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Position Summary

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Demonstrate to donors the impact of their giving. Provide information on university developments and programs relative to their interests. Share upcoming opportunities to attend events, volunteer, participate in activities/services, or otherwise deepen their engagement with NIU.
• Solicit donors to make new gifts, renew or upgrade. Promote philanthropic opportunities, such as university and college giving priorities, crowdfunding projects, Huskies United
• Identify and troubleshoot challenges to donors’ on-line giving and engagement experience and work with appropriate colleagues to address
• Generate and refer major and planned gift leads to appropriate team members.

• Manage a portfolio of 1,000 current, lapsed and prospective leadership annual giving donors. Cultivate relationships with these donors via email, phone, social media, video conferencing, texting, and EverTrue’s cloud platform.
• Execute monthly and quarterly touchpoint cadences across portfolio to ensure consistent and relevant donor communication
• Provide regular progress reports on prospect identification and qualification. Complete and file reports of all contacts and proposals in a timely manner.
• Apply data analytics to develop and execute strategies to make initial contact with current and prospective donors.

• Develop and maintain broad knowledge of the university, such as admissions, athletics, colleges, and continuing education through cross-campus networking. Establish resource hub of relevant content to share with donors.
• Collaborate effectively with other members of the Annual Giving, Major Gifts, Communications, Gift Planning and Athletics teams as part of a comprehensive multi-channel marketing program, including direct mail, email, social media and phone channels.

Minimum Required Qualifications (Civil Service)

Specialty Factors (Civil Service)

Preferred Qualifications (Civil Service)

Minimum Required Qualifications (SPS)

• Bachelor’s degree;
• Previous experience working with a higher education institution;
• Project coordination experience.

Additional Requirements (SPS)

• Ability to prioritize and organize complex projects and plans to deliver results.
• Ability to communicate effectively and persuasively with a diverse donor base.
• Demonstrated communications and interpersonal skills, with an emphasis on engaged listening, and success working in a team setting.
• Results-oriented, quality-driven and team-oriented.
• Ability to analyze substantial amounts of statistical data and report findings.
• Demonstrated strong work ethic and entrepreneurial mentality. A high-level of integrity, focus and commitment to achieve ambitious goals is essential.
• Strong customer-service focus; excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and a proven ability to work patiently, persuasively, and effectively with a wide variety of people, including students, faculty, staff, donors, and alumni.
• Ability to synthesize multiple sources of information.

Preferred Qualifications (SPS)

• Experience calling, conducting face-to-face appointments, managing relationships, creating and presenting proposals, and other fundamental elements of client/donor relationship or sales-related activities.
• Passion and enthusiasm for the university and the mission of the foundation.
• Driven and hard working.
• Ability to translate relationship building beyond individuals to building relationships with corporations and private foundations.