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Department: Development - Fordham Fund

Position Summary:

Essential Functions:

• Qualifies, cultivates, and solicits a portfolio of 125 Fordham alumni, parents and friends capable of making annual gifts of $1,000 or more, retaining and increasing giving from existing donors, and increasing the number of total dollars for the university and/or the assigned school.
• Develops a strong understanding of a specific school's mission, strengths, and priorities in order to personally solicit donors and equip major and principal gift colleagues to solicit on the school's behalf.
• Works directly with the Dean to create and execute broad based fundraising plans, builds connections with potential donors, and steers cultivation and ongoing relationships.
• Collaborates with the Fordham Fund and Marketing and Communications colleagues to develop compelling mail and email solicitations and crowdfunding campaigns.
• Records moves, asks, and outcomes including contact reports, rating and staffing changes, proposals, and gift commitments in the Fundraising Performance Management (CRM) system.
• Collaborates with colleagues throughout the Development and University Relations division to ensure effective, efficient, and coordinated fundraising strategies and assist, where needed, in reunions, Homecoming, and other important university-wide special events.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business, liberal arts, communications or related field.
• Minimum four years of experience in development, demonstrating a successful track record in solicitation efforts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of and commitment to the goals of Jesuit education as well as those of the Graduate Schools of Education and Social Service.

Minimum Salary: $80,000

Maximum Salary: $90,000

About Fordham University

Fordham Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its 9 colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United kingdom.

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