Associate Director for Donor Relations and Communications

By conceiving and producing fundraising and stewardship materials used with individual major donors well as with mass audiences, this position contributes to a communications effort that is instrumental to the College's fundraising success. The position plays an important role in the University's upcoming comprehensive fundraising campaign by translating College campaign priorities into compelling narratives and engagement opportunities and contributing to the delivery of integrated communications across digital platforms and channels. Key duties include developing and executing content that advances fundraising and campaign priorities in support of the College of Arts and Sciences; managing the full time public communications specialist on the team; collecting, interpreting and disseminating information about the College's priorities and the College's more than 1,000 donor established funds; communicating accurately, clearly, efficiently and effectively the importance of private support for the College; ; writing targeted proposals for gifts of $100,000 and up; and writing news and feature stories and other materials for publication. Special emphasis is placed on communicating the campaign priorities for the College in the next pan-university campaign and showing the impact of previously committed gifts.