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Director of Development, Major Gifts - Anderson School of Management

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Los Angeles, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/14/2025

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Please note, this is a HYBRID role.

Position Summary

If you thrive in an environment where success is a collective victory, channeled by collaboration, mentorships, and generosity, join the UCLA Anderson School of Management as our Director of Development. As one of the most prestigious business schools in the world, UCLA Anderson is an innovator in management education and research with rigorous programs that offer a cooperative and congenial student culture, invaluable faculty guidance, and alumni that provide access to a thriving business community for scholastic and career advancement. Your major gift expertise, strategic abilities, and high ambitions will drive support for our world-class programs, accomplished faculty, and intellectually inquisitive students from all backgrounds. Collaboratively, you will plan and implement a strong major gift program that reflects Anderson’s priorities, develop and maintain a portfolio of major gifts prospects, and provide leadership, guidance, advice, and counsel on fundraising strategies and initiatives. This is a great opportunity to make a significant impact in a role where you will be challenged and empowered every day as you work alongside leaders among leaders. Philanthropy drives Anderson’s priorities and initiatives, and your passion for generating support will contribute to Anderson’s renowned reputation at the forefront of research, teaching, and service. UCLA is a great place to work, offering staff many professional growth opportunities and an excellent benefits package including a pension and other retirement savings plans so you can plan and build financial security for tomorrow as you advance your career today.

Explore more and learn how you too can be a leader among leaders in a rewarding career with UCLA.

Salary & Compensation

  • UCLA provides a full pay range. Actual salary offers consider factors, including budget, prior experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business considerations. Salary offers at the top of the range are not common. Visit UC Benefit package to discover benefits that start on day one, and UC Total Compensation Estimator to calculate the total compensation value with benefits.

Qualifications

  • Minimum of three years of fundraising experience and / or prior professional experience in a related field such as sales, marketing, or business development. (Required)
  • Experience in and strong documented record of gifts solicited and closed in the annual, special and / or major gifts range and / or solicitations of a similar nature, level, and complexity. (Required)
  • Experience conceptualizing, planning, and implementing special events. (Required)
  • Working knowledge of the principles and practices of fundraising in a university setting with a strong understanding of the goals, functions, and services of a research university or institution of equivalent complexity. (Required)
  • Proven skills in and / or ability to develop sophisticated strategies in planning, implementing, and administering major gift solicitations or other solicitations of a similar nature, level, and complexity. (Required)
  • Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to work harmoniously with volunteers, academic leaders, faculty, and other development staff toward the accomplishment of fundraising goals. (Required)
  • Demonstrated skill and / or ability to work with a dean and / or senior faculty or equivalent leadership of a similar level and type at a comparable organization. (Required)
  • Strong ability to recruit, orient, train, organize, motivate, and evaluate staff and volunteers who support development goals and programs. (Required)
  • Ability to establish priorities, manage multiple tasks and multi-phase projects simultaneously from inception to completion, and complete work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment with minimum supervision. (Required)
  • Ability to communicate persuasively, both orally and in writing, about UCLA’s fundraising goals and the specific priorities of the (school / unit); equal ability to listen perceptively and convey sensitivity and awareness. (Required)
  • Excellent written and communication skills, with the ability to produce business correspondence, solicitation materials, appropriate letters of acknowledgement, proposals to individuals, corporations, and foundations, and reports. (Required)
  • Impeccable integrity and discretion in dealing with donors, alumni, students, administrators, and colleagues as well as confidential information. (Required)
  • Knowledge of Microsoft Suite of applications is required, as is familiarity with other applications, programs, and databases as needed with a willingness to learn new technologies. (Required)
  • Education, Licenses, Certifications & Personal Affiliations

  • Bachelor's Degree (Preferred)
  • Special Conditions for Employment

  • Background Check : Continued employment is contingent upon the completion of a satisfactory background investigation.
  • Ability to work some weekends and / or evenings as needed. (Required)
  • Ability to travel as needed.
  • Schedule

    8 : 00 a.m. to 5 : 00 p.m.

    Union / Policy Covered

    99-Policy Covered

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