Head, Advancement
Category

Education

Location

Lagos

Summary

The candidate will lead the school's advancement programmes while developing and maintaining an active and productive relationship with donors and stakeholders. Head, Advancement must be pro-active, highly motivated, and detail-oriented with the ability to advance the School’s efforts to fund-raise and friend-raise. Must be proficient at developing and refining systems and procedures for the smooth functioning of operations and for growing knowledge of Advancement Services.

  • Minimum Qualification: MBA / MSc
  • Experience Level: Management level
  • Experience Length: 10 years

Description

  • Oversee the design, implementation and management of all fundraising activities including endowment, capital campaigns, special projects and other school-related solicitations.
  • Manage all strategies and activities for donor cultivation, solicitation, and relations
  • Manage development budget.
  • Represent the school at meetings and events with key organizations. 
  • Create yearly budgets for the Advancement Department and Manage Advancement Budgets.
  • Create Donation policies and procedures. 
  • Oversee the day-to-day operations of the Advancement Role in prospect management, donor recognition, donor stewardship and other related activities including development research, database management and donor history
  • Work as part of an integrated management team to establish overall goals and strategies for increasing private support to the School
  • Work with donors on behalf of the School on the acceptance of gifts and oversee the procedures and documentation for gift receipting.  
  • Communicate donor wishes and requirements to the School
  • Oversee the maintenance of a comprehensive and accurate fundraising database to include all past and prospective donors.  
  • Oversee all donor information entered and retrieved; oversee accuracy and efficiency of reports created
  • Develop donor and prospect activity reports
  • Provide oversight of pledge and acknowledgement processing activities;
  • Contribute to the effective team management of all customer relation problems, issues and opportunities.
  • Oversee advancement fundraising activities related to major gifts, planned gifts and corporate and foundation philanthropy and participate in the cultivation of gift prospects when appropriate
  • Responsible for endowments (scholarships and others) and report award status to donors. 
  • Contribute to the web development team and assist with the development of necessary web pages for donations.  

Qualification

  • Meeting of financial targets for projects
  • Number of donors willing to partner with the school 
  • Number of encounters between the school and donors/prospects

Method of Application
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Date Posted

27 Mar, 2022

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