The Assistant Director is a frontline fundraising position responsible for managing class-based reunion fundraising campaigns and securing leadership gifts from alumni.

Job Duties:

• Reports to the Director of Alumni Relations
• Assist the Director and other staff members in working strategically to reach the non-reunion and reunion fundraising goals.
• Implement a reunion gift program for assigned reunion classes:
• Identify and solicit committee members and lead gift prospects for each class, coordinating with appropriate development staff.
• Determines and executes fundraising strategies to increase reunion class giving, including personal cultivation and solicitations, management of peer-to-peer solicitations, appeals, events, stewardship activities, and strategic visits by School leadership.
• Support fundraising committee members in soliciting peers.
• Create a positive volunteer experience for committee members.
• Strategically plans events and programs in support of fundraising activities and partners closely with Alumni Relations to ensure partnership between Reunion fundraising and Reunion program committees and activities
• Strategically engages the Graduate College, HU Online, and other programs to highlight special anniversary milestones and reunion celebrations.
• Help coordinate Philanthropy Awareness Week/Annual Day of Giving Pre-Week
• Increase participation and donor acquisition through increased use of volunteers in the Class Agent program:
• Manage and oversee monthly class calls with Class Leaders to ensure awareness and alignment with University goals.
• Identifies, enlists, and manages volunteer leadership who serve as partners in driving class fundraising activities.
• Advises on class fundraising strategies, participates in class leadership conference calls, surveys class leadership and donor prospects, and determines solicitation strategies for leadership gift prospects.
• Oversees a portfolio of reunion and non-reunion classes and is responsible for the development and management of class gift committees.
• Identify Lead Annual Giving donors:
• Qualify and solicit alumni with the capacity to make lead annual gifts of up to $2500, coordinating with appropriate departmental and advancement staff.
• Determines and executes fundraising strategies to increase reunion class giving, including personal cultivation and solicitations, management of peer-to-peer
• solicitations, appeals, events, stewardship activities, and strategic visits by School leadership
• Partners with Direct Marketing colleagues on the development of a reunion appeals strategy.
• Help coordinate with the Office of Advancement’s Annual Fund staff to organize strategic calling and direct mail solicitation.

Qualifications:  

• Master’s degree or bachelor’s degree and 2-5 years’ experience; or will accept a combination of related education and experience in substitution.
• Demonstrated initiative, independent judgment, and a positive, responsive, service-oriented attitude.
• Excellent critical thinking, interpersonal, communication, time-management and problem-solving skills
• Commitment to diplomacy, tact, and confidentiality when working with individuals on and off campus and responding to Advancement audiences.
• A great degree of flexibility and outstanding organizational skills with the demonstrated ability to manage multiple and competing projects concurrently while adhering to strict deadlines.