The Assistant Director of Annual Giving is a key member of the External Affairs team and must have a keen understanding of the principles of fundraising and the mission of the Law School. This position helps develop the Law School’s donor pipeline through the identification, qualification, solicitation, and stewardship of prospective donors. The Assistant Director of Annual Giving also leads the Law Firm Challenge, a program that drives significant participation and dollars raised. Responsibilities include developing and executing law firm fundraising strategies, managing volunteers, and maintaining relationships with alumni and staff at law firms. The Assistant Director also participates in planning and program management and is accountable for annual productivity goals.
Responsibilities
- Grows the number of qualified prospects who support the Law School by meeting virtually and in person with alumni, soliciting leadership annual gifts and pledges and developing major gift leads. Helps establish relationships with prospective donors at all levels of giving.
- Liaises with other annual giving staff to support and develop annual giving strategies.
- Supports efforts to grow and increase Dean’s Circle membership, including planning strategy and signature programs.
- Manages all aspects of the Law Firm Challenge, a peer-to-peer fundraising program that encourages consistent annual giving by alumni at over sixty law firms through a friendly competition between firms.
- Conceptualizes and executes new ways to cultivate alumni at law firms, including planning events.
- Recruits, trains, and manages graduates who volunteer as Law Firm Challenge ambassadors at their law firms, developing training materials and other resources to assist with the volunteers’ solicitation efforts.
- Creates and maintains a positive volunteer experience by offering exceptional support.
- Prepares direct mail appeals, email appeals, and other materials and correspondence for volunteers and Law Firm Challenge participants.
- Collaborates with colleagues both in the Office of External Affairs and from other departments at the Law School to design and implement a cohesive, long-term strategy for firm engagement and cultivation.
- Advises colleagues in the Law School Dean of Students and Career Services offices on the Chicago Law Partners program, which facilitates law firm sponsorship of student activities and events at the Law School.
- Supports other areas of annual giving and firm engagement, routinely meeting donor fundraising and participation targets.
- Contributes to the development of plans to solicit prospective donors and meet campaign goals. This includes speaking to new prospects persuasively about the case for annual giving support.
- Contributes to the planning and implementation of programs to identify, visit, and solicit alumni, parents, and other constituencies within an assigned geographical region for gifts to meet fundraising goal. Does this with a moderate level of guidance and direction.
- Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education: Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience: Minimum requirements include knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.
Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Experience:
- Experience in one or more of the following areas: development, public relations, marketing, volunteer management, alumni relations, events management.
- Two years of professional fundraising experience with increased responsibility and project management.
Preferred Competencies
- Successful demonstration of initiative, organizational skills, leadership skills, team orientation and commitment to customer service.
- Demonstrated ability to design, direct and manage significant program initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to work successfully with volunteers and to direct and promote complex events and projects.
- Ability to perform multiple projects simultaneously with attention to detail and deadlines.
- Ability to exercise strong interpretive judgment.
- Superior written and verbal communication skills.
- Professional demeanor and presentation.
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 Alumni Relations and Development, including Phoenix (the University’s Donor Relationship Management System), a Microsoft Windows computer environment, Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
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