Senior Director, Leadership & Annual Giving - Cal State Long Beach in Issaquah, Washington

Location

Issaquah, Washington

Job Type

Full-time

Company

Another Source

## About this opportunity

What if annual giving wasn’t just about giving days and mass appeals? Cal State Long Beach is looking for a creative, strategy-minded fundraising leader to rethink how donor engagement and leadership giving can build meaningful, long-term relationships between alumni, supporters, and the university. Another Source is proud to partner with Cal State Long Beach to help identify this innovative fundraising leader.

The anticipated annual salary range for this position is $115,000- 140,000, commensurate with experience. The position is based in Long Beach, California on the Cal State Long Beach campus.

### A bit about the team and the role

The University Relations and Development division builds relationships and generates resources that strengthen the university's capacity to achieve its mission. The Senior Director of Leadership & Annual Giving provides strategic leadership for integrated annual and leadership giving initiatives designed to strengthen donor engagement and build a sustainable pipeline of philanthropic support. This role oversees multi-channel annual giving campaigns, donor retention and acquisition strategies, and leadership giving initiatives that build and strengthen a donor pipeline that advances annual donors into leadership and major gift engagement.

Partnering closely with advancement leadership, alumni engagement, colleges, and campus partners, this person will develop innovative engagement strategies, implement data-informed fundraising approaches, and support the growth of leadership-level philanthropy across the institution.

### How you will spend your time

You will lead annual giving program management by developing and executing integrated, multi-channel annual giving campaigns including direct mail, email, digital outreach, social media, crowdfunding, personalized donor engagement strategies, and other innovative fundraising campaigns. You will develop segmentation and donor engagement strategies focused on acquisition, retention, reactivation, and donor upgrades. Tracking campaign performance, evaluating ROI, and implementing improvements to increase donor participation and long-term engagement will be part of your day-to-day.

On the leadership giving and pipeline side, you will develop and oversee strategies to cultivate, solicit, and steward leadership-level donors and implement moves management strategies that advance annual donors into leadership and major giving pipelines. You will coordinate donor transitions and prospect strategies with major gift officers and development colleagues and develop leadership giving societies, stewardship initiatives, and donor recognition programs to encourage philanthropic growth.

In a strategic and operational capacity you will partner with advancement leadership, colleges, and campus stakeholders to align fundraising priorities and engagement strategies; oversee program budgets, vendor relationships, and operational effectiveness; provide leadership, coaching, and professional development support to assigned staff; and monitor donor lifecycle trends to implement continuous improvement strategies.

### What we require

- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience.

- Minimum of seven years of related professional fundraising or advancement experience, preferably in higher education.

- Experience supervising professional staff.

- Strong knowledge of annual giving strategies, donor lifecycle management, segmentation, and moves management principles.

- Experience developing and executing integrated multi-channel fundraising campaigns.

- Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

- Excellent organizational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

- Demonstrated ability to build collaborative relationships across diverse stakeholders.

- Valid driver’s license required.

### Preferred experience and skills

Experience working within higher education advancement or a similarly complex organization; experience using fundraising analytics, CRM systems, and donor engagement platforms; and knowledge of digital fundraising trends, crowdfunding, and giving day strategies are all called out as preferred.

### Why a career with CSU is for you

The CSU system offers employees a comprehensive benefits package typically worth 30-35% of your base salary. Highlights noted in the posting include: immerse yourself in campus life and events; a tuition waiver up to 2 courses, or 6 units, per semester for employee, spouse, registered domestic partner or eligible dependent child for any of the 23 campuses; a mission-driven culture; continuation of salary while on jury duty; Cal. PERS Retirement Plan with lifetime medical benefits for you, your spouse, or registered domestic partner; a 403(b) Supplemental Retirement Plan; employees in this classification are entitled to two vacation days (16 hours) per month; access to athletic and gym facilities on campus; and pre-tax commuter benefits.

### Equal employment and how we recruit

The California State University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to nondiscrimination on the basis of age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, gender, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, race, religion or lack thereof, sex, sexual orientation, transgender, or protected veteran status consistent with applicable federal and state laws. This policy applies to all CSU students, faculty and staff programs and activities. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, and certain other federal and state laws, prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex in all education programs and activities operated by the university (both on and off campus).

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