Director, Capital Campaign

The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.

Worcester (MA)

On-site

USD 80,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

8 health insurance plan options

Pension or 401(a)

Life insurance up to 8x salary

Long-term disability

Dental insurance

20 vacation days per year

15 sick days per year

5 personal days per year

Paid holidays

Tuition remission for self, spouse, or

and dependent children

Job summary

Worcester State University seeks a Director, Capital Campaign to lead planning, execution, and governance of the institution's capital campaign. You will coordinate with the VPUA, senior leaders, trustees, staff, and volunteers to deliver on fundraising priorities.

This role requires strong strategic, analytical, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and communicate progress to donors and leadership.

Qualifications

Five or more years of fundraising and campaign coordination experience.
Experience with capital or comprehensive campaigns preferred.
Strong project management, analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
Experience with CRM systems, dashboards, and reporting tools.

Responsibilities

Coordinate and monitor the comprehensive capital campaign plan.
Oversee prospect management, volunteer engagement, and reporting.
Develop and monitor campaign policies, timelines, and communications.
Collaborate across university leadership and donors to ensure success.

Skills

Fundraising

Campaign coordination

Project management

Analytics

Communication

Donor relations

Education

Bachelor's degree

Advanced degree desirable

Tools

CRM systems

Fundraising analytics software

Dashboards software

Reporting tools

Job description

About Worcester State University:

WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY is a liberal arts and sciencesuniversity with a long tradition of academic excellence dating backto 1874, as well as an AffirMative Action/Equal OpportunityEmployer that seeks to reflect the diversity of its community. Our workforce is dedicated to academic quality, student-centeredprogramming, engaged citizenship, open exchanges of ideas,diversity and inclusiveness, and civility and integrity. We are looking for job applicants who share these values and commitment to our students.

Worcester State is centrally located in Massachusetts, about an hour's drive from Boston, Springfield, and Providence, Rhode Island. Our 58-acre campus is nestled in the residential northwestside of Worcester--the second largest city in New England and home to 37,000 college students at more than a dozen colleges and universities. Over 6,000 of those students attend WorcesterState--approximately 5,300 are undergraduates and 1,000 are graduate students.

Learn more about us at worcester.edu/about.

Job Description:

OFFICIAL TITLE: Director, Capital Campaign

SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Vice President for UniversityAdvancement (VPUA)

General Statement of Duties: Reporting to the Vice Presidentfor University Advancement (VPUA), the Director, Capital Campaign(DCC) coordinates the Capital Campaign planning, implementation,reporting, volunteer engagement, leadership briefings, and prospectmanagement in support of institutional fundraising priorities. Inthis role, the DCC will work closely with the Executive Directors,Alumni Relations and Development, and the Senior Director ofAdvancement Services, to act as a strategic leader and steward forthe University's comprehensive capital campaign and is responsiblefor campaign execution.

In addition, the DCC will work with University leadership,advancement staff, campaign counsel, trustees, and Volunteers.Alongside the Executive Director, Principal Gift Officer (PGO), theDCC will specifically oversee campaign coordination - timelines,communications, and reporting systems. The position serves as theprimary staff support to the VPUA on campaign matters and will betangentially involved in all aspects of University Advancementfundraising activities.

This position requires strong strategic, analytical,organizational, and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability tomanage multiple priorities in a collaborative environment.Occasional evening and weekend work is required. This is afull-time, exempt, fully benefited professional position funded bythe University's three-year Capital Campaign. Continued funding forthe position is contingent upon the availability of campaignfunding.

Core Responsibilities and Essential Duties (E):

1. Campaign Strategy and Design

(E) Collaborate with the VPUA, University leadership, campaigncounsel, trustees, and volunteers to implement and monitor thecomprehensive campaign plan.
(E )Work with PGO to develop strategic campaign road map incollaboration with VPUA.
(E) Design and execute campaign timelines, campaign milestones,campaign meetings, and campaign related activities.
(E) Monitor campaign progress and provide regular analysis,updates, and recommendations.
(E) Assist in developing campaign policies, namingopportunities, and campaign gift acceptance procedures.

?2. Prospect Management and VolunteerEngagement

(E) Oversee systems related to campaign prospectidentification, cultivation, solicitation, stewardship, andcampaign pipeline management.
(E) Partner with Advancement Services staff to maintainaccurate campaign gift tables, forecasts, and campaignreporting.
(E) Develop campaign strategies for principal and major giftprospects.
(E) Coordinate campaign committees and volunteer activities,including recruitment, training, recognition, and meetingsupport.
(E) Prepare campaign prospect briefings, reports, solicitationmaterials, and campaign communications for leadership andvolunteers.

3. Communications and Reporting

(E) Collaborate with Communications and Donor Relations staffto ensure consistent campaign messaging and updates.
(E )Partner in developing campaign materials, including thecase for support, campaign stewardship materials, donorcommunications, and presentations.
(E) Oversee campaign dashboards, analytics, and reportingsystems.
(E) Create and maintain metric-based reporting tools to measurecampaign progress.
(E) Produce campaign development, financial, stewardship, anddonor reports, including campaign donor and fund listings forannual reports.
(E) Analyze campaign fundraising and benchmarking data toidentify trends, opportunities, and operational improvements.
(E) Maintain high standards for data integrity, financialtracking, and campaign documentation.

4. Staff Collaboration and Stewardship

(E) Work collaboratively across University departments tosupport campaign priorities.
(E) Participate in the development and implementation ofdivisional policies and procedures.
(E) Represent University Advancement in campaign-relatedmeetings, events, and donor engagement activities as assigned.

Requirements:

Required Qualifications:

At least five (5) years of progressively responsibleprofessional experience in fundraising, advancement operations,campaign coordination, project management, donor relations, orhigher education advancement.
Experience supporting capital or comprehensive campaignspreferred.
Strong project management, analytical, organizational, andcommunication skills.
Experience with CRM systems, fundraising analytics, dashboards,and reporting tools.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively withsenior leadership, trustees, volunteers, donors, and Universitystakeholders.
Demonstrated professionalism, discretion, sound judgment, andcommitment to confidentiality.

Preferred Qualification:

Bachelor's degree preferred; advanced degree desirable.

Additional Information:

This is a full-time, benefited, exempt, non-unit professionalposition. The firm annual salary range for this position is$80,000- $90,000, commensurate with relevant professionalexperience and education. Funding for this position is secured forthe length of the University's three-year Capital Campaign.Continued funding for the position is contingent upon theavailability of campaign funding.

Here at Worcester State University, it is strongly recommended thatall employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 before they beginemployment.

Worcester State University offers a competitive benefits packagethat includes: