Assistant Director of Development, Harvard College Fund, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Job Summary

Required Qualifications

• •Bachelor's degree
• •Minimum 4 years of experience in university fundraising and administration or related transferable experience
• •Travel expectations required: approximately 15-20 percent of working days on the road
• •Some event and weekend work required
• •Experience with Microsoft Windows and databases
• •Knowledge of academic communities
• •Demonstrated success in annual or capital giving
• •Applicable ability, writing fundraising materials
• •Devising sophisticated cultivation and solicitation strategies
• •Events management
• •Proven ability to motivate, engage and work with alumni, university officials, faculty, and staff or similar constituencies
• •Definite abilities to evaluate problems accurately
• •Good, sound and confidential judgment
• •Motivated to learn
• •Flexible to change
• •Ability to innovate
• •Think strategically and conceptually
• •Manage multiple projects
• •Handle difficult situations with tact and a sense of humor
• •Highly organized
• •Detail oriented and efficient
• •Ability to produce clear documentation
• •Excellent public speaking and presentation skills
• •Written communication skills
• •Creative and proactive
• •Discriminating
• •Professional, confidential, honest, and trustworthy
• •Even disposition
• •Ability to deal effectively and politely with people from all types of backgrounds and experience
• •Professional and caring demeanor
• •Strong work ethic
• •Collaborative
• •Conscientious
• •Results oriented
• •Ability to listen
• •Ability to influence and persuade others
• •Command of basic fundraising principles
• •High level of organization
• •Professionalism
• •Broad familiarity with the objectives of volunteer management
• •Annual, capital, and planned giving fundraising
• •Strong written and oral communication skills
• •Ability to manage volunteer committees
• •Ability to maximize dollar and participation results
• •Ability to secure both capital and annual support from alumni
• •Ability to develop and implement class-wide fundraising plans
• •Ability to develop individual prospect strategies
• •Ability to survey, solicit, and coordinate top donor prospects and volunteer leaders
• •Ability to identify, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding top prospects
• •Ability to determine independently solicitation strategies for prospects being targeted for Associates-level asks
• •Ability to solicit leadership- and associates-level gifts
• •Ability to enlist and manage volunteer leadership
• •Ability to establish a calendar
• •Ability to set goals
• •Ability to monitor metrics
• •Ability to report results
• •Ability to conduct reunion gift committee meetings and calls
• •Ability to devise strategic social events
• •Ability to identify key class leaders
• •Ability to intentionally guide conversations around diverse and inclusive representation
• •Ability to set clear expectations around roles and responsibilities
• •Ability to strategically guide volunteer committees
• •Ability to make solicitation assignments
• •Ability to provide resources to facilitate solicitations
• •Ability to follow up to close gifts and document pledges
• •Ability to appropriately steward volunteers
• •Ability to collaborate with HCF Management Team, Major Gifts, Gift Planning, Principal Gifts, Harvard Alumni Association, FAS Research and Prospect Management, Alumni & Development Services, Operations, Academic & Development Coordination, Academic & Donor Engagement, volunteers, and donors
• •Ability to direct work for and mentor a shared, full-time Development Assistant
• •Ability to collaborate periodically on special projects with the HCF Management Team and the FAS and UDO fundraising staff
• •Ability to work in a Harvard registered state
• •Ability to comply with the University's Policy on Employment Outside of Massachusetts

Desired Qualifications

• •English major