Job Opportunities
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The Yale University Office of Development leads the university’s fundraising efforts. Yale benefits from an outstanding tradition of alumni giving, as well as significant and growing support from parents, friends, corporations, and foundations.
The Office of Development offers a dynamic and challenging work environment, with opportunities for meaningful accomplishment and true growth. We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, and rewards of a career at Yale University.
Administrative Assistant, Major Gifts
Reporting to the Office Manager, the Administrative Assistant, Major Gifts, provides a wide range of complex administrative support to frontline fundraisers and the Major Gifts unit within the Office of Development.
Assistant Director of Development, YCC
The Assistant Director of Development, Yale Cancer Center, will work closely with the Assistant Vice President, and will build and manage relationships with faculty, grateful patients, grateful patient families, alumni, non-alumni, and friends of the school and university with an ultimate goal to secure gifts in support of Yale Cancer Center/Smilow Cancer Hospital.
Assistant Director, Graduate and Professional Schools Annual Giving
The Yale Alumni Fund is seeking an Assistant Director to elevate fundraising and volunteer management efforts of Yale’s Graduate and Professional Schools annual giving programs. As Assistant Director, you will work as a frontline fundraiser on the annual giving team and partner with a substantial group of dedicated volunteers to identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward alumni to drive engagement and expand broad-based donor support in strategic ways to provide a sustainable source of revenue in support of Yale’s mission. In addition, the assistant director will support annual fund professional school colleagues and engage with graduate students to educate them about the Yale Alumni Fund.
Assistant/Associate Director, Digital Marketing and Audience Engagement
Reporting to the Sr. Associate Director, Online Engagement, the Assistant/Associate Director, Digital Marketing and Audience Engagement is a key member of the Marketing & Communications team and collaborates with partners throughout the Alumni Affairs & Development (AA&D) division to design and build email campaigns for signature events, alumni outreach, news, solicitations, and broad-base content marketing in support of the division’s donor and alumni engagement goals. This role is responsible for shaping the digital marketing strategy while fostering meaningful philanthropic connections with our alumni and donors.
Associate Director of Stewardship
Reporting to the Deputy Director of Stewardship, the Associate Director of Stewardship supports Yale’s comprehensive and strategic central stewardship program. The Associate Director works collaboratively with Marketing & Communications colleagues as well as individuals within the Office of Development, schools and units, and other departments, to ensure the accuracy and quality of all stewardship digital, print, video, and social media materials. They execute a variety of complex projects including, Yale College program funds, travel funds, graduate fellowships and professorship narratives.
Development Officer, Leadership Giving
Yale University seeks a driven and successful fundraiser to join the division of Alumni Affairs and Development. As a member of the Office of Development Leadership Giving team, the Leadership Giving Officer solicits prospective donors to Yale University for gifts of $10,000 to $250,000 and plays a central role collaborating with colleagues in Major Gifts, the Alumni Fund, Reunion Giving, and Planned Giving to ensure prospects are solicited comprehensively. The Leadership Giving Officer carries their own portfolio of approximately 250 individual prospects within specific geographic regions and functions in a discovery role. In addition to annual fundraising goals, this position will identify new major- and principal-gift prospects through superior qualification work.
Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship, YSM
The Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship creates, implements, manages and assesses a comprehensive donor relations plan to assist the Development and Alumni Affairs team in reaching its strategic fundraising goals. The scope of work includes donor relations, stewardship and related communications. The position requires excellent collaborative skills, requiring work with fundraising staff and partners across the University.
Diversity Officer, Leadership Giving
Yale Alumni Affairs and Development is committed to increasing the overall diversity of alumni who become donors and volunteers. As a part of this effort, we are seeking a successful fundraiser to join the Leadership Giving team as an Assistant/Associate Director to solicit prospective donors for gifts of $10,000 to $250,000 to Yale University and play a leading role in executing plans to diversify Yale’s overall donor base.
Events Manager, YSM Development
Plans and executes successful top-quality donor and prospect cultivation and recognition events that enhance the relationship between Yale School of Medicine and its prominent alumni, donors, and friends around the world.
Information Processor 3
As a member of the Gift and Records Services team, the Information Processor plays a crucial role in ensuring that the Office of Development is processing revenue and providing related services to our constituents in a timely and accurate manner. This position creates and updates a variety of information on Yale University’s fundraising and constituent relationship management (CRM) database for alumni, donors and other constituents.
Leadership Giving Officer
As a member of the Office of Development Leadership Giving team, the Leadership Giving Officer solicits prospective donors to Yale University for gifts of $10,000 to $250,000 and plays a central role in collaborating with colleagues in Major Gifts, the Alumni Fund, Reunion Giving, and Planned Giving to ensure prospects are solicited comprehensively. The Leadership Giving Officer carries their own portfolio of individual prospects within specific geographic regions and also functions in a discovery role.
Leadership Giving Officer
As a member of the Office of Development Leadership Giving team, the Leadership Giving Officer solicits prospective donors to Yale University for gifts of $10,000 to $250,000 and plays a central role in collaborating with colleagues in Major Gifts, the Alumni Fund, Reunion Giving, and Planned Giving to ensure prospects are solicited comprehensively. The Leadership Giving Officer carries their own portfolio of individual prospects within specific geographic regions and also functions in a discovery role.
Officer, Complex Gift Management
Reporting to the Senior Director of Complex Gift Management, the Complex Gift Management Officer works in the teams of Yale’s Office of Planned Giving and Office of Complex Gift Management to apply expertise in finance and financial advice to philanthropy.
Program Coordinator, Associate Vice President’s Office
The Program Coordinator is an important member of the AVP team and the direct reporting teams to the AVP and contributes to the overall success of multiple programs across the Office of Development. This position is an ideal opportunity for a flexible, independent, collaborative, and solutions-oriented individual who enjoys working in a fast-paced working environment.
Program Coordinator, Corporate and Foundation Relations
Under the direction of the Director for Strategic Initiatives and Proposal Development, the Program Coordinator will provide support for a broad range of Corporate and Foundation Relations fundraising activities in the Office of Development (ODV).
Proposal Development Manager
The Proposal Development Manager nurtures critical relationships internally with faculty and leadership, and externally with private foundations and corporations through the development of grant applications that are competitive for funding. Key partners include colleagues serving roles in academic leadership, research administration, corporate and foundation relations, as well as colleagues across schools and departments. Success in the role requires the ability to foster an environment that promotes collaboration and teamwork, and effective project management skills with the ability to organize, meet deadlines, and prioritize multiple tasks with competing needs.
Senior Administrative Assistant, Events Team
Reporting to the Associate Director, Events, the Senior Administrative Assistant (SAA) provides a high level of administrative and operational support in a fast-paced environment for the Office of Development’s Marketing & Communications Events team.
Senior Associate Director of Development, Major Gifts
Reporting to the Director of Development, the Sr. Associate Director of Development for Major Gifts will manage their own portfolio of major gift prospects and donors, and devise-- in close collaboration with the Associate Dean, Director of Development, and other School and University colleagues--strategic fundraising plans to secure gifts for high priority fundraising initiatives.