Saint Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, NYC

• Compile and submit regular reports to the Director of Annual Giving and staff detailing accurate daily, weekly, monthly fundraising statistics. Build and maintain reporting system using Benefactor database. Analyze and generate detailed statistical reports on Annual Fund.
• Work with the Director of Annual Giving and staff on data processes, data integrity, and reporting. Develop and implement programs specific to cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of segmented constituencies.
• Maintain integrity, accuracy and confidentiality of information in the Benefactor database. Analyze and report on weekly, monthly and year-to-date performance of the annual giving program and share with the Director of Annual Giving and staff.
• Coordinate Annual Fund direct mail solicitations to alumni and friends.
• Facilitate the development collateral materials in support of Annual Fund.
• Help identify Annual Giving Advisory Committee(s).
• Assist in following-up and acknowledging donor gifts.
• Maintain an active portfolio of donor prospects for Director of Annual Giving.
• Ensure timely and accurate acknowledgement of all gifts, and proper, personalized stewardship to key constituents, including Board members, multi-year donors and high-level donors.
• Introduce creative new strategies to renew and increase former donors, acquire new donors, expand monthly giving club and build on-line giving.
• Identify donors with potential for higher level major gift and/or planned giving support and work with the Director of Annual Giving and staff to implement strategies to personally contact, build closer relationship with, solicit and steward those individuals.
• Manage fundraising activities for a range of alumni classes. Implementing annual fund strategies for classes to reach dollar and participation goals, supporting an extraordinarily active volunteer class agent structure, and advancing leadership gifts efforts, particularly for reunion classes.
• Assist in the recruitment, training, management, solicitation and communication with Annual Fund volunteers and Class agents.
• Support overall development priorities as appropriate and as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum of three years of fundraising experience, preferably in a non-profit environment
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and motivational skills
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects
• Initiative and imagination for innovation
• Ability to interact with a broad range of constituents including alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and friends of the College
• Strong analytical and technical aptitude with an attention to detail
• Proficiency in use of database and word processing systems
• Ability to work both independently and with a team
• Exceptional professional writing, editing and analytical skills
• Ability to travel as needed in the New York region and out of state to visit with prospects, donors, and stewardship actions
• Ability to work a flexible schedule to include some evening/weekend work as needed.

St. Francis College is a private, independent, co-educational college that offers a superior liberal arts education at an affordable price.  In June 1885, St. Francis College conferred its first Bachelor of Arts degree, and seven years later the first Bachelor of Science degree was granted.  A new five-year combined Bachelor’s and Master’s degree is now offered in Accounting.

Today the College has more than 15,000 alumni and 2,300 students.  Although most students are from Brooklyn and the other boroughs of New York City, approximately 10 percent of the student body is international.  Many of the students at St. Francis College are the first in their families to attend college.

The Development Office and Alumni Relations Department work very closely together in creating an approach to alumni outreach and fundraising that enables St. Francis College to keep in touch with every constituent in the College community.  Last year, maintaining the momentum generated by the recently concluded Campaign for Big Dreams, giving to the Annual Fund (the Fund for St. Francis College) was the highest in the history of the College, with a growth of 33 percent over the previous year.

The Director of Planned Giving will report to Sharon Kerrigan, Vice President of Development and Alumni Affairs. (S)he will lead a comprehensive planned giving program for the college including bequests, life insurance, Charitable Gift Annuities, Charitable Lead Trusts, Charitable Remainder Trusts, and other planned giving vehicles.  The Director is also responsible for identifying, cultivating, soliciting and providing stewardship to current and prospective planned giving donors at all levels.  In addition, the Director will

• collaborate with the Vice President for Development and Alumni Affairs and with the major gift team in solicitations involving a planned giving component.
• develop annual plans and multi-year strategic objectives for planned gift fundraising for the College.
• maintain a prospect portfolio drawn from alumni and friends of St. Francis College and create the appropriate strategies.
• meet with and inform prospects about the college’s planned giving program.
• oversee the management aspects, including stewardship of the St. Clare Society, the College’s planned giving legacy society.
• oversee the marketing and communication of the benefits of a planned giving program.
• supervise documentation of planned gifts and record keeping and manage the solicitation and documentation for non-cash gifts.

The successful candidate will be   

• an experienced planned giving professional with a clear understanding of tax and finance laws and their relationship to charitable gifts.
• a high achiever who would value the opportunity to enhance a  new planned giving program and make it their own.
• a person comfortable in developing an active volunteer leadership planned giving program and in building volunteer support.
• a sophisticated fundraiser with exceptionally astute listening skills and a particular strength in engaging an older population.
• a team-oriented individual experienced in the cultivation and solicitation process, with previous campaign background.
• a strategic thinker, with a genuine interest in higher education and related fields.
• a solid, outgoing, and warm fundraiser able to communicate with genuine passion the mission of St. Francis  College both verbally and in writing.
• a detail-oriented self-starter with good organization and planning skills.                    

• Work closely with the Director of the Faculty Technology Center and Faculty members to identify, plan and deploy instructional technology initiatives. Works with the Training Associate to identify the learning needs Faculty based on these initiatives.
• Assess Instructional Technology needs and identifies resources and develops strategies and plans to meet current and projected needs in accordance with the IT Strategic Plan.
• Recommend budgetary, life cycle planning and management procedures and best practices for Instructional Computing.
• Train and support faculty and administrator use of the Scantron survey/faculty evaluation and testing/test scoring systems.
• Make use of the data provided by the Director of Support Services regarding the deployment of equipment (e.g. PC’s, laptops, printers, etc.), warranties, serial numbers, department information and software library.
• Identify, analyze, evaluate, and showcase new technologies for potential applications in instruction and assessment.
• Implement and maintain new and current releases of Instructional Software and Instructional Technology initiatives.
• Perform initial review of Faculty hardware/software/technology budget requests and advises CIO of potential impact adoption of requests would have on current IT operations.
• Interface with help desk staff regarding Faculty issues working closely with the Director of Support Services.
• Assist Director of Support Services in the maintenance of student computer labs as needed.
• Investigate and solve faculty-specific technology problems related to instructional technology.
• Create and maintain written documentation and procedures for instructional Technology including a web presence.
• Perform other duties as required by the Director of IT Operations or CIO.

 Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum of 3 years experience with instructional technology and Windows software in a Microsoft networking environment.
• Previous experience supporting faculty from a variety of academic disciplines and students desirable. Knowledge of current and emerging instructional technologies and design, and an in-depth understanding of pedagogical issues related to online teaching and learning. More specifically, a demonstrated computer competency especially with course management/online learning platforms (Blackboard, ANGEL, E-Portfolio, Tegrity, Turnitin, Classroom Response Systems), multi-media authoring programs, academic software, Web 2.0 technologies, HTML, and web development tools, as well as the ability to work across Windows and Macintosh platforms.
• Familiarity with Linux and MAC OS X operating systems desirable

• Provides biographical, philanthropic, professional and financial information on donors and prospects through written profiles, event briefings and qualified prospect lists.
• Works closely with various departments, including development, alumni affairs, finance and the president’s office.
• Tracks prospects and donors by monitoring daily news and online alerts.
• Manages donor information.
• Conducts prospect identification through institutional information, donor participation, or other self-identified interests.
• Prepares reports on corporations, private and public foundations and individual donors to support development efforts.
• Identifies and interpret assets to provide capacity estimates on prospects.
• Designs and implement data-mining initiatives to identify potential major gift prospects.
• Conducts searches for new corporate and foundation funding.
• Updates and maintains central donor prospect files (database and hard copy).
• Assists with other development activities (e.g., campaign events, trend analysis, etc.) as required.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Minimum of two years of relevant experience.
• Good assessment skills, as well as a strong working knowledge of reference and resource materials, proprietary databases, online and print sources.
• Demonstrated proficiency in usage of electronic research tools and techniques, including use of push technology for news alerts; effective internet search methodologies.
• Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office.
• Experience with BoardEx, Hoovers, wealth screening services, and knowledge of LexisNexis and the Foundation Center.
• Strong writing and analytical skills, strong verbal communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to synthesize and present complex information effectively.
• Ability to meet tight deadlines while still producing detailed work.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
• Commitment to confidentiality, discretion, ethical standards, and professionalism.
• Prior experience working in a development office preferred.

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