Assistant Director of Class Giving

Founded in 1917, Providence College (PC) is a premier Catholic liberal arts institution steadfastly committed to academic excellence through a dynamic core curriculum, a distinctive Development of Western Civilization Program, and abundant experiential learning opportunities. The only U.S. higher education institution administered by the Dominican Friars, PC is committed to providing a variety of opportunities for intellectual, social, moral, and spiritual growth in a supportive environment. Providence College believes that cultural and intellectual pluralism is essential to the excellence of its academic programs, and strives to foster an academic culture and campus community reflecting the global environment in which we live and work.

The approximately 105-acre campus is situated in Rhode Island’s capital city and is close to the many cultural and educational offerings of Rhode Island’s “renaissance city.” Additionally, Providence is located an hour from Boston and just a few hours from New York City.

For years, Providence College has been recognized in the U.S. News & World Report “Regional Universities – North Category” and has been commended by several other ranking publications.

Overview

Secure leadership-level annual gifts, and drive donor growth through The Fund for Providence College (FFPC), with primary responsibility for assigned class-year cohorts, including current reunion, reunion +1, and reunion -1 classes. Develop and execute personalized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies that increase leadership annual giving support, strengthen donor loyalty, and advance class-based fundraising goals. Contribute to the overall goals of The Fund for Providence College and the Advancement Team by building a strong pipeline of leadership annual giving donors and qualifying prospects for major gift potential.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Grow leadership level philanthropy and build a pipeline of leadership annual giving relationships within those cohorts. Leadership giving potential with a focus on raising dollars and donors through FFPC. This includes developing and maintaining relationships with key leadership gift (and prospective leadership gift) constituents as assigned and proactively identifying and engaging new prospects. Ensure effective qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of constituents to drive increased FFPC support. Increase levels of annual and long-term engagement and giving guided by specific fundraising metrics. (45%)
2. Execute personalized cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies through a combination of phone, email, digital, virtual, and in-person outreach designed to increase leadership annual giving support. Build and manage relationships to secure leadership annual gifts, strengthen donor loyalty, and advance class-based fundraising goals. Effectively utilize CRM for all aspects of portfolio management including tracking of all contacts, visits, and solicitations with comprehensive contacts and activity reports. (45%)
3. Work to maximize fundraising productivity; provide staff support and develop productive working relationships with staff, faculty, deans, administrators, and key volunteers. Partner with Advancement colleagues, including Alumni Relations and Research & Pipeline Development, to leverage engagement insights, volunteer activity, giving trends, geographic analysis, constituent interests, and prospect intelligence to inform class-based fundraising strategies. (10%)

MARGINAL DUTIES:

1. Perform all other duties as may be required.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution required.
• Three to five years’ experience in advancement, volunteer management, alumni engagement, annual giving, higher education fundraising, project coordinator or a related professional environment.
• Basic experience or a curiosity and willingness to learn new technologies in CRM systems.
• Intermediate level knowledge with Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe, Zoom/Teams.
• Willingness/ability to travel and work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Ability to solicit/steward annual fund contributions.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple responsibilities and competing deadlines.
• Comfortable using data and reports.
• Cold calling experience preferred.
• Experience in higher education preferred.
• Experience in personal one-on-one solicitation fundraising preferred.

Supplemental Information

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sitting in a normal seated position for extended periods of time
• Reaching by extending hand(s) or arm(s) in any direction
• Finger dexterity required to manipulate objects with fingers rather than with whole hand(s) or arm(s), for example, using a keyboard
• Communication skills using the spoken word
• Ability to see within normal parameters
• Ability to hear within normal range
• Ability to move about

DISCLAIMER: This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be asked to perform other duties as required.