"Special Gifts Officer"

Position Information

Posting date: 09/04/2025

Closing date: Open Until Filled

Position Number: 1128408

Position Title: Special Gifts Officer

Hiring Range Minimum: $101,600

Hiring Range Maximum: $127,000

Union Type: Not a Union Position

FLSA Status: Exempt

Employment Category: Regular Full Time

Scheduled Months per Year: 12

Scheduled Hours per Week: 40

Location of Position: Hanover, NH or remote location

Remote Work Eligibility: Hybrid

Position Purpose

In partnership with the Tuck Advancement Team, and as informed by Tuck’s strategic initiatives, the special gifts officer solicits and secures annual, current use, and facilities gifts ranging from $25,000 to $250,000+ from a portfolio of prospects.

Description

The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth seeks a talented and motivated advancement professional to join its team as a Special Gifts Officer to play a pivotal part in strengthening donor engagement and philanthropy to support Tuck’s mission and strategic priorities. Candidates may be based in Hanover, NH, or in an assigned geographical region in the Western or Southeast US States, with flexibility for hybrid/remote arrangements depending on location.

Required Qualifications - Education and Yrs Exp

Bachelors or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Qualifications - Skills, Knowledge and Abilities

1. Experience and skill successfully raising gifts for higher education institutions, or highly transferable sales and customer/client relationship management experience in organizations with similar methods and standards for engaging with new business prospects. Experience and skill using fundraising management systems and technology (e.g., Ellucian Advance) to enter and report donor contact activities.

2. Knowledge of higher education economics, philanthropy, and administration gained through a business or liberal arts education, continuing education, and/or relevant work experience.

3. Able to travel extensively to meet with donors and attend fundraising events. Able to anticipate, deliver on, and exceed the expectations of donors and colleagues.

4. Able to anticipate, deliver on, and exceed the expectations of donors and colleagues.

5. Able to introduce and drive innovation in ways small and large.

6. Able to collaborate effectively with colleagues across Advancement, Tuck, and Dartmouth to achieve shared goals and objectives.

7. Able to proactively identify and pursue relevant learning and professional development opportunities and apply new knowledge, insights, and skills to enhance results.

Key Accountabilities

1. Gift Solicitation and Commitments: Solicits five and six-figure annual fund and restricted current-use gifts from a portfolio of alumni prospects. Secures written commitments for these asks and ensures prompt payments on pledges. (70%)

2. Donor Prospect Identification and Cultivation: Applies prospect research, fundraising expertise, creativity, and intuition in identifying and cultivating potential donors, particularly those who have not given previously or who have not given at their full capacity, as well as other prospects selected in partnership with the Advancement leadership team and fundraising colleagues. Refers prospects to others in annual giving and leadership giving teams when appropriate. (15%)

3. Gift Proposals: Partners with the Campaign Operations Team to develop gift proposals associated with the specific strategic initiatives of interest to prospective donors. (5%)

4. Contact Activity Reporting: Enters donor contact activities into advancement systems and shares/collaborates with relevant partners. (5%)

5. Team Development: Contributes ideas, input, and support to Tuck Advancement initiatives, decisions, communications, and other activities with annual giving and leadership giving implications. Seeks out, applies, and shares knowledge of higher education fundraising trends and innovations. (5%)