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Assistant Director of Young Alumni Philanthropy for The Penn Fund Jobs in Lower Merion, USA at The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.
Assistant Director of Young Alumni Philanthropy for The Penn Fund University Overview
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Posted Job Title
Assistant Director of Young Alumni Philanthropy for The Penn Fund
Job Profile Title
Annual Giving Officer A
Job Description Summary
Organizational Mission and Values:
Established in 1927, The Penn Fund supports the University’s mission through upholding the core values set forth by Development and Alumni Relations and raising both dollars and donors to enhance undergraduate life and learning for all students. We are proud to serve as one of the primary annual giving vehicles within our generous Quaker community. Gifts that count toward The Penn Fund benefit the University’s highest priorities across the academic, extracurricular, and residential experiences.
Future members of our team will hold the utmost integrity and accountability for their work; lead with collegiality to form bonds with colleagues united in common purpose; actively seek out collaboration with the best intention to work together; recognize and embrace diversity in background and of thought to create an inclusive environment; utilize transparency and open communication as regular tools to benefit both internal and external culture;
and honor the dignity and personal rights of others through mutual respect and trust.
Position Overview:
Reporting to the Director of Next Generation Philanthropy & Volunteer Strategy, the Assistant Director of Young Alumni Philanthropy is a frontline fundraiser essential to The Penn Fund’s success. This position works closely with annual giving officers and prospect managers across the University to ensure a coordinated approach in developing the next generation of Penn undergraduate alumni philanthropists. The role assists in developing strategy for increasing participatory and leadership giving among young alumni within ten years out from graduation.
The primary goal for this position is to successfully solicit meaningful gifts from young alumni to bolster our team’s overall goals pertaining to dollars and donors. In addition, this role manages the 5th and 10th Reunion Gift Committees.
Specific Responsibilities:
- Manage a pipeline of prospects to be solicited at Benjamin Franklin Society leadership giving levels ($250, $500, $1000+)-with additional focus on raising endowed scholarships from young alumni who may contribute $75,000 over five years.
- Conduct solicitations through personal visits, phone calls, emails, and texts of non-reunion young alumni prospects in addition to those celebrating milestone reunions (5th and 10th).
- Steward appropriately and effectively all top young alumni donors.
- Track and analyze results of the team’s young alumni philanthropic leadership activities.
- In collaboration with the Director of Next Generation Philanthropy & Volunteer Strategy, develop creative strategies to enhance the culture of philanthropy within and toward the University-including retention, activation, and acquisition of(new) leadership donors.
- Partner as appropriate with volunteers and divisional colleagues on various prospect strategies.
Volunteer Management
- Coordinate the recruitment, training, management, and evaluation of young alumni volunteers-including, but not limited to, event host committees, reunion committees, and/or specific campaign committees-especially related to the 5th and/or 10th milestone celebrations.
- Recruit new young alumni volunteers through visits, emails and/or event outreach and engagement.
- Motivate young alumni volunteers to encourage peer attendance at all Penn Fund, and general regional events.
Event Management
- Organize and execute annual leadership…
Title: Assistant Director of Young Alumni Philanthropy for The Penn Fund
Company: The Chronicle Of Higher Education, Inc.
Location: Lower Merion, USA
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