Associate Director, Annual Giving Data and Ops

Details

Open Date 06/29/2026

Requisition Number PRN45513B

Job Title Development Management

Working Title Associate Director, Annual Giving Data and Ops

Career Progression Track M00

Track Level M5 - Associate Director

FLSA Code Administrative

Patient Sensitive Job Code? No

Standard Hours per Week 40

Full Time or Part Time? Full Time

Shift Day

Work Schedule Summary

M-F 9-5

VP Area President

Department 00289 - Development

Location Campus

City Salt Lake City, UT

Type of Recruitment External Posting

Pay Rate Range $68,000-75,000

Close Date 08/31/2026

Priority Review Date (Note - Posting may close at any time)

Job Summary

Development Management

Reporting to the Director of Leadership Annual Giving and Pipeline Development, the Associate Director, Annual Giving Data and Ops will be a critical member of the Institutional Fundraising team. The Institutional Fundraising team reports supports large university-wide events and initiatives such as U Giving Day, Grad Season, scholarship fundraising, major gift pipeline development and more. This position will be tasked with enhancing and carrying out Institutional Fundraising data operations and programmatic efforts to increase the donor pipeline at the U.

The Associate Director will be charged with sustaining and improving current efforts and creating new strategies to influence the team’s overall success in the areas of leadership annual giving, donor retention and upgrades, parent data, and campaign data.

Reporting to the Director of Leadership Annual Giving and Pipeline Development, the Associate Director, Annual Giving Data and Ops will be a critical member of the Institutional Fundraising team. The Institutional Fundraising team reports supports large university-wide events and initiatives such as U Giving Day, Grad Season, scholarship fundraising, major gift pipeline development and more. This position will be tasked with enhancing and carrying out Institutional Fundraising data operations and programmatic efforts to increase the donor pipeline at the U.

The Associate Director will be charged with sustaining and improving current efforts and creating new strategies to influence the team’s overall success in the areas of leadership annual giving, donor retention and upgrades, parent data, and campaign data.

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Responsibilities

Associate Director, Development Management

Institutional Fundraising

• Manage and maintain constituent data to support annual giving, pipeline development, and engagement initiatives.

• Develop and manage campaign motivation codes to ensure accurate tracking, reporting, and attribution.

• Execute data quality assurance processes, including cleaning, validating, and loading constituent data for fundraising campaigns.

• Produce recurring reports and fulfill ongoing data requests to support leadership annual giving, campaigns and comms, and parent engagement programs.

• Design and maintain dashboards to track fundraising performance, marketing metrics, email performance, social media engagement, and annual program outcomes.

• Analyzing data and providing recommendations and strategics insights

Leadership Annual Giving and Pipeline Development

• Manage the data request process for Leadership Annual Giving and the Student Philanthropy and Engagement Center.

• Manage and track the fulfillment process, including reports and channels for fulfillment: email, text, calling, and mail.

• Serve as the liason between the Info Systems and Prospect Management teams to aid in building a pipeline development process.

• Build and maintain dashboards to help gift officers track progress.

Campaigns and Communications

• Prepare audience lists, segmentation, and data files for direct mail and email campaigns, including scholarship, end-of-calendar year, giving day, and year-end appeals.

• Draft campaign specifications and coordinate data preparation for multi-channel fundraising efforts.

• Generate anniversary, giving, and constituent reports using CRM and email marketing platforms.

• Analyze fundraising campaign performance by developing reports on giving days, crowdfunding initiatives, return on investment ( ROI ), and constituent engagement.

Minimum Qualifications

EQUIVALENCY STATEMENT : 1 year of higher education can be substituted for 1 year of directly related work experience (Example: bachelor’s degree = 4 years of directly related work experience).

Associate Director, Development Management: Requires a bachelor’s (or equivalency) 10 years or a master’s (or equivalency) 8 years of directly related work experience.

Preferences

• Experience working within higher education, fundraising, annual giving, or development

• Strong experience in Salesforce or similar CRM systems

• Experience in personnel management

• Experience in project management

• Confidence in critical and strategic thinking, with flexibility and strong people skills

• Fluency in Microsoft 365 applications, including Word, Excel, and Outlook

Type Benefited Staff

Special Instructions Summary

Additional Information

The University is a participating employer with Utah Retirement Systems (“URS”). Eligible new hires with prior URS service, may elect to enroll in URS if they make the election before they become eligible for retirement (usually the first day of work). Contact Human Resources at (801) 581-7447 for information. Individuals who previously retired and are receiving monthly retirement benefits from URS are subject to URS’ post-retirement rules and restrictions. Please contact Utah Retirement Systems at (801) 366-7770 or (800) 695-4877 or University Human Resource Management at (801) 581-7447 if you have questions regarding the post-retirement rules.

This position may require the successful completion of a criminal background check and/or drug screen.

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