The Rutgers University Foundation seeks an entrepreneurial, collaboration-focused, and strategically-minded professional to serve as the Director of Institutional Giving for the New Brunswick Campus. The Director of Institutional Giving will provide service and leadership to Rutgers’ Flagship, Big10, AAU campus and act as a strategic partner in developing, managing, and sustaining the campus’ relationship with key external corporate and foundation partners.

Reporting to the Vice Chancellor for Development for Rutgers - New Brunswick, the Director will also serve as a member of a team of seasoned professionals charged with leading Rutgers University’s Corporate and Foundation Engagement program. With strong leadership buy-in, the role will collaborate across the university and join a team focused on comprehensive corporate partnership including but not limited to philanthropy, student engagement, sponsorship, licensing, and grants. In this campus-wide role, the Director will be able to leverage resources and support from colleagues across both RUF and Rutgers New Brunswick to design and implement a highly effective corporate and foundation giving program with a significant emphasis on promoting areas of excellence and cross-disciplinary initiatives to the high-capacity corporations and foundations in their portfolio.

Essential Functions

• Work collaboratively with the leadership of the New Brunswick campus and Rutgers University Foundation and colleagues throughout the organization to create systems, processes and practices that include working at scale as well as facilitating bespoke engagement experiences.
• Serve as a leader within the New Brunswick Development team and across the Rutgers University Foundation to ensure strong collaborations that consider the opportunities to collaborate with Engagement Communications as well as Central Fundraising units.
• Collaborate with university partners to address unit-specific needs and considerations that speak to the unique experiences of alumni and donors that are supporting these divisions.
• Lead projects assigned by the Vice Chancellor for Development
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills and Abilities

Consistency

• Meet and exceed individual fundraising metrics
• Successfully execute, devise and implement increasingly complex donor pipeline strategy
• Demonstrate an ability to identify new prospects for assigned unit(s)

Contributions

• Sustain a strong working relationship with vice chancellors, vice provosts, deans, chairs, directors and faculty members of assigned unit(s)
• Demonstrate an ability to create and manage increasingly more complex donor pipeline strategies and work collaboratively with other unit fundraising leaders

Competencies

• Demonstrate an ability to operate autonomously
• Demonstrate an ability to manage projects, sub-unit(s) or a team
• Demonstrate an ability to identify new prospects for assigned unit(s)
• Demonstrate an ability to manage multi-unit proposals

Leadership

• Demonstrate ability to successfully manage the philanthropic process, engaging stakeholders across units and communicating progress along the way.
• Represent the campus with corporate and foundation partners, and effectively communicate the values and priorities of the campus.

Education/ Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and 5 years of progressively responsible experience in alumni engagement, advancement, non-profit or higher education.

Mental Demands

Clarity of focus while juggling complex projects or deadlines.

Workplace Arrangements

This is classified as an office-centric hybrid position. Colleagues working under an office-centric hybrid arrangement have a primary workstation in a university or foundation location and are in the office between one and five days a week. The frequency with which they are present in the office depends on their role and function and the interdependency of other functions.

Working Conditions  

This position requires little physical effort. Will work evenings, weekends, or odd hours to meet resource-raising commitments. Typical working conditions with an absence of disagreeable elements. This position requires some early mornings and late evenings to accommodate meetings, travel, events, and external constituent’s schedules. 

Benefits

• Office-centric hybrid work schedule
• Comprehensive medical
• Comprehensive no cost dental, and no cost vision insurance for employee and dependents
• 403(b) plan with matching employer contribution
• Accrual of three weeks of annual vacation time, in addition to five wellness days each year
• Nine holidays, as well as four flex days
• Parental leave
• Significant tuition reductions
• Professional development is highly valued at the Rutgers University Foundation, where employees are encouraged to look across the organization to develop new skills and abilities for professional career progression
• $40 monthly cell phone reimbursement 

Rutgers University Foundation

Founded in 1973, Rutgers University Foundation is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization whose sole mission is to advance Rutgers’ pursuit of excellence in education, research, and public service. By providing the bridge between donors and the schools and programs, faculty, and students that make up the university, RUF inspires philanthropic support, fosters connections with alumni and friends, and empowers Rutgers to better the world. In our most recent fiscal year, we successfully engaged over 230,000 alumni and received gifts totaling $233 million, exceeding our 2022 performance by more than $21 million.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is Foundation policy to provide equal employment opportunity to all its employees and applicants for employment regardless of their race, creed, color, national origin, age, ancestry, nationality, marital or domestic partnership or civil union status, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability status, liability for military service, protected veteran status, affectional or sexual orientation, atypical cellular or blood trait, genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing), or any other category protected by law. As an institution, we value diversity of background and opinion, and prohibit discrimination or harassment based on any legally protected class in the areas of hiring, recruitment, promotion, transfer, demotion, training, compensation, pay, fringe benefits, layoff, termination or any other terms and conditions of employment. 

COVID-19  

Under Presidential Executive Order 14042, Executive Order on Ensuring Adequate COVID Safety Protocols for Federal Contractors, employees must be fully vaccinated prior to beginning employment with the Rutgers University Foundation. The Foundation will consider requests for exemptions from the executive order’s vaccination requirement for medical or religious reasons. However, if you are not granted an exemption for a medical or religious reason, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.