"Leadership Annual Giving Officer"

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**Leadership Annual Giving Officer** **Job ID:** 296013 **Location:** Kennesaw, Georgia **Full/Part Time:** Full Time **Regular/Temporary:** Regular **About Us** Are you ready to transform lives through academic excellence, innovative research, strong community partnerships and economic opportunity? Kennesaw State University is one of the 50 largest public institutions in the country. With growing enrollment and global reach, we continue to expand our institutional influence and prominence beyond the state of Georgia. We offer more than 190 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees to empower over 50,000 students to become thought leaders, lifelong learners, and informed global citizens. Our entrepreneurial spirit, high-impact research, and Division I athletics draw students from throughout the region and from more than 100 countries across the globe. Our university's vibrant culture, career opportunities, rich benefits, and values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability make us an employer of choice. We are part of the University System of Georgia. We are searching for talented people to join Kennesaw State University in our vision. Come Take Flight at KSU! **Location** **(Primary Location for Job Responsibilities)** Our Kennesaw campus is located at 1000 Chastain Road NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144. Our Marietta campus is located at 1100 South Marietta Parkway, Marietta, GA 30060. **Job Summary** Plays a critical role in the solicitation of leadership gifts ($1,000 - $24,999.99) to annual giving and KSU Foundation funds, leadership annual giving societies, and identifying major gift prospects. Responsible for solicitation of leadership level gifts from alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends. Creates, manages, and implements leadership annual giving programs. Develops and manages strategic plans, timelines and giving program evaluations. **Responsibilities** **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:** 1. Responsible for the solicitation of annual gifts of $1,000 - $24,999.99, often in 1:1 virtual or in-person meetings. 2. Partners with major gift officers to coordinate, research and integrate Leadership Annual Giving participation asks into existing gift strategies as appropriate 3. Identifies major gift prospects and partners with major gift officers to cultivate and solicit gifts over $25,000 4. Engages with KSU constituents through multiple channels such as email, phone, schedule meetings, and events 5. Builds donor pipeline to ensure a steady pool of prospects for KSU's future philanthropic success and comprehensive campaign 6. Works with leadership to manage and continuously strengthen the annual giving department's performance of giving rates and dollars raised 7. Builds and maintains a current portfolio of prospects 8. Collaborates closely with advancement services staff to populate and manage the portfolio so that prospects are evenly distributed between identification, qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship 9. Records contact reports in the CRM database to share relevant constituent information and meet an annual interaction goal in a timely manner 10. Coordinates with key internal and external stakeholders to actively promote awareness of annual giving's role and impact 11. Supports and partners with KSU Alumni Association board members to increase alumni engagement, outreach and giving 12. Responsible for securing matches and challenges for KSU's annual Giving Day, providing strategic oversight to increase donor outreach on that day. 13. Responsible for the performance and strategic growth of donor recognition programs such as President's Parliament and Leadership Giving Society (including project management of appeals and events for these programs) 14. Represents the leadership annual giving program with alumni and colleagues internal and external to the organization 15. Conducts program research to identify best practices and stay up to date on trends in Leadership annual giving 16. Responsible for administration of budget, forecasting, policies, and procedures relating to leadership annual giving within the overall annual giving program 17. Attends alumni, stewardship, sporting events, and board meetings which will require some travel and weekend and evening work. **Required Qualifications** **Educational Requirements** Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution of higher education or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience **Other Required Qualifications** Current, valid and unrestricted driver's license **Required Experience** Two (2) years of related work experience with increased responsibility and project management **Preferred Qualifications** **Preferred Educational Qualifications** An advanced degree from an accredited institution of higher education in a related field **Preferred Experience** Experience in Raiser's Edge Experience in educational advancement **Proposed Salary** The budgeted salary range for this role is $58,000 - $72,600 annually. Offers are based on relevant experience. Comprehensive benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 13 paid holidays, vacation, generous retirement plans, tuition waiver, wellness options, and more! Visit- https://hr.kennesaw.edu/benefits/index.php **Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities** **ABILITIES** Ability to cross-train in other areas of annual giving to provide support and coverage when needed Demonstrated ability to successfully design, develop and manage significant program initiatives Demonstrated ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects collaboratively and successfully with attention to detail, requirements, and deadlines Demonstrated readiness and ability to listen and to work with others collaboratively to reach critical decisions, and the ability to communicate effectively about difficult decisions. Able to be flexible Able to handle multiple tasks or projects at one time meeting assigned deadlines **KNOWLEDGE** Strong knowledge and demonstrated ability in using a CRM database, preferably Raiser's Edge NXT, GiveCampus, and Salesforce Marketing Cloud **SKILLS** Excellent interpersonal, initiative, teamwork, problem solving, independent judgment, organization, communication (verbal and written), time management, project management and presentation skills Professional demeanor and presentation Proficient with computer applications and programs associated with the position (i.e., Microsoft Office suite) Strong attention to detail and follow up skills Strong customer service skills and phone and e-mail etiquette