Development Director

About the role

The Development Director position at Coastal Carolina University is seeking a dynamic leader to manage and establish goal-setting priorities for an assigned portfolio, ensuring alignment with overall fundraising objectives for the university.

Responsibilities

• Manage and establish goal-setting priorities for an assigned portfolio, ensuring alignment with overall fundraising objectives for Coastal Carolina University and optimizing efforts to maximize donor engagement and contributions.
• Secure financial support for a range of campus-wide priorities, including academic programs, endowed chairs, scholarships, program and unrestricted support, new facilities, and campus improvements.
• Travel regularly to meet with prospects and donors, cultivating relationships, identifying new opportunities for support, and advancing the university’s fundraising goals.
• Provide strategic counsel and collaboration to the Office for Advancement and Alumni Relations staff on prospect management, offering insights and guidance to enhance fundraising strategies and outcomes.
• Participate actively in all stages of the gift cycle, from identifying prospects to stewardship, ensuring a comprehensive approach to donor engagement and retention.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and proven experience in major gift/development, donor relations, sales or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been acquired may be substituted.
• Experience in fundraising, sales, and/or marketing in higher education is preferred; Master’s degree preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and proven experience in major gift/development, donor relations, sales or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been acquired may be substituted.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Skills

• Must have the ability to understand the needs and interests of leadership and major gift donors to develop relationships between the donors and the fundraising priorities of the university through the development of excellent relationships with faculty senior academic leaders, trustees, volunteers, and the Office for Advancement and Alumni Engagement team.
• Demonstrated initiative and self-discipline to successfully manage multi-functional or diverse areas.
• Successful experience in making cold calls as well as developing cultivation and solicitation stages.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a demonstrated record of completing assignments is essential.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

$57,700.00 (minimum) – $103,900.00 (maximum).

Schedule

Normal work hours are Monday through Thursday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Friday 8:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Must be flexible to meet the special scheduling needs of the university.