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Location

Edison, NJ | United States

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Job description

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Create, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive annual giving fundraising plan designed to engage, renew, upgrade, and steward donors. 
• Serve as a gift officer, responsible for the qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of leadership gift prospective donors and meet monthly goals.
• Create the strategy, themes, donor, and monetary goals for individual constituencies and an execution plan for all annual giving programs. 
• Partner with external and internal communications and marketing colleagues to manage comprehensive, integrated, multi-channel (mail, digital, phone, etc.) Annual Fund solicitations, including timing, messaging, and segmentation, and oversee proper stewardship, including acknowledgment and gift recognition.  
• Partner with the team members to coordinate efforts to engage, cultivate, solicit, and steward alumni donors.
• Oversee Annual Fund volunteers, including recruitment, management, and training.
• Produce analytical reports on the progress and performance of the annual giving program in order to understand donor behaviors and develop strategies to maximize revenue. 
• In collaboration with the Development Team, coordinate and execute special events related to donor stewardship and cultivation. 
• Serve as an organizational leader of the school’s fundraising effort, demonstrating high personal and professional integrity and promoting open, positive collaboration. 
• Promote a strong culture of philanthropy and collaborate with department colleagues and cross-departmentally with Marketing and Communications and Admission to develop and implement a strategy to onboard and steward new parents to educate them in the school’s giving culture and steward their relationship with the school.  
• Work to ensure donor records are up to date and ongoing prospect research and prospect briefs are created for annual giving solicitations, events, and stewardship activities.
• Anticipate project needs, discern work priorities, meet deadlines with little supervision, and be willing to travel and work occasional evenings and weekends.
• Assume other duties as assigned. 

Minimum Qualifications

• A minimum of two years’ experience in the field of fundraising, preferably annual giving, ideally in an independent school. 
• A strong sense of fundraising ethics and practices and respect for confidentiality of donor information.
• A track record as an exceptional communicator, in writing as well as verbally; adept at writing proposals, solicitation letters, donor correspondence, and other kinds of material for publication; outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with a professional and empathetic approach. 
• Experience managing volunteers and support staff through a positive, motivating leadership style, including strong verbal and written skills, emotional maturity, self-confidence, and a sense of humor.
• Demonstrated ability to build and maintain positive personal relationships with the many staff and stakeholders whose support is critical to Wardlaw+Hartridge’s success.
• Superior organizational and planning skills that enable the department and school to meet both short and long-term goals. 
• Advanced computer skills, including Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Raiser’s Edge, GiveCampus, and web-based applications.
• Availability to work some evenings and weekends.

The Wardlaw+Hartridge School strongly encourages applications from those who will contribute to the rich diversity of our community.

Interested candidates should email Yasmyn Callender at [email protected] with a letter of interest and resume. 

Wardlaw+Hartridge welcomes and encourages applications from diverse candidates. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender, identity, disability, national or ethnic origin, or other legally protected status.

EOE

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