ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR DEVELOPMENT - MICHAEL G. FOSTER SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Req #: | 151158 |
Department: | UW ADVANCEMENT |
Job Location: | Seattle Campus |
Posting Date: | 07/03/2019 |
Closing Info: | Open Until Filled |
Salary: | Salary is commensurate with education and experience. |
Shift: | First Shift |
Notes: |
As a UW employee, you will enjoy generous benefits and work/life programs.
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As a UW employee, you have a unique opportunity to change lives on our campuses, in our state and around the world. UW employees offer their boundless energy, creative problem solving skills and dedication to build stronger minds and a healthier world.
UW faculty and staff also enjoy outstanding benefits, professional growth opportunities and unique resources in an environment noted for diversity, intellectual excitement, artistic pursuits and natural beauty. All of which has allowed the UW to be nationally recognized as a “Great College to Work For” for four consecutive years.
UW Advancement has an outstanding opportunity for an Associate Director for Development - Michael G. Foster School of Business.
With more than 3,000 students across 14 degree programs, 60,000 alumni contributing to companies’ and economies’ successes around the world, and based in one of America’s fastest growing and most vibrant cities, UW Foster provides an amazing opportunity for fundraising success. Joining 30 professionals working across alumni engagement, development and marketing & communications, you will be part of a dynamic team adding momentum to a business school already on the move:
• Private support will enable UW Foster to soon construct its third new building since 2010.
• Our full-time MBA program has held the #1 position for job placement among ranked schools for three consecutive years, and no program has advanced more since 2001 across the major media rankings.
• Foster held the Financial Times’ #3 position world-wide for research productivity last year.
• First-year Dean Frank Hodge brings both new energy exceptional experience. Having joined the UW faculty in 2000, Frank knows what it will take to realize our school’s potential.
Responsibilities
The colleague we seek will hold front-line fundraising responsibilities as an active member of a philanthropy team generating more than $20 million annually. This may include some domestic travel. Reporting to Foster’s Senior Director of Individual Giving, the associate director will establish and pursue personal goals, objectives and strategies for high-touch, results-focused major gift fundraising for 125 individuals capable of $100,000+ gifts through activities including the following:
Activities in Support of prospect identification and engagement
REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor's degree and five years of progressively sophisticated frontline fundraising, with an emphasis on long-term philanthropic relationships and orchestration of gift solicitations that are at a significant financial level for the organization or equivalent education or experience.
Full-time professional office experience utilizing strong interpersonal and customer service skills. This includes poise, collegiality and the abilities to both protect confidential information and express oneself clearly and empathetically in interactions internally and externally.
Demonstrated ability to:
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except where there are legal requirements such as license/certification/registration.
DESIRED REQUIREMENTS
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