Senior Director, Specialists

🔍 Office of Development, Stanford, California, United States

📁: Development

📅   : Apr 05, 2017 Post Date

📅   : 74562 Requisition #

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Education & Experience:

Bachelor's degree and ten years of relevant experience and management experience preferably in an educational institution or nonprofit or a combination of education and relevant experience. Strongly prefer experience in major gift fundraising in addition to grateful patient fundraising and experience in complex, sophisticated fundraising environments.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

* Demonstrated fundraising experience, sensitivity, and diplomacy.
* Excellent judgment, interpersonal and communication skills. Ability to lead and motivate others and earn the respect of associates at all levels.
* Strategic skills to craft and help implement fundraising plans, including strategic planning, scoping, feasibility, campaign planning.
* Demonstrated managerial talent in guiding and optimizing major gifts efforts.
* Expertise in guiding faculty leaders and staffing senior leaders.
* Proven ability to meet fundraising goals with a strong track record in managing and balancing donor and faculty relationships.
* Ability to manage a large number of fundraising activities simultaneously.
* Strong and proven verbal and written communication skills. (Writing samples required)
* Demonstrated experience recruiting, evaluating, mentoring, growing, and inspiring staff members.
* Demonstrated experience engaging and motivating groups of diverse individuals, including strong volunteer management skills.

Certifications and Licenses:
None
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS*:

* Frequently perform desk-based computer tasks, sit, and use a telephone, stand/walk.
* Occasionally light/fine grasping, lift/carry/push/pull objects that weigh up to 10 pounds, writing by hand.
* - Consistent with its obligations under the law, the University will provide reasonable accommodation to any employee with a disability who requires accommodation to perform the essential functions of his or her job.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

* May require working flexible hours, including nights and weekends. Regular travel may be required.

WORK STANDARDS:

* Interpersonal Skills: Demonstrates the ability to work well with Stanford colleagues and clients and with external organizations.
* Promote Culture of Safety: Demonstrates commitment to personal responsibility and value for safety; communicates safety concerns; uses and promotes safe behaviors based on training and lessons learned.
* Subject to and expected to comply with all applicable University policies and procedures, including but not limited to the personnel policies and other policies found in the University's Administrative Guide, http://adminguide.stanford.edu.
Stanford is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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