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Associate Regional Director, Annual Giving
University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame (ND.jobs) is accepting applications for a Associate Regional Director, Annual Giving.
Applications will be accepted until 03/06/2025.
If you are ready to embrace each day, knowing that your work advances the mission of Notre Dame to make a positive, lasting impact in the world, then you have found the best role you will ever have.
Located on the beautiful campus of Notre Dame, this front-line fundraiser role supports the University's development efforts. The Associate Regional Director works with a portfolio of 1000 people to unlock the grace of giving in advancing Notre Dame's mission. Using proven relationship skills, you will work closely with Development Department colleagues to identify, cultivate, steward, and secure unrestricted funds from benefactors in your specific geographic region.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Use strategy to identify, cultivate, and solicit gifts that join together the interests of donors with unrestricted and giving society opportunities at the University
- Develop relationships with current and potential benefactors whose resources will be integral to supporting the mission of Notre Dame
- Establish and maintain a rapport with each benefactor to sustain the benefactor's philanthropic relationship with Notre Dame
- Create a digital fundraising strategy for your portfolio, including video and phone calls
- Attend a significant number of regional and campus events as a representative of the University, following safety guidelines and protocols; evening and weekend activity is routine
- Travel approximately once a month
- Promote teamwork and support within Annual Giving and across Development, acting as a liaison between Annual Giving and other areas of the Development Department
- Perform administrative tasks such as scheduling visits, managing a budget, organizing contact reports, manipulating data in Excel, and reading reports to maximize work efforts.
Why You Will Love This Role:
Relationships are at the core of how we build and develop Notre Dame. If you want to work on a highly collaborative team that exudes positivity while exercising dauntless determination to hit goals and directly impact Notre Dame's students and mission, this role is for you.
Work Environment:
You will travel to and call benefactors in your designated region, connecting them to campus and joining together their interests with unrestricted and giving society opportunities at the University. This role is typically 40 hours/week but sometimes requires additional hours for operational needs. Typical needs include Notre Dame Football home games and Notre Dame Day, our annual day of giving. We also offer hybrid scheduling (3 days in office, 2 days remote).
Our mission is to be a Force for Good in the world, and that means supporting your goals, too! Whatever matters most to you, from childcare to professional development to retirement, the University of Notre Dame offers an amazing array of benefits to support and enhance wherever you are in life. To learn more, visit Our Benefits Page!
If you feel a close connection to Notre Dame - the mission, the people, the campus, and the impact that we make together - this will be the best place you ever call home.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree and 3 years of professional experience
- Superb interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
- Comfortable and effective in dealing with high net-worth individuals, with the ability to easily develop rapport with the networks of leadership-level benefactors
- Strong time management and organizational skills: process management from concept to execution
- Effective at building collegial working relationships and thrives in a highly collaborative, cross-team environment
- Ability to travel one-third to half of your work time; you own your travel schedule, which varies by season
- Comfortable cold calling benefactors at a high volume
- Ability to manage multiple projects in different stages simultaneously, along with proficient use of technology
- Familiarity with the University of Notre Dames values, brand, and objectives
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications:
- Understanding of non-profit administration and/or how philanthropy plays a role in an organizations success
- Demonstrated success in cultivating and soliciting gifts while simultaneously inspiring deeper commitment through relationships
- Expertise in AI, data, or technology that drives giving
ABOUT NOTRE DAME:
The University of Notre Dame, founded in 1842 by Rev. Edward F. Sorin, C.S.C., of the Congregation of Holy Cross, is an independent, national Catholic university located in Notre Dame, Ind. For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Notre Dame has received Honor Roll distinctions as one of the top 10 higher education workplaces in the country in the Chronicle of Higher Education's annual "Great Colleges to Work For" survey...and we are proud of it!
This appointment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. Applicants will be asked to identify all felony convictions and/or pending felony charges. Felony convictions do not automatically bar an individual from employment. Each case will be examined separately to determine the appropriateness of employment in the particular position. Failure to be forthcoming or dishonesty with respect to felony disclosures can result in the disqualification of a candidate. The full procedure can be viewed at https://facultyhandbook.nd.edu/?id=link-73597.
Equal Opportunity Employment StatementThe University of Notre Dame seeks to attract, develop, and retain the highest quality faculty, staff and administration. The University is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and is committed to building a culturally diverse workplace. We strongly encourage applications from female and minority candidates and those candidates attracted to a university with a Catholic identity. Moreover, Notre Dame prohibits discrimination against veterans or disabled qualified individuals, and requires affirmative action by covered contractors to employ and advance veterans and qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with 41 CFR 60-741.5(a) and 41 CFR 60-300.5(a).
APPLICATION PROCESS:
Please apply online at http://ND.jobs to Job # S251836. For additional information about working at the University of Notre Dame and various benefits available to employees, please visit http://hr.nd.edu/why-nd. The University of Notre Dame supports the needs of dual career couples and has a Dual Career Assistance Program in place to assist relocating spouses and significant others with their job search.
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