Associate Director-Development Stewardship

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Georgia Tech Office of Development (DEV)

Led by the Vice President for the Office of Development, Jim Hall (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-hall-913270131/), our fundraising team at Georgia Tech currently consists of more than 100 professionals who are focused on securing transformative philanthropy (major and principal gifts) to support the strategic priorities of the Institute and its colleges, schools, and programs, including Georgia Tech Athletics. For fiscal year 2024 (closed 6/30/2024), the Development teams efforts resulted in over $243 million in new gifts and commitments in support of Transforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech which will secure more than $2 billion in new commitments and gifts from individuals, foundations, corporations, and other organizations. One of the most significant priorities within Transforming Tomorrow is ensuring access of the brightest undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to Georgia Tech, regardless of their socioeconomic backgrounds. To learn more about Transforming Tomorrow and other campaign priorities, visit https://transformingtomorrow.gatech.edu/.

Within the campaign, Athletics has become the first unit on campus to surpass its initial fundraising target of $300M to support facilities, current operations, and endowment. Following this success, Athletics priorities and goals will be expanded and increased during the final years of the campaign in order to fulfill the vision of Georgia Tech Athletics, ensure the athletic and academic success of our student-athletes both on and off the fields and courts of competition, and provide a sustainable financial base for Athletics within the ever-changing marketplace of collegiate sports.

The position plays a key role within the Alexander-Tharpe Fund (Georgia Tech Athletics Development) and interacts regularly with the Director of Athletics and members of the Georgia Tech Athletics Association executive team. The incumbent will plan and organize events and programs designed to recognize and steward donors for their contributions, while also developing and maintaining productive relationships with donors and prospective donors. Additionally, the role will support other stewardship initiatives and special projects as assigned. This position will interact on a regular basis with Institute and Office of Development executives, development officers and staff, faculty, coaches, staff representatives, volunteers, donors, alumni, and fans.

Job duty 1: Creating, developing, and implementing a comprehensive stewardship program for athletics, including donor events, impact reports, and fulfillment of all stated benefits.
Job duty 2: Work with Development staff to determine the strategy and timing of donor reports. Manage and analyze relevant information, and prepare reports to donors. Coordinate with Development staff to ensure they have information necessary to compile impact reports for funds in their respective units. Track impact report activity in Blackbaud CRM
Job duty 3: Steward Georgia Tech's major donors with emphasis on donors of endowed scholarship funds. Create and implement stewardship programming, impact reporting and related activities to identify and involve donor contacts for these funds
Job duty 4: Manage the process of adding new members to the Golden Jackets, the Alexander-Tharpe Funds giving society for donors at the highest levels of lifetime giving. Responsibilities include compiling and analyzing gift data to identify new members, organizing membership review sessions, and maintaining accurate and up-to-date information in Blackbaud CRM.
Job duty 5: Facilitate relationships between potential and current donors and volunteers with the Institute's administration, faculty, deans, staff and trustees
Job duty 6: Serve as principal liaison from the Office of Development to the Georgia Tech Foundation for stewardship data in Blackbaud CRM
Job duty 7: Serve as the main contact for all naming opportunities, working closely with Development staff to ensure all requirements are met and to facilitate the approval and recognition process.
Job duty 8: Research and respond to ad-hoc inquiries
Job duty 9: Assist in planning and other preparations for stewardship related meetings and gatherings
Job duty 10: Perform other duties as assigned

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Other Required Qualifications
Occasional overnight travel required for off campus events; flexibility in on-site daily service delivery hours (due to client shift schedules, project requirements).

Required Experience
Four to five years of job related experience

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree

Salary Range: $66,562- $90,525

SKILLS
This job requires working knowledge of the donor stewardship process including donor relations, communications, marketing, project management, organizing, and interpersonal skill. Use of office related computer applications is required.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The Institute is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and Institute policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Equal opportunity and decisions based on merit are fundamental values of the University System of Georgia ("USG") and Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of an individual's race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will not be required to drive.
This role is considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.

Background Successful candidate must be able to pass a Position of Trust + Education background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening