Director of Institutional Advancement Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Director of Institutional Advancement to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the school’s development, admissions, communications, and marketing budgets;
- Oversee all communal, friendraising, and fundraising school events;
- Oversee and expand the school’s grant writing program;
- Serve as an outward facing liaison with the school community while embodying the school’s mission and values;
- Work with school staff and volunteers to run an annual campaign and Gala;
- Work with the Head of School and Board of Directors to implement and revise, as necessary, its ten year strategic financial plan;
- Facilitate relationship development between the Head of School and major donors;
- Oversee and grow participation in Pennsylvania’s state educational tax credit program (EITC);
- Create and guide both alumni and parent associations;
- Work closely with the Board’s Development Committee to plan meetings, set agendas, divvy out tasks, and follow up where necessary;
- Oversee branding, media relations, public relations, marketing, and crisis communications;
- Oversee the school’s communication program, including all internal and external, online, social media, and print communications;
- Ensure excellence and consistency in branding, messaging, and print and electronic collateral;
- Serve as liaison to the BUA Head of School’s Advisory Board;
- Serve on the Leadership and Administrative Team in the leadership of BUA.
Requirements:
- Ability to manage competing demands, and adapt to frequent or unexpected changes;
- Effective administrative experience and the proven ability to motivate others;
- Personable, positive, helpful personality; customer service mindset;
- Vision, creativity, flexibility, and the capacity to execute the school’s strategic plan;
- Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills;
- Ability to work independently, as part of a team, and as a team leader;
- Experience with annual giving, capital campaigns, principal and major gift solicitation, planned giving, and special events;
- Experience crafting long-range strategies and development plans;
- Entrepreneurial spirit and mindset;
- Ability and interest in utilizing tremendous resources offered by the Boston University Development and Alumni Relations office;
- Embrace a metrics-based approach to fundraising;
- Seven years of development experience, preferably with an independent school and/or in higher education;
- Ability and interest in leveraging technology to accomplish department goals;
- Strong familiarity with best practices in development;
- A firm understanding of organizing and soliciting for annual support.