Job Description
Location: Chicago, IL
Job Description:
- Identifies, recruits, trains, and manages fundraising volunteers; acts as liaison for Gift Chairs and Reunion committees.
- Works with Gift Chairs to produce solicitation letters.
- Works with Gift Chairs to identify and solicit prospects in each class as well as achieve 100% participation on each reunion committee.
- Ensures that monthly giving reports are prepared for Gift Chairs.
- Supports each new reunion class in meeting reunion giving goals.
- Maintains consistent and clear communication with Gift Chairs and fundraising volunteers.
- Works with each Gift Chair to recruit additional fundraising volunteers.
- Stewards individual class campaigns and coordinates with Events team to plan and execute class-specific gatherings.
- Produces and submits timely call reports on all visits and/or pertinent phone calls.
- Coordinates and collaborates with Alumni Engagement and Advancement teams on volunteer communications, events, and programming.
- Visits, qualifies, and solicits individual prospects for leadership gifts of $2,500 or more.
- Develops and conducts major gift solicitations individually, or in partnership with the Individual Giving team.
- Hires, trains, and manages additional staff members who will be responsible for similar volunteer fundraising-based class gift and reunion campaigns.
- Collaborates with Annual Fund direct appeals staff to develop and produce direct mail, telefund, and email initiatives to promote Reunion and Class-based fundraising.
- Partners with Individual Giving team on cultivation and solicitation of major gift and principal gift prospects.
- Partners with Deansâ™ offices, MBA program offices, Career Services, Leadership Development Office, and faculty centers to develop mutually beneficial student and alumni fundraising programs.
- Attends University events as a representative of Chicago Booth .
- Provides expertise to the development of plans to solicit prospective donors and meet campaign goals. This includes speaking to new prospects persuasively about the case for annual giving support.
- Ensures quality control when monitoring various marketing channels by developing a targeted strategy for solicitation and marketing materials as well as campaign appeals, solving a range of complex problems as they arise.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor's degree or higher.
Experience:
- A minimum five years of professional work experience in nonprofit management, development, alumni relations, marketing, public relations or similar work experience.
- Planning and managing programs, developing and monitoring budgets.
- Managing volunteers.
- Major gift solicitation experience.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
- Demonstrated skill and knowledge of, or ability to learn quickly the technology tools available to Booth Advancement, including Griffin (the University's Donor Relationship Management System), a Microsoft Windows computer environment, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access.
Preferred Competencies
- Strong verbal and writing skills, high attention to detail and follow-up, and excellent organizational skills.
- Strong commitment to customer service.
- Manage confidential information with discretion and tact.
- Demonstrated skill and knowledge of, or ability to learn quickly, the internal workings of the University.
- Strong leadership qualities, including the ability both to delegate and execute, thereby leading by word and by example; work collegially and collaboratively in a team setting.Â
- An exceptional work ethic and track record of personal initiative; outstanding interpersonal and communications skills characterized by the ability to listen, speak, and write well.
- Flexible and adaptable to new programs in an emerging and changing environment.
- Travel to campus and/or non-campus locations for University business.
- Understanding of the University of Chicago, its history, organization and modus operandi.
Working Conditions
- This position is currently expected to work a hybrid schedule.
- Work evenings and weekends.
Application Documents
- Resume/CV (required)
- Cover Letter (required)
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