Director of Leadership Annual Giving and Pipeline Development
Added
April 23, 2025
Description
The Director of Leadership Annual Giving and pipeline reports to the Senior of Annual Giving and oversees all aspects of University Advancement’s leadership annual giving efforts and works closely with campus areas to help promote the best practices in this space. The Director of Leadership Annual Giving is responsible for promoting and instilling best practices to maintain and grow the community of donors and gifts to the U. This is accomplished by fulfilling the following responsibilities.
At the University of Utah, we ask a lot of our employees, which is why we give so much in return. In addition to your competitive salary, medical/dental/vision/life plan and up to 14.2% contribution to your retirement plan, we have the following perks, including:
- Flexibility: One-two days a week (depending on our schedule) feel free to skip the commute and hit your deadlines from home.
- Office culture: we have a highly collaborative office. Dress code is business/casual. You’ll have a cohort of peer alumni relations professionals with whom you can strategize and collaborate.
- Wellness in action: take advantage of our many health and wellness programs on-campus and virtually. This includes mental health and resiliency support, discount on outdoor recreation rentals and Eccles Student Life Center, nutrition services, and more.
· Build and manage the leadership annual giving officers and provide them with the needed tools, skills, and guidance to succeed. Increase this team from 1 to 4 full-time officers.
· Supervise the Manager of the Student Philanthropy and Engagement Center. Oversee the development of leads, upgrades, and donor pipeline development from the center.
· Cultivate student fundraisers and Manager into potential LAG and/or DXO programs.
· Collaborate with other areas within University Advancement and campus partners to achieve goals and bring in more donors (Specifically, the teams of Gift Processing, Prospect Management, Legacy Giving, and Stewardship teams).
· Be a pipeline building expert and service provider for university campus areas. On behalf of campus areas, execute leadership annual giving strategies that follow best practice. Campus areas include 18 colleges, U Alumni, University of Utah Health, five on-campus arts organizations, and other non-academic campus areas. With a priority given to constituent units directly supported by University Advancement.
· Develop and execute university-wide solicitation and upgrade strategies for the donor cycles of discovery, leadership annual gifts, upgrades, and hand-offs to major or principal gifts.
· Implement a robust plan for leadership annual giving level donors, stewardship and leads with both the Annual Giving Team and Central Donor Relations Team.
· Work one on one with a portfolio of individual donors (up to 75) to cultivate and solicit upper-level annual gifts and select major gifts.
· Help drive competitions such as March Forward, Giving Day, end of calendar year, and other gift acquisition and engagement programs that empower frontline fundraisers.
· Analyze and report on results to guide future annual giving strategy and inform university leadership of annual progress and long-term trends.
Specific details
Organization
University of Utah
Contact Person
Rachel Robertson
Phone
8015879889
Closing Date
May-30-2025
Apply or More Info Link
https://utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/181321
Salary Range
$85k - 100k