Posted: 29-Jun-26
Location: Kansas City, Missouri
Type: Full Time
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Director of Leadership and Legacy Giving
Year round position - Immediate Opening
Job Summary: The Director of Leadership and Legacy Giving provides strategic leadership for Pembroke Hill School's leadership, major, and planned giving programs. This role blends sophisticated donor portfolio management with cross-team collaboration to elevate the growth, stewardship and upgrade strategies of key giving societies- specifically the Vassie James Hill Society and the Founders Circle.
Key Responsibilities
- Pipeline Growth: Design strategic multi-year donor upgrade paths and blended gift frameworks.
- Portfolio Management: Cultivate, solicit, and manage approximately 70 high-capacity donor prospects.
- Donor Stewardship: Direct recognition strategies and promotional campaigns for leadership giving societies.
- Team Collaboration: Partner with school leadership and advancement team members to align fundraising goals.
- Budget & Metrics: Track data-driven performance metrics and oversee program budget management
Schedule: This is a year-round position, paid time off in accordance with employee benefit plans.
Compensation: Compensation will be based on a competitive market norm, using qualifications including experience. Transcripts and verification of employment will be required. Benefits include health, dental, retirement match (up to 8%), professional development opportunities, PHS tuition remission, free lunch, and more!
About Pembroke Hill School: Pembroke Hill School is an independent school in Kansas City, Missouri. Pembroke Hill seeks to fulfill our mission by recognizing that diversity, belonging, equity, and inclusion are integral elements of school and community life. Our mission-inspired goal is together, cultivating the best in each, for the benefit of all. Cultivating each to be a global thinker and valuable member of the PHS community poised to acquire the academic and life skills that make a significant difference for all.
Physical Demands for position:
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Ability to sit and stand for extended periods. For elementary and lower school, sit on the floor for extended periods of time.
- Ability to enter data into a computer, to see and read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids
- Ability to hear and understand speech at normal classroom levels, outdoors, and on the telephone
- Ability to speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in normal classrooms, outdoors, and on the telephone
- Physical ability to lift, carry and/or hold up to 40 pounds to shoulder height and 50 pounds to waist height
- Ability to occasionally balance, reach, bend, squat, stoop, or kneel
- Ability to climb stairs, walk, and occasionally run, if required
Due to the nature of education, Pembroke Hill School requires employees to work in-person. If all assigned work can be completed and essential functions can be met, this requirement may be temporarily waived as a reasonable accommodation for a temporary (short) period of time.
Pembroke Hill School participates in E- Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S. at the time of hire.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 3- 5 years of progressive fundraising experience, including demonstrable success in major gifts, leadership annual giving, and planned giving.
- Proven track record in developing and executing donor upgrade strategies and successfully managing high-net-worth donor portfolios.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the confidence and sophistication to engage trustees, senior leadership, and high-capacity donors.
- Experience in donor stewardship design, campaign planning, and targeted advancement marketing strategies.
