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Leadership Gifts Officer (Multiple Positions, Remote Possibility)

Employer
Colgate University
Location
Hamilton, New York, United States
Salary
Competitive Salary
Date posted
Jul 25, 2024

Job Details


Professional Experience/ Qualifications
  • A minimum of three years of experience in higher education fundraising, sales, non-profits, or related fields with a preference for experience in educational fundraising.
  • The professionalism, insight and sound judgment necessary for interacting with alumni, trustees, administrative and academic leadership, faculty, and staff.
  • An understanding of the important role of diversity, inclusion, and equity to Advancement and Colgate University.
  • Ability to operate independently, exercise sound judgment, and maintain confidentiality.
  • Ability to collaborate closely with colleagues in advancement and across departments.
  • Proficiency in CRMs and/or databases is required. Experience with Blackbaud products appreciated.
  • Strategic, organized, enthusiastic, team player, and willingness to travel is a must.
  • Participating in the life of the University, including staffing Colgate’s annual Reunion weekend, is a requirement of the position.
Preferred Qualifications

Preference for experience in higher education fundraising
Preference for frontline fundraising experience, including demonstrated ability to close gifts

Education

Bachelor’s Required.

Department Statement

Founded in 1819, Colgate is a small, highly selective residential liberal arts college for students of talent who are preparing for lives of leadership and productive citizenship. Colgate University enjoys a strong tradition of philanthropy and engagement and is currently engaged in a historic comprehensive campaign with a goal of $1B. To date, the Campaign for the Third Century has raised over $613M towards this goal.
Colgate is seeking a dynamic leadership gifts officer to play a key role in driving significant support for the Colgate Fund ($10M in FY24), the University’s unrestricted fund.

Accountabilities

This is a frontline fundraising position that requires extensive travel to cultivate and solicit prospects capable of giving annual and multi-year gifts up to $100,000. Accountable for effectively developing and maintaining relationships with key leadership gift (and prospective leadership gift) constituents as assigned. Ensures effective qualification, identification, cultivation, and stewardship of constituents, including face to face, quality visits with assigned prospects. Responsible for increasing levels of annual and long-term engagement and giving within assigned constituents. Accountable for positively representing all aspects of the University at all times.

Responsible for demonstrating respect for people and their differences as well as the benefits of a diverse workforce, and the value of open and collegial dialogue.

This position requires the ability to travel extensively to engage with and solicit prospects.

Job Open Date
11/06/2024

Job Close Date

Open Until Filled
Yes

Special Instructions Summary

EEO Statement

The University recognizes that equal employment opportunity can only be achieved through demonstrated leadership. It is the Policy of the University to recruit, employ, retain, promote, and train employees on the basis of merit, ability, and valid job qualifications without regard to any characteristics protected by applicable local, state or federal laws or Executive Orders.
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Company

 Colgate University

Colgate is a distinctive, leading American university known for its intellectual rigor, world-class professors, campus of stunning beauty, and alumni famously loyal to their alma mater.

Time and time again, the world has shown an urgent need for citizens with the ability to create, explore, examine, and connect human knowledge. Colgate University has been answering that call through centuries of academic rigor in the liberal arts tradition.

Colgate attracts world-renowned faculty in a breadth of subject matters as well as innovative leaders in higher-ed administration, all dedicated to building on an educational tradition that has prepared generations of Colgate graduates for success. 

Colgate is deeply invested in employees’ success, and we all work together to ensure that students receive the premier education that is at the University’s core.

The Colgate campus, ranked as one of the most beautiful in the nation, is a place where students develop lifelong bonds with each other, faculty, and staff.

Colgate is located in the village of Hamilton, a community of about 3,800 residents who enjoy downtown’s art galleries and restaurants and who take pride in the many historic homes and public buildings.

Colgate University

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