Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree plus a minimum of five years of planned giving experience.
- Demonstrated experience building successful, productive and collaborative relationships with top university administrators, deans and board members.
- Demonstrated experience staffing dean’s councils, advisory boards and committees.
- Demonstrated professional maturity, competency, and skilled problem-solving.
- A willingness and ability to travel (at least one trip per month); evening and weekend work is required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Understanding of complex planned giving vehicles.
- Knowledge of wealth transfer planning, including wills, trusts and estate and gift tax laws.
- Ability to have complex gift conversations and a track record of closing planned gifts or negotiating contracts.
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills, as well as analytical, research and management skills.
- Knowledge of, and commitment, to the use of information technology to support advancement programs.
- Strong interpersonal skills, particularly with donors, volunteers and staff members from diverse backgrounds.
- Ability to position the Deans to maximize their potential as a fundraiser for the College/School.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders (students, alumni, faculty, staff) from diverse backgrounds.