Program Director, Social Sciences, Trinity College & the Graduate School, Duke Alumni Engagement and Development (AED).
WORK PERFORMED
Development Administration
Coordinate with the Divisional Dean for the Social Sciences (Division) and the Director of Development for Trinity College to develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising program in support of the students, staff and faculty within the Division of the Social Sciences.
- Coordinate with identified leadership to refine, articulate, and regularly evaluate an assigned set of priorities as established by the Dean of Trinity College.
- Identify, articulate, and regularly evaluate a comprehensive set of giving priorities for the Division.
- Serve as the primary point of contact and expert in residence for prospect engagement inquiries from University-wide fundraisers and collaborate with these colleagues on the identification, cultivation, and solicitation of prospects in concert with the Director of Development.
- Learn and adhere to Duke’s Business Intelligence systems and protocols to ensure transparency and collaboration.
- Manage priority fundraising areas within Trinity College as identified by Trinity College development leadership. The scale of this work is inclusive of 35 departments and programs and ~700 faculty and an alumni base of ~80,000.
- Serve as a liaison for assigned priority areas as determined by the Dean of Trinity College to act as a point of contact and assist with coordination between Trinity development team, faculty, staff, and students.
- Serve as the liaison to Institutes and the Strategic Initiatives Team for the Duke Global Health Institute, Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Social Sciences Research Institute.
- Serve as a liaison to the Campaigns team, particularly in reference to fundraising for and communicating university-wide strategic priorities.
- Coordinate regularly scheduled meetings with appropriate leadership within the assigned priority areas and the Director of Development for Trinity College in order to discuss, determine, monitor fundraising activities.
- Attend regularly occurring meetings with the Department Chairs in the Division.
- Meet regularly with the Dean of the Social Sciences with the Director of Development for Trinity College in order to discuss, determine, monitor or assess fundraising priorities for the Division.
Content Development
Generate development and alumni communications content as well as marketing and branding pieces for the assigned priority areas and Division in partnership with the the AED Marketing, Communications, and Stewardship team (MCS) and Offices of Communication for Trinity College.
- Collaborate with members of the Foundation Relations Office in support of funding opportunities for the Division.
Reporting and Analytics
- In partnership with Business Intelligence, drive research efforts to identify prospect pools for the assigned priority areas and the Division, evaluate and analyze prospects, and monitor fundraising progress against these pools.
- Work with fundraisers to identify, prioritize and triage prospect lists; maintaining a master watch list for the assigned priority areas and the Division and independently qualifying and adding prospects as they emerge.
- Work to create and designate fund codes and process gifts as needed for the assigned priority areas and the Division.
Stewardship
- In collaboration with the faculty, staff and students of the assigned priority areas and the Division, develop content in support of philanthropic proposals, donor relations, stewardship letters, impact reports, giving stories, financial reporting, etc.
- Assist in the generation of weekly gift acknowledgement letters specific to the assigned priority areas and the Division.
- Provide internal/external current use impact reporting for the assigned priority areas and the Division.
- Draft individual custom stewardship for leadership gifts and board members – in coordination with AED Stewardship.
Communications
- Serve as the expert in residence for all assigned priority areas and the Division related prospect inquiries and assist in the development of fundraising & communications materials.
- Assist fundraisers in writing gift proposals in support of the departments, programs and faculty within the assigned priority areas and the Division.
- Assist in the creation of proposals, endowment agreements, and gift negotiation/handling as needed.
Other Responsibilities
- Perform other related duties incidental to the work described.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Knowledge of fundraising strongly preferred
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and strategically with diverse constituencies to achieve shared success
- Capacity to influence and/or guide others toward achieving a goal or solving a problem
- Strong sense of organizational awareness and ability to use this to achieve objectives
- High level of comfort with ambiguity and an ability to respond to change and commit to decisions under pressure
- Ambition, creativity, and resourcefulness
- Fundraising experience preferred
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Strong customer service orientation
- Team player
- Attention to detail and follow-through
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- A commitment to continuous learning
- Project and data management skills
- Proficiency in MS Office Suite programs
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