Greater Chicago Midwest HERC

Job Description:

• Grows the number of qualified prospects who support the Law School by meeting virtually and in person with alumni, soliciting leadership annual gifts and pledges and developing major gift leads. Helps establish relationships with prospective donors at all levels of giving.

• Liaises with other annual giving staff to support and develop annual giving strategies.

• Supports efforts to grow and increase Deanâ™s Circle membership, including planning strategy and signature programs.

• Manages all aspects of the Law Firm Challenge, a peer-to-peer fundraising program that encourages consistent annual giving by alumni at over sixty law firms through a friendly competition between firms.

• Conceptualizes and executes new ways to cultivate alumni at law firms, including planning events.

• Recruits, trains, and manages graduates who volunteer as Law Firm Challenge ambassadors at their law firms, developing training materials and other resources to assist with the volunteersâ™ solicitation efforts.

• Creates and maintains a positive volunteer experience by offering exceptional support.

• Prepares direct mail appeals, email appeals, and other materials and correspondence for volunteers and Law Firm Challenge participants.

• Collaborates with colleagues both in the Office of External Affairs and from other departments at the Law School to design and implement a cohesive, long-term strategy for firm engagement and cultivation.

• Advises colleagues in the Law School Dean of Students and Career Services offices on the Chicago Law Partners program, which facilitates law firm sponsorship of student activities and events at the Law School.

• Supports other areas of annual giving and firm engagement, routinely meeting donor fundraising and participation targets.

• Contributes to the development of plans to solicit prospective donors and meet campaign goals. This includes speaking to new prospects persuasively about the case for annual giving support.

• Contributes to the planning and implementation of programs to identify, visit, and solicit alumni, parents, and other constituencies within an assigned geographical region for gifts to meet fundraising goal. Does this with a moderate level of guidance and direction.

• Performs other related work as needed.

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