The Tufts Annual Giving Team (TAG) is responsible for the strategy, design, and implementation of a comprehensive annual fundraising program, with an emphasis on leadership annual giving, class-based reunion fundraising, and volunteer-driven fundraising to drive up donor counts.

TAG is responsible for the Tufts Fund for Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. The fund is critical to the successful operation of the arts, sciences and engineering programs at Tufts University as it currently raises more than $8 million dollars annually, with nearly 80% of that toward unrestricted budget-relieving purposes. Tufts Fund gifts support financial aid, faculty salaries, curriculum development, and student activities. Additionally, the Tufts Fund staff has a significant impact in strengthening the alumni giving participation rate, one of the statistics used by U.S. News & World Report when determining college rankings. The Tufts Fund is a critical entry point for young alumni participation, setting the stage for long term philanthropy at Tufts, and is a resource for identifying future major gift prospects.

TAG is also responsible for providing strategic direction for annual giving university-wide, including the seven additional school-based annual fund programs being run independently across the division. Together, these programs raise an additional $10M towards annual fund achievement at Tufts. To support these efforts, TAG provides some central services including strategic direction and support, execution of university-wide direct mail and Telefund efforts, management of university-wide giving initiatives, developing analyses and reporting tools, providing industry best-practices and benchmarking support and ensuring that as much of the programmatic work as possible is uniform across the University.

TAG is also developing a robust university-wide annual fund volunteer leadership structure for the upcoming campaign, to reinforce Tufts’ philosophy that annual fund gifts of any size are vital to the success of the next campaign.

The Associate Director, Volunteer Management, reports to the Senior Director of Annual Giving. S/he is responsible for setting and implementing the strategic direction of the Tufts Fund Volunteer Program, through which a corps of more than 300 alumni and student volunteers (gift officers) conduct peer to peer solicitations to raise unrestricted funds and increase participation rates for the Tufts Fund.

Qualifications – Basic Requirements:

• 5+ yrs of professional experience with a minimum of 3 years in volunteer management, fundraising/development or alumni relations.
• BA/BS
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite software applications, including Word and Excel and an aptitude for and commitment to learning new systems and applications, specifically the Tufts Volunteer Network.
• Must have experience managing a constituent-based program.
• Must be service-oriented, personable, articulate, well organized, and able to handle multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent interpersonal skills are essential.
• Must have demonstrated experience in being able to influence without authority.

EOE