Executive Director of Gift Planning

Bryant Group is proud to partner with Emory University to recruit the
Executive Director of Gift Planning.

The Executive Director of Gift Planning will serve as the University's lead planned gift strategist and a key development and administrative leader for Advancement and Alumni Engagement overseeing and ensuring the success of the Office of Gift Planning. The successful candidate is responsible for managing the office and a staff comprised of gift planning officers and support staff who ensure that a high level of donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship occurs.

This position calls for a strategic visionary who thrives in a complex and fast-paced environment and has a track record of success in principal and planned gift fundraising in an academic institution or other comprehensive nonprofit organization. Experience as an estate attorney and financial planner will also be considered.

Emory is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the second-oldest private institution of higher education in Georgia and ranked as one of the top 25 universities in the nation.

Emory University has nine academic divisions: Emory College of Arts and Sciences,Oxford College,Goizueta Business School, Laney Graduate School, School of Law, School of Medicine, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing,Rollins School of Public Health, and the Candler School of Theology.

Emory serves 15,000 students with more than 80 majors, 60+ minors, and more than ten pre-professional programs. Emory University students come from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, five territories of the United States, and over 100 foreign countries.

Responsibilities:(partial list)
• Provide leadership to and manage the Office of Gift Planning.
• Create and manage the goals, annual plans, and budget of the Office of Gift Planning and ensure appropriate alignment with unit's yearly plans.
• Evaluate and update gift planning operations, procedures, and marketing and training programs.
• Identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward planned giving prospective donors for gifts to support University priorities.

Minimum Requirements:
• A bachelor's degree and eight years of experience in gift and estate planning in the private sector, higher education, or other nonprofit organization.
• Minimum of five years managing staff.
• Experience working with bequests, trusts, tax deferred gifts, and life income gifts with a strong working knowledge of tax, trust, and other laws affecting charitable planning.
• Strong interpersonal and problem-solving skills with attention to detail, the ability to work with ambiguity, and navigate a complex work environment.

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Priority will be given to application materials received by November 29, 2022

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