Position Purpose:  Responsible for overall communication and relationship development with alumni and potential donors

Main Responsibilities:

• Identify new avenues of fundraising;
• Maximizing PR opportunities in relation to fundraising activities;
• Enhancing communication and relationship development with donors;
• Engaging alumni networks for fundraising;
• Management and promotion of scholarship programmers for donors;
• Development of promotional material to solicit scholarships, endowment funds, chair funds, etc
• Structuring, planning and budgeting for fundraising unit;
• Ensuring database of prospective donors engage them, cultivate the relation, solicit support and stewardship;
• Managing the grant/scholarship application process and ensuring that reporting is tracked and meets donor expectations;
• Preparation of annual income budget;
• Monitoring and reporting financial progress during the year;
• Planning and organizing networking events;
• Keeping staff in other functions within the organization informed of fundraising activities;
• Production of fundraising promotional materials/newsletters as required;
• Enhancing communication and relationship development with alumni;
• Relationship building with students to make them connected as alumni;
• Planning and organizing networking events, responsible for resource mobilization for fundraising;
• Making alumni networks self-sustaining;
• Structuring, planning and budgeting for fundraising unit;
• Development of promotional material to solicit scholarships, endowment funds, chair funds, etc;
• Compiling database of prospective donors engage them, cultivate the relation, solicit support and stewardship;
• Preparation of annual income budget;
• Recording, monitoring and reporting financial progress during the year;
• Managing the grant/scholarship application process and ensuring that reporting is tracked and meets donor’s expectations;
• Processing direct mail responses, recording donations, acknowledging donations, answering queries and complaints;
• Management and promotion of scholarship programmers for donors;
• Identifying potential opportunities/new avenues to promote giving to LUMS;
• Keeping staff in other functions within the organization informed of fundraising activities;
• Production of fundraising promotional materials/newsletters as required.
• Developing and managing website from fundraising viewpoint and ensure its potential as a fundraising tool is maximized

  Skills: 

• Good communication, presentation and writing skills.
• Well- versed in MS Office, CRM & ERP
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management
• Managerial
• Networking and communication skills
• Ability to deliver high quality work in a challenging environment

Behavior:

• Team-oriented
• Result-oriented
• Accountable