Senior Director of Annual Giving
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Job overview
The Senior Director of Annual Giving leads a comprehensive annual giving program across communication channels, using data and performance metrics to shape fundraising strategies and campaigns. The role builds donor pipelines, supports retention and stewardship, develops campus partnerships, and coordinates campaign planning and creative work. It also manages annual giving budgets and supports growth in the President's Associates giving program.
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Full job description
Execute a comprehensive Annual Giving Program that includes but is not limited to: direct mail, email, texting, social media, crowdfunding, video, and any other available communication channels.Collaborate with the University Development team to support pipeline building and identify major gift prospects for referral and cultivation across campusManage a reporting system that provides regular analysis of annual giving effectiveness on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basisEnsure timely, personalized donor acknowledgment and annual giving stewardship processesAnalyze data and develop insights. Utilize data to develop and deploy fundraising strategies to optimize fundraising results. Use data to drive segmentations of fundraising campaigns and engagement from a multitude of audiencesUtilize and closely monitor a comprehensive set of metrics to achieve annual giving fundraising goals that include total giving, alumni donor participation, donor retention, and fundraising by appeal, segment, and channelUtilize and update (as needed) dashboards to track annual giving performance and drive donor engagement and solicitation strategyDevelop strong and strategic partnerships across campus and within key constituencies to effectively identify and support annual giving opportunitiesCoordinate with the Executive Director of Marketing and Communication and their team to develop a comprehensive annual giving campaign and solicitation calendar that will interface with an overall communication strategy and drive all annual giving fundraising campaignsAdvance and grow the donor pipeline. Design and execute strategies to maximize donor retention and move entry-level annual giving donors from first gift to leadership giving levelsUtilize and maintain an annual giving budget to accomplish strategic initiativesSupport ongoing and new strategies to drive growth in the President's Associates giving programTranslate fundraising goals and donor insights into creative briefs that guide design, provide clear and constructive feedback on creative conceptsFoster collaboration with teammates working on production and design by setting realistic timelines and aligning strategy with design capacityOther duties as assigned.
How this job compares
Set against the 739 open Fundraising jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$77–100K/yr324 salary ranges
- US median$20–23/hr102 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 80 open Fundraising jobs in Texas and 739 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN (this employer)41 open
- American Heart Association9 open
- Texas A&M University System5 open
- Experience
- Fundraising postings that state a minimum ask for 4 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 5 years (496 postings).
- Education
- 270 of the 739 open Fundraising jobs (37%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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