Associate Director of Annual Giving

UVA Advancement seeks candidates for an Assistant or Associate Director of Annual Giving, to join the development team supporting The Fralin Museum of Art, a division of UVA Arts. The Assistant/Associate Director will be responsible for building the museum’s annual giving and membership programs and increasing leadership annual giving activity and results.

Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, University Advancement honors your experiences, perspectives, and unique identity. Together, we strive to create and maintain working environments that are inclusive, equitable and welcoming so we can best achieve our mission of supporting our broadly diverse partners, schools, and networks of engaged alumni, parents, and friends of the University.

Key Responsibilities:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to build and manage a portfolio of current and prospective leadership level donors (up to $10K) to move them towards giving levels that achieve annual and long-range fundraising goals of the University. Other activities will include:

• Building a new donor pipeline for the museums and the upcoming campaign through ongoing donor discovery and prospecting.
• Developing a portfolio of potential individual, corporate, and foundation donors and prospects at the leadership annual giving level up to $10,000.
• Submitting grant proposals up to $10,000.
• Developing, cultivating, and stewarding relationships with existing donors, with the goal of moving them towards becoming major gift prospects.
• Creating and implementing cultivation structures that include prospect strategy development, face-to-face visits, continuous donor engagement, preparation of written materials, design and implementation of cultivation events, direct solicitation, and solicitation in tandem with volunteers and other staff.
• Developing and implementing strategic special events, fundraising-related communications, annual campaigns, and new donor affinity groups.
• Recruiting and providing high-level guidance to volunteers, advancement ambassadors, and student interns and volunteer board.
• Soliciting membership, annual fund, and reunion gifts.
• Occasionally traveling in- and out-of-state to meet with donors.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Three years of related work experience.
• A valid driver's license.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Detail-oriented with skills in communication and organization.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Knowledge of art and art history, with a general understanding of the art world.
• Knowledge of diversity, equity, access, and inclusion (DEAI) promotion.

The successful candidate must be able to travel frequently domestically and be available for occasional evening and weekend work.

UVA Advancement offers a flexible and hybrid workplace. All team members must have access to and maintain a secure home office environment with high-speed internet service and work collaboratively with others using a variety of technologies and tools. Depending on the type of position and work performed, or as deemed by the manager, some positions may be required to work intermittently in an office space located in Charlottesville, Virginia. This position is eligible for hybrid work, with frequent in-person work on UVA Grounds required.