The Senior Associate Director, Principal Gifts partners with the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Principal Gifts to manage their portfolio of Principal Partner prospects and for WashU Medicine, including those with the capacity to make gifts of $5M+. The Senior Associate Director works collaboratively with advancement colleagues, faculty, students, and university staff, and plays a vital role in the effort to secure significant support for WashU Medicine priorities.
Requirements
- Contribute to the management of principal gift prospect portfolios, advancing university-wide fundraising priorities as well as new and emerging initiatives.
- Accountable for key action items, follow-up, and project management in the delivery of prospect strategies within a rapidly evolving environment with competing priorities, opportunities, challenges, and deadlines.
- Partner with Assistant Vice Chancellor and Donor Experiences team to deliver innovative, creative, and individually tailored engagement, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship strategies.
- Provide source material for writers to draft complex and highly individualized proposals to attract transformational gifts to advance Washington University’s mission.
- Coordinate with Leadership Travel on briefing materials to prepare university leaders for cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of principal gift prospects.
- Interface with Donor Experiences, Donor Operations, Stewardship and Communications teams to develop plans, strategies and agendas around gift announcements and multifaceted prospect experiences and events.
Benefits
- Up to 22 days of vacation
- 10 recognized holidays, and sick time
- Competitive health insurance packages with priority appointments and lower copays/coinsurance
- Free Metro transit U-Pass for eligible employees
- Defined contribution (403(b)) Retirement Savings Plan
- Wellness challenges, annual health screenings, mental health resources, mindfulness programs and courses, employee assistance program (EAP), financial resources, access to dietitians, and more!
- 4 weeks of caregiver leave to bond with your new child
- Family care resources are also available for your continued childcare needs
- WashU covers the cost of tuition for you and your family, including dependent undergraduate-level college tuition up to 100% at WashU and 40% elsewhere after seven years with us
