Annual Giving Manager

Annual Giving Manager

Job Description

Le Jardin Academy, located in Kailua, HI is Hawai‘i’s only International Baccalaureate World

School offering students a world-class IB education from pre-kindergarten to grade 12.

Founded in 1961, Le Jardin Academy unites 910 students and nearly 200 faculty and staff and

their families around its mission to cultivate a community of learners who embrace hana pono

to positively impact the world. Its graduates attend the best universities across the world and

are equipped to serve in whatever community they reside. As a community, we value individual

pathways, excellence, innovation, peace, and relationships.

Primary Responsibility

The Annual Giving Manager is responsible for managing and executing annual giving, donor

stewardship, alumni engagement, and constituent communication programs that support

philanthropic participation and strengthen connections to Le Jardin Academy. Working

collaboratively with the Director of Development and Advancement team, this role coordinates

fundraising appeals, engagement initiatives, communications, events, and stewardship

activities for alumni, grandparents, parents, donors, and friends of the school. Through

relationship-building, project management, and thoughtful execution, the Annual Giving

Manager helps foster a culture of philanthropy and meaningful community engagement in

support of the school's mission. This position reports directly to the Director of Development

and serves as an integral member of the Advancement Team.

Essential Duties:

Annual Giving

● Develop and implement strategies to cultivate, solicit, and steward annual fund donors

across key constituent groups.

● Plan and execute integrated, multi-channel fundraising campaigns utilizing digital,

print, social media, crowdfunding, phone outreach, and emerging technologies.

● Build and maintain meaningful relationships with current and prospective donors

through personalized outreach, engagement, and solicitation.

● Monitor, evaluate, and refine annual giving strategies to increase donor participation,

retention, and philanthropic support.

● Generate donor lists, campaign reports, and audience segmentation strategies to

support fundraising initiatives using RE NXT.

● Identify, research, and qualify new and existing prospects among alumni, grandparents,

former faculty and staff, past trustees, alumni families, and friends of the school.

● Support the development of a robust donor pipeline by facilitating meaningful

engagement opportunities and tracking constituent interests and interactions.

Donor Stewardship and Philanthropic Culture

● Coordinates donor stewardship activities to ensure that all donors are acknowledged

and celebrated for their generosity and understand the impact of their gift(s)

● Develop and execute constituent communication strategies, including the writing,

production, and distribution of monthly alumni newsletters and quarterly

communications for grandparents and alumni parents, ensuring alignment with the

school's key messages, engagement goals, and advancement priorities.

● Generate creative messaging, mailing lists, and reports for annual giving, stewardship

activities, and donor communications

● Write and personalize donor gift acknowledgments and stewardship activities

● Coordinate cultivation and stewardship events and special projects as assigned,

including alumni gatherings, grandparent engagements, and donor cultivation events.

● Maintain proficiency in Raiser’s Edge NXT and adhere to departmental data

management procedures and best practices.

Alumni Relations

● Lead and grow Bulldogs Forever, Le Jardin Academy's alumni engagement program, by

expanding alumni contact information, increasing participation, and strengthening

alumni connections to the school.

● Support graduating seniors and their families in transitioning to active alumni

engagement.

● Develop and execute alumni engagement initiatives, communications, and programs

that encourage lifelong involvement with Le Jardin Academy.

● Plan and coordinate alumni events, reunions, regional gatherings, campus visits, and

networking opportunities.

● Establish annual goals, benchmarks, and key performance indicators for alumni

engagement, participation, volunteerism, and giving.

Track, analyze, and report on engagement, participation, fundraising results, and other key

performance metrics on a regular basis.

Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

● Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional

experience.

● Three or more years of experience in fundraising, advancement, alumni relations,

nonprofit development, communications, marketing, or a related field.

● Demonstrated success building relationships and engaging constituents

● Understanding of and commitment to the role of philanthropy in independent schools

and nonprofit organizations.

● Excellent written, verbal, interpersonal, and customer service communication skills.

● Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage

multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and maintain attention to detail in a fast-paced

environment.

● Experience planning and coordinating events, communications, or constituent

engagement initiatives.

● Familiarity with Google Workspace, Microsoft Office Suite, and web-based

communication platforms

● Experience working with donor databases, constituent relationship management (CRM)

systems, or comparable data management platforms preferred.

● Demonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, solve problems

proactively, maintain confidentiality, and collaborate effectively as part of a team.

● Positive attitude, strong initiative, professionalism, and a commitment to building

meaningful relationships within the school community.

● Willingness to work occasional evenings and weekends and travel as needed.

Physical requirements

The physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an

employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable

accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential

functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:

● Frequently required to stand, walk, use hands to manipulate, handle, grip and feel

objects, utensils, tools or controls

● Frequently required to reach with hands and arms

● Occasionally required to lift, push, pull and/or carry items and objects up to 5o pounds,

with a minimum of 25 pounds lifted and carried

● Occasionally required to lift, push, pull and/or carry items and objects up to 6o pounds

● Specific vision ability required by this job is 20/20 vision (corrected or uncorrected)

● Specific hearing ability required by this job is the ability to pass a hearing test (corrected

or uncorrected)

Details

Department: Advancement Status: Full-time

FLSA Status: Exempt

Work year: Twelve month

Work hours: Must be able to work flexible hours, with standard hours being 7:30 am - 4:30

pm, including some Saturdays, holidays and evenings

Salary Range

$55,000 to $75,000