Donor Growth & Annual Giving Director

University of Mississippi; Mississippi; On-site; USD 101,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Mississippi, a premier public research university, seeks a leader to direct the Annual Giving program within University Development. The role focuses on crafting strategy, setting goals, and supervising staff to advance donor engagement and funding of key university initiatives.

Responsibilities include managing leadership annual giving, creating data-driven messaging, and overseeing campaigns across traditional and digital channels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years relevant experience, with 5 years supervisory experience required.

Responsibilities

• Directs annual giving strategy, goals, and activities, cultivates donor relationships, develops and oversees execution of development events, and supervises unit staff in support of achieving institutional development goals.
• Directs strategy for leadership annual giving including writing pool and portfolio criteria & policy, setting goals, managing Annual Gift Officers, and reviewing performance.
• Provides thought leadership to academic units creating data criteria, messaging and marketing timelines with the goal of acquiring new donors, reacquiring lapsed donors, and upgrading current annual donors and developing gift pipeline.
• Directs strategy for direct response fundraising campaigns using both traditional and digital channels.
• Serves as a liaison to academic leadership.
• Secures external bids for all vendor relationships, managing operations related to the contract negotiations, data analysis, strategic planning, and budgetary operations.
• Directs all budgetary and fundraising activity for key funds and committees.
• Reports on fundraising results, provides regular projections to leadership, ensures compliance with solicitation and communication regulations, and updates fundraising database.

Skills

Donor relationships

Leadership

Fundraising strategy

Event planning

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

University of Mississippi, a premier public research university, seeks a leader to direct the Annual Giving program within University Development. The role focuses on crafting strategy, setting goals, and supervising staff to advance donor engagement and funding of key university initiatives.

Responsibilities include managing leadership annual giving, creating data-driven messaging, and overseeing campaigns across traditional and digital channels.