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Boston College Senior Principal Gifts Stewardship Reporting Officer in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
Boston College Introduction
Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.
Job Description
As we embark on Soaring Higher: the Campaign for Boston College, we invite you to join our community. Driven by our mission in ways that advance the university for years to come, priority areas for this $3B comprehensive campaign include Financial Aid, Academics, and Student Life.
Based on a fundamental Jesuit tenet of developing the whole person, University Advancement is large enough to benefit from many campus resources, yet small enough to be agile and creative in supporting all associates. With an average tenure of close to 10 years at Boston College, our 250-person centralized organizational structure offers a variety of roles across fundraising, alumni relations, operations, and communications and engagement. We invest in the professional growth of every staff member through individual and team-based programs. Likewise, we aim to attract the very best, seeking team members who are as ambitious and as committed to our team as we are. We value a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging while actively promoting team members who contribute to the success of University Advancement.
See below the current opportunity to begin (or return to!) your Boston College experience!
Reporting to the Senior Associate Director, Stewardship & Donor Engagement, the Senior Principal Gifts Stewardship Reporting Officer supports the fundraising, communications and donor relations efforts of an expanding and ambitious principal gifts program in an effort to cultivate, solicit and steward the University’s most generous donors and top philanthropic prospects. The individual in this position will focus on developing and implementing personalized and comprehensive and strategic impact, recognition, and engagement materials, as part of a culture of high performance, excellence and quality.
At the direction of the Senior Associate Director and the Director, Stewardship & Donor Engagement, this position will produce original impact report content or tailor existing content for donors that support the University at the principal giving level. The incumbent will collaborate on impact reports in partnership with the Stewardship & Donor Engagement reporting and recognition teams. They will also partner across advancement teams on the preparation of highly tailored content, developed in collaboration with frontline fundraisers and content specialists.
This position will participate in and add insight to meetings related to principal giving projects and must be able to work effectively and collaboratively across university advancement to maximize the effectiveness of each project, by capitalizing on the expertise of the various groups.
Full-Time Equivalent Hiring Range: $70,500 to $88,150; salary commensurate with relevant experience.
Requirements
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree; graduate degree preferred. The minimum requirements are five to seven years related work experience in communications, marketing, fundraising, stewardship or donor relations for a nonprofit or higher education institution. Preference for experience at an institution of higher education or a hospital.
The candidate should have strong project management skills and follow through necessary to develop plans and timelines, monitor priorities, and progress against goals. Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and perform multiple duties with minimal supervision, with a high degree of accuracy, keen attention to detail, and follow-through under tight deadlines. Capacity to work in a fast-paced environment involving high-level stakeholders; ability to multi-task and prioritize effectively.
Outstanding oral and written communication, strategic planning, budget development, competency and sound fluency with endowment fund financials, and experience driving revenue achievement in partnership with senior leaders is essential. Exceptional writing skills, comfort developing cogent content from scratch, and initiative to work independently in novel, diverse subject matter areas. Comfort developing financials and budgets (for development purposes).
The position requires excellent interpersonal skills to manage collaborator and client expectations; a demonstrated ability to compose strong, clearly written material, and the ability to translate often complex information with an understanding of writing for print, web, and e-mail. In addition, the successful candidate will have experience using word processing and spreadsheet software; Canva, InDesign or document design software.
Must be a highly motivated team player who is dedicated to the goals of advancing higher education and have an appreciation for Jesuit Catholic education and the goals and values of Boston College.
The office of University Advancement supports the mission of Boston College by promoting a culture of inclusion that values each individual. Our recruiting practices support that commitment to build diverse teams reflecting our community; students, alumni, parents and friends of Boston College.
Closing Statement
Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:
Tuition remission for Employees
Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements
Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
Low-Cost Life Insurance
Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans
Paid Holidays Annually
Generous Sick and Vacation Pay
Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook
Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.
Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .
Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .