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The director’s primary responsibility is the strategic execution and management of a comprehensive annual giving program, including the coordination and oversight of supporting initiatives in the areas of development services and donor relations. 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• The Director develops a coordinated matrix of communication and solicitation strategies involving personal visits, email, direct mail, phone/mail, and volunteer engagement, all focused on shaping a sustainable tradition of annual support.
  
  In addition, the Director will foster the growth of best practices in the supporting areas of gift processing, data management and donor relations as related to annual giving and the School as a whole. The director has a keen appreciation for the foundation of annual giving as the enabling component of successful major and gift planning programs.
  
  The director provides strategic direction and long-range/short-range planning for all these areas in the context of growing the annual giving program while supporting the greater development and campaign goals of Hathaway Brown School.
  
  The director is responsible for ensuring that the School is a leader among peers as measured externally in terms of total dollars, percentage participation, consistency of giving and average gift size and internally in terms of clean data, ease of access to data and timely donor stewardship.
  
  This position reports to the Director of Advancement and supervises the Annual Giving Coordinator. 
• Along with the Director of Advancement, determines annual giving goals for the school. He/she builds strategic and tactical plans for achieving the set goal. This strategy will be a comprehensive plan utilizing the resources available through development services and donor relations.
  
  
• Focus on effective communication and solicitation activities within specific market segments identified as having potential for the greatest growth. 
  
  
• Coordinates all annual giving, development services and donor relations programs including phone company, faculty/staff campaigns, alumnae and parent volunteers, senior gift and other programs, data entry, report writing and generation, gift processing, donor stewardship, and all additional aspects of the school’s constituent relations software. 
  
  
• Formulate and execute a communications program supporting annual giving. Work effectively with major gifts team to gain strong participation in annual giving at Hathaway Brown and build strategies for moving donors to higher giving levels.
  
  
• Coordinate annual giving with reunion campaigns and other specialty constituents, such as trustees, in a sophisticated and effective fashion.
  
  
• Manage a prospect pool with annual goals for personal visits and giving outcomes. Create, develop and execute a highly effective and sustainable volunteer component within annual giving.

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of three to five years relevant experience in office management, marketing, volunteer coordination, and/or fundraising required.
• Be detail oriented and operate with extreme accuracy in a multi-tasked, fast-paced environment.
• Must possess exceptional organizational and time management skills as well as strong communication, interpersonal, and business writing skills.  
• Necessary to have a demonstrated understanding of social media including active participation in a wide variety of webpage and social media activities such as blogging and social book marking commenting.
• Advanced experience in Microsoft Office Programs and Blackbaud’s “Raisers Edge is required.

About Hathaway Brown School

Hathaway Brown is a school for girls, and it's so much more. It’s a school for scientists and writers and artists and budding entrepreneurs. It’s a training ground for athletes and dancers and musicians and actresses. It’s a place where young people are empowered to ask questions, challenge conventions and explore opportunities. And everything we do is guided by our motto: Non Scholae Sed Vitae Discimus - We Learn Not For School, But For Life. Since 1876, HB has given students the tools they need to confidently embrace all the possibilities that exist for them beyond our Shaker Heights campus. The faculty’s dedication to hands-on experiential learning at all levels can be observed every day in the classrooms, libraries, science labs, theatres, dance studios and art rooms, as well as on the athletic fields. In addition to the superior academic preparation they receive, at every turn HB students are inspired to become the best people they can be. We encourage girls of all ages and boys in our Early Childhood program to take chances, stretch their minds, work together, and pick themselves up and start over when they need to. The results of this philosophical approach are both ...astounding and humbling. Through the years, we’ve amassed more than our fair share of awards and accolades in every discipline you can imagine. Students continually perform with notable distinction on high-level tests and in the rate at which they’re accepted to their first-choice, top-tier colleges and universities. But no matter how well they fare by these measures, all of our students are able to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to their lives. They know how to test theories, challenge conventions, find beauty in overlooked places, implement creative solutions, and lend a hand where it’s needed. Wherever they go from here, HB graduates bring strong character, unparalleled intelligence, unbridled enthusiasm, and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge along with them.

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