Director of Leadership Gifts (Hybrid Remote)
- Employer
- Friends Select School
- Location
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Salary
- $92,000.00 - $100,000.00
- Closing date
- Oct 7, 2022
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- Position Type
- Fundraising, Annual Fund, Capital Campaigns, Corporate and Foundation Relations, Donor Relations, Fundraising Administration, Major Gifts
- Fields
- Education
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The Director of Leadership Gifts is a vital member of Friends Select’s Advancement team. This position is responsible for developing strategies to increase operating support for the school through the Benefactors Society and Pennsylvania State tax credits, creating a pipeline of potential major donors, and increasing leadership gifts. The position involves some major gift fundraising and alumni relations activities.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
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Identify and cultivate relationships
with alumni, parents, parents of alumni, grandparents, and partner
organizations who have the potential to make leadership gifts and
leverage connections to benefit the school
Manage all aspects of the Benefactors
Society leadership giving program and develop a plan for
significant growth over the next three years
Manage peer solicitation
software
Plan Benefactors Society stewardship
events and activities with support from the advancement events
coordinator
Manage a portfolio of prospects for
identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship working
in conjunction with the development team
Manage all Education Improvement Tax
Credits (EITC), Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credits (OSTC), and
Pennsylvania State tax credit fundraising, develop a plan for
significant growth over the next three years, and manage the
relationship with the Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund
Using constituent data, develop a
pipeline of new potential major prospects for leadership giving,
tax credit support, and major gifts
Support the Alumni Relations Program
as needed, including
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Manage the National Alumni Board
(NAB) and its annual meeting, communications, and activities
Coordinate two or more alumni
reunions and reunion class gifts each year.
Develop communication and programming
strategy to educate, engage, and solicit young alumni/ae, starting
with Friends Select's upper school students
The ideal candidate has the following:
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Fundraising experience
Experience in building relationships
and willingness to ask for gifts to the school
Experience working towards aggressive
goals with adherence to metrics and strategy plans
Excellent interpersonal and
communication skills
Comfort and strong skills with
technology including Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, Microsoft Word,
Excel, and Blackbaud databases
A commitment to social justice and
anti-racism
Bachelor’s degree
Interested candidates should send a letter of interest and resume to Christine Jefferson, Chief Development Officer via the school's website. The deadline for applications is October 6, 2022.
Friends Select School is a 618-student, co-educational, pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade, college preparatory, independent school located in Center City Philadelphia. As a Quaker school committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, FSS actively seeks and warmly welcomes applicants from diverse and underrepresented populations. Friends Select School provides programs and services and equal opportunity in the administration of its educational and admissions policies, financial aid programs, employment, and the selection of its governing board without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected class status.
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