The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is the state’s largest institution of higher education and consists of 13 colleges and over 40 locations across the state, educating approximately 120,000 students annually. In addition, we train more than 4,000 Coloradans each year through various other programs. Our mission is to provide an accessible, responsive learning environment where our students can achieve their educational, professional and personal goals in an atmosphere that embraces academic excellence, diversity and innovation. We are an organization that encourages individuals to bring their whole selves to work.

We are hiring a Director of Major Gifts and Donor Engagement to join the Colorado Community College System Foundation. In this position you’ll develop and carry a portfolio of prospective philanthropic donors to raise major gifts for CCCS’s strategic objectives. This position designs and implements a strategic development approach to determine potential donors’ financial ability, capacity, and interest in making major gifts. You’ll conduct one-on-one visits with donors for the purpose of qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship. CCCS offers generous time off, excellent benefits, and flexible work environments. If you’re looking for an exciting job opportunity where you can use your fundraising skills to further Colorado students’ higher education goals, this position may be for you!

NOTE: This position is funded for approximately 27 months with the potential for an extension, depending on budget availability.

Duties Include:

• Identifying and conducting personal visits with key individual and corporate prospects to determine capacity and interest in making a major gift to CCCS.
• Cultivating potential gift prospects utilizing relationship-based fundraising strategies including one-on-one meetings, special group events, and other engagement strategies.
• Setting up, facilitating, and devising strategies for face-to-face meetings with donors. You’ll identify donor philanthropic interests, share giving opportunities, and close gifts.
• Working closely with constituents to advance donor relationships, driving new/renewed giving, coordinating gift arrangements and documentation, and overseeing stewardship of assigned donors.
• Carrying a portfolio of viable prospects. To do this, you’ll identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward prospects via one-on-one meetings and other interactions to secure support for the Colorado Community College System.
• Supporting CCCS’s programmatic priorities by soliciting major gifts, either via one-on-one contacts, in concert with a key volunteer, or with involvement of CCCS’s leadership.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, non-profit management, marketing, social sciences or related field.
• Three years of professional level fundraising experience in a higher education institution or non-profit setting or equivalent.

To read the full job description and to apply, visit https://www.schooljobs.com/careers/cccs/systemoffice/jobs/3535890/director-of-major-gifts-donor-engagement.