Senior Associate Director of Development for the SNF Agora Institute
- Employer
- Johns Hopkins University
- Location
- Maryland, United States
- Salary
- Salary Not Specified
- Date posted
- Sep 3, 2021
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Reports to: Associate Dean, External Affairs, Krieger School
Position
Summary
The Stavros Niarchos
Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University is
deeply committed to strengthening global democracy through powerful
civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue, through its
academic home within the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences.
Universities, now more than ever, play an indispensable role in
developing the civic capacities of the next generation of scholars
and leaders, and promoting modes of discourse and engagement across
difference that make pluralistic democracy possible. The scholars
at the SNF Agora Institute are leading this charge, and are seeking
a seasoned development leader to help advance the institute’s
mission.
Primary
Responsibilities
The Senior Associate Director of Development, SNF Agora Institute
will work in a highly collaborative manner with academic,
administrative and Development leaders across the Krieger School
and within the Johns Hopkins University community to grow
philanthropic resources dedicated to the faculty, programming and
operations of the SNF Agora
Institute.
This individual will be
responsible for developing a cohesive fundraising program that
leverages internal and external partnerships and drives innovative
strategies for donor identification, cultivation, solicitation and
stewardship to achieve fundraising and programmatic
goals.
The Senior Associate
Director of Development will work with leaders across campus to
organize, drive, sustain and promote philanthropy in support of the
SNF Agora Institute’s mission. This individual will be part of the
Krieger Development and Alumni relations team, working closely with
Krieger gift officers and the constituent engagement team. The
Senior Associate Director of Development will also be an active
partner with central development colleagues including the Senior
Director of Foundation Relations,the
Director of Innovation Initiatives and Corporate Relations, the
Director of International Fundraising and other
partnersas
appropriate.
Under the direction of the
Associate Dean,
andin close
partnership with the SNF Agora Institute Inaugural Director Hahrie
Han and Chris Celenza, the Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and
Sciences,
theSenior Associate Director of
Development
will serve
as a major gifts officer responsible for raising funds to support
the planned SNF Agora Institute building, scheduled to break ground
in Summer 2021 and which has been designed by the world-renowned
architect Renzo Piano. Additionally,
theSenior Associate Director of
Development
will raise
funds in support of faculty recruitments, faculty research and
programming for both the university and the community,
at-large.
This individual will meet
regularly with senior Development leadership, including with the
Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, the Senior
Associate Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations, and
the Associate Vice President for Principal Gifts/Chief of Staff to
the Vice President to ensure coordinated and sustained forward
momentum in
fundraising.
SNF Agora Institute Background
The SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University was founded in 2017 with a $150 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. We are a multi-disciplinary academic and public forum dedicated to strengthening global democracy by improving and expanding civic engagement and inclusive dialogue, and by supporting inquiry that leads to real-world change. By building integrated partnerships with scholars, practitioners, students, and the public, we use research to identify and sharpen strategic choices that members of the public and civic and political stakeholders around the world can make to realize the promise of democracy.
The institute draws its name and inspiration from the ancient Athenian agora. Originally designed as a marketplace, the agora grew to become the heart of democratic governance in Athens. It provided a structured forum for debate, disagreement, and deliberation, and a place where Athenians learned both the rights and responsibilities of democracy, and where they developed capacities for participation in public life.
Building on the unique strengths of Johns Hopkins—its world-class faculty, its interdisciplinary focus, and its dedication to bold experimentation—we seek to reinvigorate the ethos of the ancient agora for the 21st century. Our scholars study the behavioral, organizational, and institutional foundations of democracy; develop and test interventions to reverse trends toward decline; and share lessons learned to promote civic engagement and inclusive dialogue around the critical issues of our time. Ultimately, we seek to recreate agora-like spaces that are critical to deliberative democracy.
Specific Duties & Responsibilities
Fundraising Strategy and Execution:
-
Develop a fundraising vision
and strategy, in partnership with the SNF Agora director and deputy
director, that would meet and exceed a $6M target for dollars
raised by the end of Fiscal Year 2024, and raising sustaining
operational funds in future years. This would include seeking
individual gifts and additional philanthropic support
for:
Endowed
professorships
Faculty labs (funding for
lab elements and for associated staffing, like a lab
director)
Visiting fellows (funding
for fellows and for the fellowship program
itself)
Student fellows
(undergraduate and graduate)
Capital fundraising to meet
identified targets for the SNF Agora Institute’s new
building
-
Work with the SNF Agora
Institute Director of Communications on short- and long-term
marketing materials for the institute, including managing the
creation of philanthropic marketing
materials;
Manage development events,
including professorship dedications and events tied to the new SNF
Agora Institute building, and Board of Overseers meetings (2/year,
including 1 in Athens) and additional gatherings (average of
2/year).
Coordinate with Krieger
School and central development team on events that involve
institutional donors and other key
constituents.
- Develop and implement a constituent engagement strategy, to include a strategic plan for engagement of alumni with relationships to the SNF Agora Institute, including but not limited to those with alumni relationships with the Krieger School. The strategy may also be inclusive of developing a plan for generating relationships with non-affiliates.
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Minimum of five years progressive responsibility and experience as a professional development officer and/or prior professional experience in a related field such as sales, marketing or business development.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of the principles and practices of individual, corporate and foundation fundraising in a university setting with a strong understanding of the goals, functions and services of a research university or institution of equivalent complexity.
- Proven skills in developing sophisticated strategies in planning, implementing and administering complex major gift solicitations or other solicitations of a similar nature, level and complexity.
- Deep interest in and ability to synthesize research and funding priorities; strong ability to link funding needs to donor interest and ability to build strategic cases and alliances for fundraising.
- Strong self-starter who works well independently to drive strategies for donor identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship with a strong documented record of gifts solicited and closed in the major gifts range and/or solicitations of a similar nature, level and complexity.
- Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively with faculty, lecturers, content area experts, development colleagues and donors to raise funds in support of teaching and research excellence in support of political discourse
- Previous experience with volunteers and/or volunteer boards is preferable.
- Ability to establish priorities, manage multiple tasks and multi-phase projects simultaneously from inception to completion and complete work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision.
- Ability to communicate persuasively, both orally and in writing, to multiple audiences equal ability to listen perceptively and convey sensitivity and awareness.
- Excellent written and communication skills, with the ability to produce business correspondence, solicitation materials, appropriate letters of acknowledgement, proposals to individuals, corporations and foundations, and reports.
- Experience conceptualizing, planning and implementing special events.
- Impeccable integrity and discretion in dealing with donors, alumni, students, administrators and colleagues as well as with confidential information.
- Trustworthy and able to establish rapport with colleagues and leaders across the organization.
- Proficiency of Microsoft Suite of applications is required as is familiarity with other applications, programs and databases as needed with a willingness to learn new technologies.
- Ability to travel and work some weekends and/or evenings as needed.
- This position is located in Baltimore and the expectation is that the successful candidate be able to work on campus as well as remotely each week.
Classified Title:Sr. Development
Officer
Working Title: Senior Associate Director of Development
for the SNF Agora Institute
Role/Level/Range: ATP/04/PE
Starting Salary Range:Commensurate with
experience
Employee group: Full Time
Schedule: M-F, 8:30am-5:00pm
Exempt Status: Exempt
Location: 01-MD:Homewood Campus
Department name: 10001349-Development
Personnel area: School of Arts & Sciences
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