Assistant Director, Annual Giving​/Digital Campaigns

Position Summary

Advance your career as the Assistant Director, Annual Giving/Digital Campaigns with UCLA’s Central Annual Giving team. Join us and bring your creativity, organizational and persuasive communication skills to a role where you can learn about and expand your fundraising skills while driving our digital campaigns and Annual Giving initiatives. As an Assistant Director, you will coordinate and support all aspects of direct mail solicitations and email appeals, creating timely and inspiring campaign and donor communications campus-wide as well as digital philanthropy efforts including crowdfunding initiatives, Giving Days, and other digital campaigns requiring project management, platform coordination, and email production.

Crowdfunding and our other digital campaigns provide critical fundraising support for innovative projects by asking many donors to give whatever they can to raise a specified amount (typically referred to as a goal) during a specific time period (typically referred to as a campaign) via digital platforms (e.g., email, social media, websites) to ultimately fund a project or initiative. You will be part of building a better, brighter future with Bruins leading the way through innovation and transformation.

Fundraising makes this possible and our teams are dedicated and motivated to connecting donors with opportunities to strengthen support and move forward UCLA’s priorities. You will also work in partnership with our team and others on a variety of projects such as those supporting stewardship efforts as well as special writing assignments, donor relations projects and creating unique print and digital materials.

UCLA is an exceptional place to work, with limitless opportunities and meaningful work. We also help you achieve financial wellbeing with a pension and other retirement savings plans.

Salary & Compensation

• UCLA provides a full pay range. Actual salary offers consider factors, including budget, prior experience, skills, knowledge, abilities, education, licensure and certifications, and other business considerations. Salary offers at the top of the range are not common. Visit UC Benefit package to discover benefits that start on day one, and UC Total Compensation Estimator to calculate the total compensation value with benefits.

• Minimum of two years demonstrated experience working in a fundraising environment and/or prior professional experience in a related field such as sales, marketing or business development. (Required)
• Experience with a Blackbaud CRM system or equivalent database and the use of databases to generate reports. (Preferred)
• Prior experience in developing, managing and leveraging digital media and marketing strategies to drive digital solicitations and crowdfunding outcomes in a fundraising and/or similar constituent driven environment. (Preferred)
• Working knowledge of the principles and practices of fundraising at a research university or institution of equivalent complexity. (Required)
• Strong knowledge of/familiarity with digital media landscape, web design and crowdfunding platforms with ability to creatively translate UCLA’s fundraising goals and to provide comprehensive social media management across established and emerging platforms. (Required)
• Excellent written communication skills to compose, proofread and edit a variety of correspondence and reports for correct grammar, punctuation, spelling and syntax; ability to write creative and persuasive solicitations, acknowledgements, reports and other fundraising-related pieces. (Required)
• Strong communication skills to collect and convey information via email, over the phone and in-person with accuracy, diplomacy and tact; ability to persuasively express the mission of the University and the fundraising goals of the campus in relation to annual giving. (Required)
• Detail-oriented with ability to take initiative, work independently and accept responsibility; adept at setting priorities and managing workflow to fulfill objectives and meet goals according to deadlines in a dynamic and ever-changing environment. (Required)
• Ability to work effectively as part of a team with…