About the job
Advancement Office is seeking a Manager/Senior Manager who will be leading the Annual Giving Campaign at SUSS and be a strategic collaborator in identifying, cultivating, soliciting and stewarding annual giving donors.
The incumbent reports to the Director and will manage the Annual Giving campaign. He/she will be responsible for facilitating all phases of the gift cycle, including initiating contact, cultivating and moving potential donors to solicitation and closure, creating solicitations, and stewarding donors. The ideal candidate is a skilled relationship-builder, results-oriented, creative and enthusiastic while being extremely collaborative, organised and strategic.
He/she will support the Director in identifying and implementing strategies for success in the annual giving campaign and work collaboratively with key volunteers, leadership and faculty and colleagues to cultivate donors for university priorities.
What you will be doing
- Design, implement, coordinate and grow all annual giving campaigns, including but not limited to online, direct mail, newsletter, events.
- Proactively identify, develop and deliver engagement opportunities to annual donors to ensure the maximisation of their financial and non-financial support.
- Research, develop, and write funding proposals and appeal letters as required.
- Be accountable for meeting or exceeding established monthly fundraising goals and metrics.
- Be accountable for cultivating relationships of individual giving with a focus on retention, recapture, and growth.
- Collaborate with colleagues to develop and maintain a coordinated approach in support of overall departmental and university-wide goals.
- Timely completion of donor documents to indicate donor commitments.
- Assist in hosting various development events.
Job Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree.
- Minimum 5 years’ fundraising experience in annual giving/campaigns and appeals.
- Proactive, energetic personality who enjoys meeting with donors, and partners and multi-tasking between partners, various teams and key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated successful complex individual selling-related experience or any equivalent combination of education and/or experience from which comparable knowledge, skill and abilities have been achieved.
- Strong interpersonal, verbal and written skills and the ability to collaborate, build alliances and achieve results within a population that may possess competing interests, opinions, and /or expectations.
- Collaborative, energetic, self-motivated, and engaging professional with strong multi-tasking skills and sound judgment who can effectively and diplomatically work with diverse groups of alumni and donors, colleagues, members of the faculty, high-level administrators, volunteer leaders, and other constituents.
- Superior verbal and written communication skills; effective organisational skills and strong detail orientation; the ability to speak and present credibly and effectively about higher education and the goals and mission of the university.
- A high degree of customer service orientation, personal motivation and commitment to values that support the university’s philanthropic mission and vision.
- Demonstrate strong active listening skills and ability to negotiate positive outcomes.
- An ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality with respect to prospects and donors.
- Good knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and donor database software
What Do We Offer
At SUSS, we advocate the Spirit of Learning and pride ourselves as lifelong learners. You will gain access to various learning platforms and plenty of development opportunities to support your growth in a meaningful career!
Besides that, you will also get:
• Competitive Pay Package
• Hybrid Work Arrangement (Subject to Job Role)
• Medical Benefits
• Flex Benefits (Dental, WFH Equipment, Gym Memberships, etc.)
• Family Care Leaves
• Volunteer Service Leaves
• Wellness & Recreation Activities
• Lifelong Learning Opportunities
• Career Development Opportunities through Internal Job
