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Job Title: Development (Assistant Senior Manager / Senior Manager), NUS College
Posting Start Date: 24/03/2025
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You will play an important role in the Development Office managing a portfolio of major gift prospects, leading the annual giving campaigns, overseeing events management, leading in development communications, donor relations and special projects. You will shape a Development Programme, develop exciting fundraising campaigns and programmes, as well as build internal policies and procedures for the College. You will also mentor and lead a junior member of the Development team.
Duties & Responsibilities
Major Giving

• Plan and lead in the major giving programme of the College.
• Identify, research, cultivate and steward a portfolio of individual and organisational prospects/donors.
• Develop a donor solicitation strategy for major gift prospects and draft major gift proposal documents.
• Manage all aspects of the donor stewardship programme inclusive of stewardship reports as well as donor-recipient meetings.
• Track and assess major gift fundraising metrics.

Annual Giving

• Establish and manage all aspects of the Faculty & Staff Giving Campaign at the College, including:

• Developing the strategy, design and implementation of the inaugural Faculty & Staff Giving Programme.
• Identifying readiness of the campaign.
• Managing the online giving platform and stewardship of all annual fund gifts.
• Identifying fundraising champions to lead in shaping the programme and peer to peer asks.
• Managing a detailed schedule of the campaign.
• Maintaining reports to track success of the campaign. Track all data as it relates to annual giving.

• Establish and manage all aspects of the Alumni Giving Campaign at the College, including:

• Developing the strategy, design and implementation of the inaugural Alumni Giving Programme in collaboration with the alumni affairs team.
• Identifying readiness of the campaign to both groups (USP and Yale-NUS alums).
• Managing the online giving platform and stewardship of all annual fund gifts.
• Identifying fundraising champions to lead in shaping the programme and peer to peer asks.
• Managing a detailed schedule of the campaign.
• Maintaining reports to track success of the campaign.

• Establish and manage all aspects of the Commencement Class Giving Campaign at the College, including:

• Developing the strategy, design and implementation of the Commencement Giving Programme, in collaboration with the NUS Development Office's wider Commencement Class Giving campaign.
• Managing the online giving platform and stewardship of all annual fund gifts.
• Identifying fundraising champions to lead in shaping the programme and peer to peer asks.
• Managing a detailed schedule of the campaign.
• Maintaining reports to track success of the campaign.

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Event Management

• Plan, curate and coordinate all aspects of virtual and physical donor events - inclusive of budgeting, project scheduling, programme development, venue sourcing, preparing administrative briefs and ensuring a smooth programme for internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage all aspects of the guest list, inclusive of the seating plan.
• Prepare post-event analysis reports.

Development Communications

• Develop and oversee the communication strategy of the Development Office.
• Develop stories and content to engage community, donors and stakeholders. This includes social media, videos, collateral and website management.
• Design and craft proposals that align with the funding priorities of the College.
• Collaborate with the Development and the Communications team to compile an annual Giving Stories booklet.
• Manage the NUS College's Giving email.

Donor Relations

• Create stewardship plans for all major and principal gift donors.
• Manage the recognition programme at the College.
• Craft and create stewardship reports for the College.
• Coordinate all prospect and donor meetings, as well as related events.

Special Projects

• As required, manage special projects for the Department/College.

Outreach Matters

• Provide support on other Outreach matters, from time to time.
• Assist in outreach events such as open house, acceptance campaign, commencement, alumni reunion, etc.
• As required, work with other administrative teams on cross- functional and shared duties.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in any discipline.
• Candidates with 10 years of working experience in a senior administrative role would be an added advantage.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Flexible to be available and facilitate events and activities held after office-hours in the evenings and on weekends (as required) for Development and Outreach roles.
• Cross-cultural communication skills.
• Prior experience in fundraising, donor engagement or communications will be an added advantage.
• Knowledge in Salesforce, MailChimp, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Teams and Video and Design Editing programmes will be an added advantage.