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Job Description:        Assistant Director of Annual Giving

Classification:            Full Time, Salaried, Exempt

Reports to:                 Director of Institutional Advancement

Job Summary:

Foxcroft School seeks a dynamic, engaging and creative individual to join the Office of Institutional Advancement as the Assistant Director of Annual Giving. Working with the Director of Institutional Advancement, this person is responsible for designing and implementing the fundraising strategies needed to meet an annual giving goal of $1 million. The Assistant Director of Annual Giving will effectively manage a stewardship group of approximately 150 donors moving them along a continuum from cultivation to making a gift, support a successful reunion giving plan, work with alumnae and parent volunteers and assist with constituent engagement.  The Assistant Director of Annual Giving works in concert with the other members of the Advancement Team on all fundraising and friendraising efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designs, implements, and manages The Foxcroft Circle, the School’s annual giving program, by developing strategies to meet the budgetary goal set by the Board of Trustees each year.
• Participates in all aspects of the gift cycle from initiating contacts with potential and existing donors to developing cultivation strategies, working with volunteers, soliciting gifts and effectively closing asks, and maintaining stewardship contacts with donors.
• Creates and manages yearly micro-annual giving campaigns for young alumnae and parents, giving days, and other special fundraising efforts.
• Designs collateral fundraising materials – print, digital and video – for yearly annual giving efforts.
• Researches donors and creates data driven reports on constituent giving and trends.
• Supports Class Representative engagement efforts.
• Assists with alumnae relations and supports reunion giving efforts as well as other fundraising initiatives.

No job description can anticipate all responsibilities as such; there may be other assigned duties.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 2-4 years of related work experience required
• Proven experience successfully fundraising from and engaging a diverse community
• Ability to develop, implement, and maintain new or existing programs
• Strong interpersonal skills; donor centered mindset and ability to build and nurture relationships with multiple constituencies
• Ability to research donors to develop individual giving plans and grow the donor pool
• Ability to synthesize data to analyze giving trends and adjust/implement changes to solicitation strategies and approaches accordingly
• Excellent writing and communication skills.
• Experience utilizing social media to support engagement efforts
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with staff and a team of volunteers
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, proven management of multiple projects and a demonstrated aptitude for setting priorities and meeting deadlines
• Ability to travel and work evening/weekend hours, as required
• High level of professionalism, discretion and confidentiality required
• Proficiency using technology applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Blackbaud’s Raisers Edge, experience and knowledge of InDesign a plus.

Other Qualifications:

All prospective employees must be able to clear a fingerprint and background check and TB screening.

Our community welcomes and celebrates the diverse histories, experiences, and identities of each of its members, and we believe that shared experiences - formal and informal - within a diverse community foster authentic human relationships and growth.

Foxcroft School strongly encourages the use of COVID-19 vaccines to safeguard the health of our students in a boarding school program, our employees, our families, visitors, and the community at large. 

Physical Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

While performing the duties of this position an incumbent is required to regularly remain sedentary for long periods of time in meetings and while processing information and paper work both manually and on a computer. 

The employee is required to stand; walk; use hands and arms to reach and hands to type and manipulate a computer keyboard and mouse. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus. Additionally, the incumbent must be able to converse in clear English both written and orally, over a telephone and in person. The employee is regularly required to listen, physically direct, and speak. 

Occasionally, an incumbent may be required to lift up to 25 pounds, traverse uneven terrain and climb stairs while moving about campus, bend and stoop. Work hours may vary and include days, nights, and weekends. Employees may be required to drive a vehicle for student needs and/or on School business. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderately quiet; however, variations in noise level may occur when the employee attends school functions such as assemblies, school dances, and other events.

About Foxcroft School

The School Founded in 1914, Foxcroft School is a college-preparatory boarding and day school for girls in grades 9-12. The school is located on 500 acres in Middleburg, Virginia, 50 miles west of Washington, D.C. It is accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools and the National Association of Independent Schools. The Student Body Foxcroft is, by design, a small, residential school. The 2015-16 student body is 70 percent boarding students with a total of 167 girls from 18 states, Washington D.C., and 14 countries. Seventeen percent are U.S. students of color, 25 percent international students and more than 30 percent receive financial aid. More than 15 percent of the students are related to alumnae -- an impressive testament to the relationship between the School and its graduates. Academic Excellence Foxcroft curriculum offerings number 83 courses and 14 Advanced Placement (AP) courses, as well as academic support through the Learning Center and the Math and English Labs. In 2015, 21 students -- including 10 members of the (then) Junior Class, earned AP Scholar recognition from the College Board. Seven girls earned AP Scholar with Distinction Award ...status by achieving an average of at least 3.5 (out of five) on all the AP exams taken and scores of 3 or higher on five or more tests. Nationwide, only 22 percent of students who take AP Exams earn such recognition. (AP Scholars must earn a grade of three or higher on three or more AP Exams.) Fabulous Faculty The student:faculty ratio is 6:1 and 83 percent of the teaching faculty have advanced degrees. About 85 percent of the faculty live on campus and all are available outside of class for extra help, review, and additional work. A diverse group, 16 percent of our classroom teachers are people of color/multiracial, and individual members have lived and worked all over the world, including Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, and Switzerland. Above and Beyond Foxcroft is at the forefront of STEM education and inspiring girls to pursue these vital fields of study: More than 35 percent of its 2014 graduates chose STEM fields as their majors in college -- compared to 20 percent nationally. Science and Math faculty incorporate new teaching strategies, technologies, projects, and service learning into students’ lives and School facilities include STEM lab, an engineering workshop, an Animal Room and interactive whiteboards in every classroom. In addition, the Read Observatory houses a Newtonian-Cassegrain reflecting telescope, two 8-inch Celestron telescopes, and astrophotography and solar-observing accessories. After Foxcroft Members of the Class of 2015 received 128 acceptances to 85 colleges and universities across the country and around the world. See a full list of acceptances in the College Counseling section of our website.

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