Associate Director, Reunion and Class Giving

The Associate Director, Reunion and Class Giving at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business leads programs supporting the Annual Fund, with a focus on reunion and class-based fundraising. This role involves recruiting, training, and managing volunteer fundraising committees, identifying and soliciting alumni prospects, and collaborating across Booth’s Alumni Engagement Team and other teams within the Office of Advancement. The Associate Director also serves as a liaison to departments and senior staff, mentors, volunteers, and helps build a strong pipeline of donors and volunteers to support the school.

The compensation range for this position is $75K - $90K (depending on experience and skills).

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Identifies, cultivates, and solicits prospective donors who have the capacity to make financial commitments of $2,500 to $100,000 or more.
2. Identifies, recruits, trains, and manages fundraising volunteers; acts as liaison for fundraising volunteers, reunion committees, and other class-based fundraising opportunities.
3. Works with fundraising volunteers to identify and solicit prospects in each class and supports each new reunion class in meeting reunion campaign fundraising goals.
4. Maintains consistent and clear communication with fundraising volunteers and ensures that monthly giving reports are prepared and shared with volunteers.
5. Has a deep understanding of plans to solicit prospective donors and meet campaign goals. This includes speaking to new prospects persuasively about the case for annual giving support.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

1. Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s degree preferred.
2. A minimum of five years of professional work experience in nonprofit management, development, alumni relations, marketing, sales, public relations or in a related job discipline required.
3. Demonstrated experience in planning and managing programs required.
4. Demonstrated success in soliciting and closing individual leadership gifts preferred.
5. Working knowledge of managing volunteers required.
6. Demonstrated skill and knowledge of, or ability to learn quickly, the internal workings of the university as well as the technology tools available to the Office of Advancement, including Phoenix, the university’s alumni and donor database of record, Zoom, a Microsoft Windows computer environment, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access required.
7. Willingness and ability to travel to campus and/or non-campus locations for university business are required.
8. Willingness and ability to work evenings and weekends required.

“The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.

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