The Director of Annual Giving reports to the Director of Development and is responsible for the strategic design and implementation of Austin Prep’s comprehensive annual giving program, the Austin Prep Fund. The Director leads programs, events, initiatives, and communications aimed at increasing current use giving and donor participation while supporting the School’s greater development and campaign goals. The Director strengthens existing relationships and builds new ones while increasing participation and giving to the Austin Prep Fund, creating a pipeline for future philanthropic giving to the school. Duties & Responsibilities: • Support the School and its leadership in advancing the mission of Austin Prep and safeguarding the School’s Roman Catholic identity and Augustinian heritage. • Develop, implement, and manage strategies for maximizing philanthropic support of the Austin Prep Fund, including all goals, objectives, and tasks in an effort to build unrestricted Annual Fund giving to the $1M level in the next 3-5 years. Collaborate with the Director of Development and senior leadership to align strategies with the school’s goals and vision. • Create and manage a detailed plan for the Austin Prep Fund, including objectives, approach (direct mail, email, online giving, social media, etc.), segmentation strategy and schedule, brief for appeal materials, roles for volunteers, and communications to educate and solicit constituents. • Determine donor targets by constituent groups while building strategies for moving donors to higher annual giving levels. • Oversee all annual giving programs including annual Day of Giving, faculty/staff campaigns, parent class agent program, senior gift, and other activities. • Manage a prospect pool of roughly 100 leadership-level annual giving prospects with annual goals for personal visits and advancing relationships. • Develop and execute an effective and sustainable volunteer program to encourage annual giving, including Class Ambassadors, Parent Annual Fund Volunteers, Faculty/Staff Volunteers, etc. • Supervise data entry, report writing and generation, gift processing, and all additional aspects of the school’s constituent relations software. • Develop Austin Prep Fund donor recognition efforts and stewardship opportunities and assist in the production of the Annual Report and other publications. • Work with the Director of Alumni Engagement to support class reunion giving. • Maintain high visibility in the school community, attending a variety of student, parent, admissions, and alumni events. • Pursue professional development opportunities to implement best practices in alignment with the school’s pace of change and growth.

• 5-7 years of successful direct fundraising experience, preferably in an academic setting. • Independent and strategic thinker capable of understanding the full scope of an annual fund campaign while seeing individual tasks through completion. • Bachelor’s degree required. • Must be able to manage several tasks simultaneously, possessing an ability to prioritize multiple tasks and manage deadlines effectively, while working with a high level of integrity and extraordinary work ethic. • Ability to work creatively to match donor interests with the school’s priorities and build meaningful relationships with individuals for purposes of cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of gifts to the school.

About Austin Preparatory School

Austin Prep is an independent co-ed Catholic school in the Augustinian Austin Prep enrolls approximately 800 students in grades 6-12 and employs 75 faculty.

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