Senior Director of Gift Planning
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Reporting to the Principal Director of Institutional Fundraising, the Senior Director of Gift Planning leads the strategy, growth, and execution of the University of Utah’s planned giving program. The role collaborates with major gift staff across the institution to support donor gifts through planned giving vehicles. It oversees up to three planned giving staff and develops systems, training, marketing, and best practices to support fundraisers.
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Reporting to the Principal Director of Institutional Fund raising, the Senior Director of Gift Planning is responsible for leading the strategy, growth, and execution of a comprehensive planned giving program for University Advancement at the University of Utah. This role is within the Institutional Fund raising (IFR) team and is highly collaborative, working with major gift staff across multiple constituent schools, colleges, and areas throughout the institution. The focus of this role is to encourage and support the acquisition of planned gifts from donors interested in utilizing and appropriately documenting planned gift vehicles for the benefit of the University of Utah. Responsibilities will include generating philanthropic gifts from donors through planned gift vehicles such as simple bequests in wills or living trusts, charitable trusts, charitable gift annuities, gifts utilizing retirement assets. etc.The Senior Director of Gift Planning will oversee a team of up to three planned giving staff, with one role currently vacant. The Senior Director will be tasked with both enhancing the work of the existing gift planning officers, and building out the systems, training, marketing, and best practices that support all frontline and major gift fundraisers to qualify, cultivate, solicit, and appropriately document planned gifts for the benefit of the U.Please note, the posted salary range reflects the compensation range within which we will make an offer. Offers are determined based on qualifications, skills, and experience. Placement at the top of the range is reserved for candidates who demonstrate exceptional qualifications and experience directly aligned with the role.
How this job compares
Set against the 762 open Fundraising jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$78–100K/yr328 salary ranges
- US median$18–20/hr115 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 18 open Fundraising jobs in Utah and 762 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- 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 (508 postings).
- Education
- 254 of the 762 open Fundraising jobs (33%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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