events, and School/University leadership meetings to maximize donor engagement throughout the cultivation, solicitation and stewardship phases of a gift.
- Collaborate with the Rutgers Business School Alumni and Corporate Engagement team on events and activities where donors are or may be present.
- Collaborate with peers across the Rutgers Foundation events and activities where donors are or may be present, as well as on gifts as warranted.
- Other duties as assigned
Leadership
- Set clear direction for projects that require volunteer or student intern support, provide feedback and develop staff
- Manage assigned programs, projects and/or sub teams
- Manage a personal major gift donor/prospect portfolio with a focus on securing gifts at or above the $25,000 level
- Ability to devise strategies and execute on increasingly complex projects (interdisciplinary initiatives)
- Develop and submit written corporate and foundation proposals, budgets and other collateral materials as needed for securing sponsorships and small grants ($25K ) philanthropic investments
Bachelor's degree and/or 4 years of professional experience in fundraising preferably in a higher education environment.
Working Conditions
This position requires clarity of focus while juggling complex projects or deadlines with little physical effort. Will work evenings, weekends, or odd hours to meet resource-raising commitments. Typical working conditions with an absence of disagreeable elements. This position requires some early mornings and late evenings to accommodate meetings, travel, events, and external constituents’ schedules.
Workplace Arrangements
This is classified as an office-centric hybrid position. Colleagues working under an office-centric hybrid arrangement have a primary workstation in a university or foundation location and are in the office between one and five days a week. The frequency with which they are present in the office depends on their role and function and the interdependency of other functions.
Equal Employment Opportunity
It is Foundation policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants. The Foundation prohibits discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, familial status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, and any other characteristics protected by applicable state, federal and/or local laws. Equal employment opportunity applies to hiring, placement, transfer, promotion, demotion, recruitment, advertising or solicitation for employment, treatment during employment, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, selection for training, layoff, or termination.
Salary : $25,000
