Assistant/Associate Director, Major Gifts

Summary

The Assistant/Associate Director, Major Gifts will be responsible for dollar growth, setting strategy and facilitating team efforts to secure major gift-level gifts and build a pipeline of major-gift level donors.

Reporting to the Executive Director of Major Gifts, the primary responsibilities for the Assistant/Associate Director, Major Gifts (ADMG) include developing long term philanthropic relationships with an assigned group of approximately 100+ prospects and donors, most of whom are alumni, friends, and family or parents of current Skidmore students. Responsible for solicitation of gifts with emphasis on those sized $50,000 and higher; and recruiting/managing fundraising volunteers. The ADMG will work with the Research Department to identify new prospects, oversee ask amounts for annual and non-annual gifts for their assignments and will be responsible for setting up individual stewardship plans for their donors. These responsibilities entail not only work...