Job Requisition Number: 27506. UC Berkeley's School of Optometry is internationally recognized for its excellence in patient care as well as its leadership in vision research. The School offers several clinics that provide comprehensive eye care to members of the Berkeley campus and the local community. More than 80,000 patients visit each year. Learn more at http://www.caleyecare.org/
Annual and Unrestricted Funds Fundraising Management: •Designs and delivers unrestricted fundraising goals, priorities, plans and programs. •Plans, schedules, and implements volume fundraising projects and activities, including specific fundraising programs such as crowdfunding initiatives and The Big Give. •Serves as the primary liaison for all corporate and foundation prospects and partners. •Tracks and measures AF performance metrics and ensures that predetermined fundraising goals are met. •Provides analysis and information of complex results or activities, and makes recommendations to Dean’s office for program changes or additions. •Leads and staffs the Dean’s Leadership Society, creating opportunities for engagement and impact (moved that bullet up) •Determines pipeline expectations, moves and management. •Develops and deliver's leadership proposals and programs. •Participates in short and long-range strategic planning and prepares the Annual Fund annual budget. •Assists in detailed planning of fund development and annual solicitation programs and uses the CADS database to support these strategies and plans. •Directs members of the DAR team to facilitate AF giving campaigns. •Leads and staffs the Dean’s Leadership Society, creating opportunities for engagement and impact •Serves as the primary liaison to UDAR’s DRM program; working on direct mail, call center campaigns and written appeals •Ensure that predetermined fundraising goals are met and raise at least $1M annually.•Advanced knowledge of all aspects of fundraising, donor relations and public relations. •Advanced knowledge of all aspects of the campus, including relevant issues for both the campus and higher education. •Advanced knowledge of applicable laws, rules, regulations, institutional policies, et cetera. •Advanced written, oral and interpersonal communication skills, including political acumen to establish and maintain good working relationships throughout the organization and with outside constituencies. •Advanced skill in making persuasive and compelling presentations of campus goals/objectives and securing gifts. •Advanced skill to meet predetermined goals and objectives through effective program/project planning, organization, execution and evaluation. •Advanced analytical, critical thinking, problem recognition/avoidance/resolution skills. •Skill to meet or exceed fundraising goals and objectives.
Education/Training: •Bachelors degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. •Five or more years of experience in fundraising programs and management.
The University of California was chartered in 1868 and its flagship campus - envisioned as a "City of Learning" - was established at Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay. Today the world's premier public university and a wellspring of innovation, UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre campus with a sylvan 178-acre central core. From this home its academic community makes key contributions to the economic and social well-being of the Bay Area, California, and the nation.
