The Director of Annual Giving Austin Prep
The Director of Annual Giving for Austin Prep reports to the Director of Development and is responsible for the strategic design and implementation of Austin Prep’s comprehensive annual giving program, the Austin Prep Fund. The Director leads programs, events, initiatives, and communications aimed at increasing current use giving and donor participation while supporting the School’s greater development and campaign goals. The Director strengthens existing relationships and builds new ones while increasing participation and giving to the Austin Prep Fund, creating a pipeline for future philanthropic giving to the school.
Duties & Responsibilities:
• Support the School and its leadership in advancing the mission of Austin Prep and safeguarding the School’s Roman Catholic identity and Augustinian heritage.
• Develop, implement, and manage strategies for maximizing philanthropic support of the Austin Prep Fund, including all goals, objectives, and tasks in an effort to build unrestricted Annual Fund giving to the $1M level in the next 3-5 years. Collaborate with the Director of Development and senior leadership to align strategies with the school’s goals and vision.
• Create and manage a detailed plan for the Austin Prep Fund, including objectives, approach (direct mail, email, online giving, social media, etc.), segmentation strategy and schedule, brief for appeal materials, roles for volunteers, and communications to educate and solicit constituents.
• Determine donor targets by constituent groups while building strategies for moving donors to higher annual giving levels.
• Oversee all annual giving programs including annual Day of Giving, faculty/staff campaigns, parent class agent program, senior gift, and other activities.
Skills & Qualifications:
• 5-7 years of successful direct fundraising experience, preferably in an academic setting.
• Independent and strategic thinker capable of understanding the full scope of an annual fund campaign while seeing individual tasks through completion.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Must be able to manage several tasks simultaneously, possessing an ability to prioritize multiple tasks and manage deadlines effectively, while working with a high level of integrity and extraordinary work ethic.
• Ability to work creatively to match donor interests with the school’s priorities and build meaningful relationships with individuals for purposes of cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of gifts to the school.
Our Commitment To Mission
The mission of Austin Prep is to “inspire hearts to unite, minds to inquire, and hands, to serve” which we exemplify through the Augustinian charisms of veritas, unitas, and caritas. Austin Prep is a Roman Catholic Augustinian secondary school committed to Catholic social teaching which is based on and inseparable from our understanding of human life and human dignity. Every human being is created in the image and likeness of God and is therefore invaluable and worthy of dignity and respect as a member of the human family. Austin Prep encourages applications from candidates who appreciate, understand, and respect the mission of Austin Prep and the School’s Catholic identity. We seek applicants who can help enrich the School’s Roman Catholic Augustinian mission and can help advance our commitment to what Pope Francis calls “integral human development.”
