PROJECT MANAGER II

About the role

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) seeks a PROJECT MANAGER II to oversee a broad range of development and alumni related functions specific to the School of Nursing.

Responsibilities

• Builds, nurtures, and maintains relationships with the Board of Visitors, the Junior Board of Visitors, and with individuals inside and outside the UAB community to generate goodwill for philanthropic support.
• Communicates with and supports the engagement of nationally prominent alumni, donors, foundations, volunteers, and prospects; designs and implements successful fundraising events.
• Provides high-level customer service to internal and external stakeholders to support the cultivation and stewardship of major gift donors.
• Works with leadership of both boards to meet annual event-fundraising goals, to recruit new members, clinical partnerships and scholarship, and to provide board members with meaningful onboarding and volunteer experiences.
• Strategically manages and engages the 100+ members of the Board of Visitors (BOV) and Junior Board of Visitors (JBOV) by cultivating and nurturing relationships with members; coordinates appropriate and timely messaging.
• Plays a key role in developing and implementing comprehensive plans for BOV and JBOV annual fundraising-events, in collaboration with BOV and JBOV leadership, to fund strategic priorities of the school.
• Responsible for meeting annual event-fundraising metrics and goals.
• Develops and implements plans for providing appropriate and timely holiday stewardship efforts, including holiday cards and year-end gifts.
• Serves as the school's liaison to the Central Advancement Office, providing them with requested information, data, report summaries, content, photos, and edits for university-level thank you letters, impact reports and stewardship reports for major gift donors.
• Manages the daily office activities; tracks multiple office projects and ensures that objectives and timetables are met.
• Attends key SON and UAB meetings as needed; collects content for and prepares agendas for monthly meetings.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Communications, English or a related field and five (5) years of related experience required. Work experience may NOT substitute for education requirement.

Experience in fund-raising/events, customer service, volunteer management or outside sales in a corporate or business setting with a successful record of opening and maintaining new accounts, coordinating events, and selling tangible and intangible products preferred.

Experience in a fundraising office benefitting higher education/Healthcare is preferred.

Must have strong communication, etiquette, interpersonal, and organizational skills and be able to work evening and weekend events on occasion.

Experience with Excel, ASANA, Moves Management, SharePoint, UAB Blazer-Net and Self-Service Banner, Native Banner, Prospect Research databases (Lexis-Nexis), PowerPoint, and Adobe preferred.

Qualifications

Must have a Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Communications, English or a related field and five (5) years of related experience.

Preferred qualifications include experience in fund-raising/events, customer service, volunteer management or outside sales in a corporate or business setting with a successful record of opening and maintaining new accounts, coordinating events, and selling tangible and intangible products.

Preferred qualifications also include experience in a fundraising office benefitting higher education/Healthcare.

Must have strong communication, etiquette, interpersonal, and organizational skills and be able to work evening and weekend events on occasion.

Preferred qualifications also include experience with Excel, ASANA, Moves Management, SharePoint, UAB Blazer-Net and Self-Service Banner, Native Banner, Prospect Research databases (Lexis-Nexis), PowerPoint, and Adobe.

Skills

Strong communication, etiquette, interpersonal, and organizational skills.

Ability to work evening and weekend events on occasion.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

$52,555 - $85,400

Schedule

Day/1st Shift