Senior Director of Development, Berkeley Engineering Fund (0462U) - College of Engineering

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Departmental Overview

Reporting to the Assistant Dean of Development, this Senior Director of Development position is a frontline fundraising role focused on discretionary gifts to the College of Engineering including complex major, blended, and planned gifts. The Senior Director of the Berkeley Engineering Fund is responsible for qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donors to the Berkeley Engineering Fund and other college funding priorities; for leading and overseeing the programmatic activities of the team (such as mini-campaigns, coordination with UDAR's Direct Response Marketing), and supervision of the Associate Director of Development, Berkeley Engineering Fund.

Through timely communications, campaigns and stewardship events, the Berkeley Engineering Fund team members increase awareness and membership of the Dean's Society, the College's leadership annual giving group.

Leadership Annual Gifts, Major Gifts and the Dean's Society

• Manage a portfolio of 120-225 major gift or leadership annual fund prospects, with the capacity to give $100k- $1M and beyond.
• Make 4-6 substantive contacts per month and customized correspondence to cultivate, solicit and steward annual, major and planned gift donors and prospects.
• Ensures that predetermined fundraising goals for the Annual Fund are met at least $4M annually.

Supervision and Leadership

• Serves as lead staff member for the Berkeley Engineering Fund team.
• Supervises and coaches the Associate Development Director.

Annual Fund Mini-Campaigns

• Oversees the planning and implementation of fundraising projects and programs including email campaigns, digital giving days, matching challenges.