"Special Gifts Officer"

Position Details

Position Information

Posting date: 09/04/2025

Closing date: Open Until Filled - Yes

Position Number: 1128408

Position Title: Special Gifts Officer

Hiring Range Minimum: $101,600

Hiring Range Maximum: $127,000

Union Type: Not a Union Position

SEIU Level: Not an SEIU Position

FLSA Status: Exempt

Employment Category: Regular Full Time

Scheduled Months per Year: 12

Scheduled Hours per Week: 40

Schedule: This position may be performed from a remote location within close travel proximity to the assigned regional area.

Location of Position: Hanover, NH or remote location

Remote Work Eligibility?: Hybrid

Is this a term position?: No

Is this a grant funded position?: No

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 Gift 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.

Preferred Qualifications

(No specific preferred qualifications listed)

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

Demonstrates professionalism and collegiality through actions, interactions, and communications with others appropriate to an environment that is welcoming to all.

Performs other duties as assigned

Documents Needed to Apply

Required Documents: Cover Letter, Resume

Optional Documents: Additional Document #1

Department Contact for Recruitment Inquiries

Lorin Parker, 603.646.2904

Equal Opportunity Employer: Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity employer under federal law. We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected status. Applications are welcome from all.

Background Check: Employment in this position is contingent upon consent to and successful completion of a pre-employment background check...

Is driving a vehicle an essential function of this job?: Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants: Dartmouth College has a Tobacco-Free Policy...

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