Assistant Director, Foundation

St. Charles Community College is located just west of St. Louis, in the heart of growing St. Charles County. At St. Charles Community College, we have a passion for student success. We serve a growing diverse student population, and we are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff who will help prepare our students for a global society. Qualified candidates will have demonstrated success in serving diverse student populations.

We are seeking a full-time Assistant Director, Foundation who will lead and support the departments full range of development and marketing initiatives for the college's Foundation. The position will strategically identify, plan, organize, implement, and administer various methods in promoting the college and community partnerships to successfully generate revenue and cultivate community relationships. Manage and increase the Foundation's donor portfolio through the implementation, and administration of a sound development plan that includes all aspects of the giving cycle. Formulates and develops plans, goals, and objectives, including staffing, and technology, assuring alignment of plans with the mission of St. Charles Community College.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned

• Responsible for overseeing the delivery of an assigned program to a targeted clientele, in a specific time frame and measured by pre-defined department goals.
• Assesses needs, evaluates departmental requests with the ability to prioritize and assign tasks. Develops and implements activities based on needs assessment.
• Manages and provides leadership and direction to staff and ensures the staff is compliant in following policies and procedures of the college.
• Supports the initiatives of the college's major gift/fund raising efforts during the cultivation and solicitation of major gifts. Responsible for performing database management in Raiser's Edge to ensure foundation records are accurate and timely.
• Research and identify grant opportunities and directs the executive of the Alumni program.
• Manages internal and external relationships with diverse populations, the SCC community network, ensuring quality service and support.
• Must have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and be able to converse with team members, stakeholders, and college leadership. Lead and ensure the delivery of project tasks with technical and functional partners based on identified roles and responsibilities during project execution.
• Assists with department budgeting, program review, and assessment processes. Must have excellent time management, planning and organizational skills and be able to adapt to changing work environments, work priorities and organizational needs to meet objective. May serve as team leader in absence of Director/Executive Director.
• Strong communication skills to effectively interact with individuals from a variety of multi-cultural backgrounds. Provides excellent customer service.
• Position requires regular and predictable attendance.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Business, Communications, Non-profit, or related field and Three years' experience in department function or,
• Associates degree in Business, Communications, Non-profit, or related field plus five years' experience in department function or equivalent education and experience.

St. Charles Community College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.