Coordinator for Development - Planned & Leadership Giving

Job Description

Amherst College invites applications for the Coordinator for Development - Planned and Leadership Giving position. The Coordinator for Development - Planned and Leadership Giving is a full-time, year-round position. The expected salary range for this job opportunity is: $26 - $30 per hour.

The Coordinator for Development - Planned and Leadership Giving is a key member of the Development team, providing administrative, logistical, and data support to the Planned Giving and Leadership Giving teams and, by extension, to a diverse audience of alumni, parents, friends, faculty, and campus partners.

Summary of Responsibilities

Program Administration: Gift Planning

• Respond to inquiries about life income and other planned gifts, providing clear, timely, accurate information to alumni, parents, friends, and advisors.
• Coordinate with Finance and the Office of General Counsel to establish life income arrangements.
• Produce personalized life income gift illustrations using calculation software.
• Manage documentation and internal processing for new life income gifts, additions, and terminations.
• Handle routine donor service for life income arrangements.
• Maintain complete and current records for life income gifts, bequest intentions, and realized bequests.
• Serve as administrative liaison to the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Emily Dickinson Museum on life income and related gift planning matters.
• Administer the legacy giving society (Johnson Chapel Associates).

Fundraising Support: Coordination, Data, and Logistics

• Maintain accurate prospect, activity, opportunity, and gift records in the College's CRM (Slate).
• Ensure gifts are properly coded and documented.
• Produce queries and basic reports to support portfolio management.
• Manage invitation/mailing lists for planned and leadership giving programs and events.
• Draft and send YAMMs and other email communications.
• Support planned giving communications by maintaining accurate newsletter and outreach lists.
• Prepare meeting materials and brief background research for donor/prospect meetings.
• Draft and edit donor correspondence and follow-up communications.
• Coordinate logistics for programs/events.
• Provide administrative support to Planned Giving and Leadership Giving.

Qualifications

Required

• Associate degree and a minimum of 3 years of professional experience in an administrative, project management, development, or related role.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
• Comfort working with data and technology, including experience with databases or CRMs.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• High level of discretion and professionalism when working with confidential information.
• Demonstrated commitment to and experience with advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in a professional setting.
• Ability to work occasional evenings and weekends in support of events.
• Successful completion of required reference and background checks.
• An acceptable criminal offender records information (CORI) check.