Vassar College Office of Residential Life

Director

• Reporting to the Senior Director of Leadership Gifts, the Assistant/Associate Director of Leadership Gifts has primary responsibility for qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding a portfolio of current and potential donors.
• This role will be assigned specific regional territories and will work independently and with other members of Advancement, campus partners, faculty, and high-level volunteers to create and implement plans that result in the acquisition and retention of major gifts from individual donors.
• Manage a portfolio of approximately 175 prospects and donors, driving institutional growth through face-to-face cultivation and the solicitation of major and deferred gifts.
• Travel 7-10 days each month on behalf of the College to meet with current and prospective donors.
• Drive annual support for the Vassar Fund by securing consistent gifts ranging from $1,500 to $50,000.
• Partner with faculty and Advancement colleagues to cultivate a robust donor pipeline, aligning philanthropic support with institutional priorities and strategic campaign goals.
• Ensure meticulous record-keeping and personalized follow-up for all donor interactions in accordance with office protocols.
• Develop and maintain a thorough knowledge of Vassar College, its history, people, programs, initiatives, and current priorities.
• Attend and support engagement events and donor relations activities.

Assistant/Associate Director – Leadership Gifts

Solutions Engineer

• Implement and optimize robust integrations between core enterprise systems and third-party applications using enterprise data connection tools.
• Develop serverless APIs and manage event-driven data flows to ensure real-time synchronization across the institutional ecosystem.
• Engineer automated workflows using intelligent processing engines to streamline cross-departmental tasks and approval routings.
• Create and maintain no-code/low-code forms to improve data collection accuracy and operational efficiency.
• Design, build, and test comprehensive data insight reports and dashboards to support strategic decision-making.
• Unify disparate data sources within the institutional data lake to provide a single source of truth for campus constituents.
• Develop custom interface cards and widgets using modern SDKs to modernize business processes.
• Ensure all developed interfaces and dashboards are SaaS-compliant and deliver a personalized, role-based user experience.
• Partner with departmental constituents to gather, document, and translate business requirements into technical application specifications.

Assistant/Associate Director – Leadership Gifts

Solutions Developer, Enterprise Systems