Job Summary

Position will provide support to the Athletics Development Team. This position will interact on a consistent basis with the Director of Athletics and executive team members. This position will create, develop, and implement a comprehensive stewardship program for athletics that includes donor events, Thankathon, impact reports, and ensuring all stated benefits are delivered. This position will maintain a list of all athletics commemorative gift opportunities, submit recommendations through naming committees and facilitate process to get approved recognition. Additionally, this position will participate in other stewardship related programs and projects as directed. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: Institute and Office of Development executives; development officers and staff; faculty and staff representatives; volunteers, donors, alumni and friends. This position typically will advise and counsel: development officers and staff, Institute faculty and staff.

Responsibilities

• Create, develop and implement a program that results in annual impact reports to donors of all endowed and expendable funds
• Work with Development staff, faculty and staff to determine the strategy and timing of donor reports. Manage and analyze relevant information, and prepare reports to donors. Coordinate with Development staff to ensure they have information necessary to compile impact reports for funds in their respective units. Track impact report activity in Blackbaud CRM
• Steward Georgia Tech's major donors with emphasis on donors of endowed scholarship funds. Create and implement stewardship programming, impact reporting and related activities to identify and involve donor contacts for these funds
• Manage the process of adding new members to The Hill Society, the Institute's giving society for donors at the highest levels of lifetime giving, including compiling and analyzing gift data to identify new members, organizing membership review sessions, and maintaining relevant information in Blackbaud CRM
• Facilitate relationships between potential and current donors and volunteers with the Institute's administration, faculty, deans, staff and trustees
• Serve as principal liaison from the Office of Development to the Georgia Tech Foundation for stewardship data in Blackbaud CRM
• Serve as principal liaison with the Office of Student Financial Planning and Services
• Research and respond to ad-hoc inquiries
• Assist in planning and other preparations for stewardship related meetings and gatherings
• Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Overnight travel required for project delivery; flexibility in on-site daily service delivery hours (due to client shift schedules, project requirements).

Required Experience
Four to five years of job related experience

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree

Proposed Salary

Salary Range: $66,562 - $83,000

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS
This job requires working knowledge of the donor stewardship process including donor relations, communications, marketing, project management, organizing, and interpersonal skill. Use of office related computer applications is required.