Position Title: Warrior Fund Coordinator

Lakehill Preparatory School seeks a full-time Warrior Fund Coordinator for the 2025-26 school year.

??The Warrior Fund Coordinator will manage and direct the planning, coordination, and management of all aspects of The Warrior Fund — the School’s annual fund.  This individual’s responsibilities will include developing a comprehensive annual giving plan that includes both the successful creation and implementation of a robust and thriving fundraising program to achieve, and ideally exceed, the goal for unrestricted and restricted funds each year.

Creating and building messages to appeal to all constituencies, the coordinator will work with volunteers to lead annual giving solicitations, including creative campaigns, acknowledgment and stewardship, and work toward a multi-year plan to increase annual giving support (both in dollars and participation percentages) from Lakehill constituencies, including parents and grandparents, past parents and grandparents, alumni, and faculty and staff. The coordinator will have a robust portfolio of donors, including current parents and grandparents, past parents and grandparents, alumni, faculty, and staff, among others. Goals will include donor upgrades, retention and acquisition, cultivation, and stewardship. Face-to-face meetings and communication with donors is required. 

This position assists with the identification and qualification of major gift prospective donors, and collaborates on the strategic marketing and outreach of planned giving to segmented audiences. Responsibilities include setting and achieving goals for donor upgrades, retention and acquisition; and analyzing and utilizing data to make decisions about growth opportunities and resource deployment. 

Lakehill Preparatory School guides motivated students to learn with curiosity, lead with confidence, and serve with compassion. Our challenging and nurturing educational community inspires students to become collaborative problem-solvers who live with integrity.

Responsibilities Include:

• Successful project management of the annual giving plan including the creation of message development and copy for both direct mail and email appeals with the goal of securing multi-year pledges
• Identifies and solicits volunteers to assist with annual giving solicitations
• Creatively develop ideas to build fundraising efforts 
• Prioritizes timely acknowledgment of gifts and stewardship of donors including in-person meetings, phone conversations, and written correspondence
• Maintains and ensures the integrity and accuracy of our donor database by providing information updates and completing timely and accurate contact reports
• In collaboration with the Marketing and Community Relations team, produce the Annual Report of Giving
• Develop and implement appropriate cultivation and stewardship events for annual fund donors
• In collaboration with the Marketing and Community Relations, create and maintain giving pages on the Lakehill website
• Occasional evening and weekend work, including events for Lakehill with alumni, parents, donors, and prospective families
• Other duties as assigned

Ideal candidates should have the following qualifications:

• A high level of professionalism, discretion, and confidentiality
• A bachelor's degree with previous experience in annual giving
• Knowledge of FACTS Giving and Network for Good
• Familiarity with Raiser's Edge fundraising software is advantageous but not essential
• Demonstrated capability in strategic planning, data analysis, solicitation, project management, and volunteer management
• Proficiency in Google Workspace and Microsoft Office
• Practical knowledge of annual giving operations and experience increasing donor participation
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work with a wide range of individuals
• Initiative and an ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Attention to detail, follow-through, and organization, and a genuine enthusiasm, positive presence, and flexibility
• A commitment to Lakehill’s vision of learning with curiosity, leading with confidence, and service with compassion through actively improving one’s craft and growing professionally, serving as a role model for our students.

About Lakehill Preparatory School

Established in 1971, Lakehill Preparatory School is an independent college preparatory school for students in kindergarten through grade 12. Offering a well-balanced program of academics, athletics, fine arts, and community service in a rigorous and nurturing learning environment, Lakehill is a special place where dedicated faculty help students realize their intellectual, physical, and creative potential, while recognizing their responsibilities as members of the community. Lakehill is staffed by passionate adults who are devoted to teaching and who model for students a life-long love of learning. Our extremely talented faculty look for the individual potential of each child and encourage engagement in a broad range of academic, artistic, athletic, and extracurricular activities. Lakehill is a community where you can be who you are and do what you love. The Lakehill experience fosters connections of all kinds – to classmates and teachers and friends, to new ideas, and to our unique traditions and history.

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