Major Gifts Officer (Hybrid Location - NY, NJ, CT)
- Employer
- Pratt Institute
- Location
- New York, United States
- Salary
- $100,000.00 - $100,000.00
- Closing date
- May 31, 2023
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- Position Type
- Fundraising, Fundraising Administration, Major Gifts
- Fields
- Academic Centers, Education
- Employment Type
- Full Time
The Aspen Leadership Group is proud to partner with Pratt
Institute in the search for a Major Gifts Officer.
Reporting to the Associate Vice President for Institutional
Advancement, the Major Gifts Officer will manage a portfolio of 120
to 150 major gift prospects and work collaboratively within
Institutional Advancement and across Pratt faculty, staff, and the
Board of Trustees to secure gifts that advance the strategic goals
of the Institute. The Major Gifts Officer will monitor prospect
contacts to ensure positive and purposeful prospect and donor
relations while recommending and assisting with the building and
maintaining of relationships across campus. The Institute works
under a hybrid model. The Major Gifts Officer is expected to be on
campus once a week as well as for special events and additional
meetings as necessary. The Major Gifts Officer also will be
required to travel as part of their core work. Preference will be
given to candidates living in the tri-state area, New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut.
Pratt Institute is a top-ranked college with opportunities in art,
design, architecture, liberal arts and sciences, and information
studies that provides the creative leaders of tomorrow the
knowledge and experience to make a better world. What began as a
radical experiment to expand access to creative careers is now a
community of 5,137 undergraduate and graduate students working
across 48 programs with 1,200 dedicated faculty. The Institute’s
impact expands beyond its 25-acre residential campus in Brooklyn to
cutting-edge facilities throughout the borough, a landmark building
and public gallery in Manhattan, as well as an extension campus,
PrattMWP College of Art and Design in Utica, New York. Since its
founding in 1887, Pratt has prioritized diversity and
inclusion—welcoming students from all walks of life while
developing and sustaining pathways to more equitable workplaces and
careers. Pratt provides a collaborative, interdisciplinary research
and inquiry-based education that prepares students for success in
creative fields and professional practice, with the goal of
contributing to a fairer and more sustainable world. With a
long-held commitment to the communities of New York, Pratt partners
locally through the Pratt Center for Community Development to work
for a more just city. The Institute also offers a variety of
programs for local pre-college and continuing education students in
the Center for Art, Design, and Community Engagement K-12 and the
School of Continuing and Professional Studies. The value of a Pratt
education is evident in its graduates’ diverse and thriving
careers, where their designs, art, work, and environments have
reimagined our world. In over 75 countries across the globe,
Pratt’s 61,000 alumni are advancing the creative economy and making
a positive impact.
The mission of Pratt Institute is to educate artists and creative
professionals to be responsible contributors to society. Pratt
seeks to instill aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge,
collaborative skills, and technical expertise in all graduates. A
Pratt education is firmly grounded in the liberal arts and
sciences, and blends theory with creative application in preparing
graduates to become leaders in their professions.
At Pratt Institute, diversity is represented by a mosaic of
individuals from a variety of races, ethnicities, religions, gender
expressions, sexualities, geographic backgrounds, cultures, ages,
abilities, and socioeconomic groups. As a leading college of art
and design devoted to a creative learning community, Pratt
recognizes the strength that stems from a diversity of
perspectives, values, ideas, backgrounds, styles, approaches,
experiences, and beliefs.
Pratt Institute will consider candidates with a broad range of
backgrounds. A bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of
education and experience and at least five years of major gift
fundraising experience within higher education is preferred. All
applications must be accompanied by a cover letter and résumé.
Cover letters should be responsive to the mission of Pratt
Institute as well as the responsibilities and qualifications
presented in the prospectus.
The salary for this position is $100,000 annually.
Preference will be given to applications received by June 6,
2023.
To apply for this position, visit:
https://opportunities.aspenleadershipgroup.com/opportunities/1269.
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