Prospect Management Consultant
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Prospect Management ConsultantJob Description
As a member of the Prospect Research & Strategy team, the Prospect Management Consultant combines deep curiosity with data analysis, project management, and flexible communication skills to support frontline fundraisers and senior leaders in Development. The ideal candidate will provide research, analysis, and data-driven insights to achieve historic levels of philanthropy for Notre Dame and her students.
Why You Will Love This Role:
You’re curious, and find connections and relationships among people, geography, trends, and other data that may affect a benefactor’s inclination and ability to give. You also love to collaborate: working closely with your team and with front-line fundraisers to share timely, accurate information and advice. Your curiosity and research will lead to creative solutions to interesting challenges. If you can’t decide which you love best: research & data or people & collaborating – then this might be a perfect role for you!
Our hybrid scheduling with the team and support for your personal and professional priorities makes this role a perfect match for you!
Great Prospect Management Consultants come with experience from many fields.
Shared characteristics include:
- Collaborator and team player: Highly accountable, willing to take ownership, and eager to be a champion for the shared success of our team and those we serve
- Analytical communicator: Can dive into data, analyze it, and communicate knowledge to others to drive actions and decisions
- Strategic thinker: Can see multiple sides of a business to understand how they fit together & impact each other
- Process-minded: Always seeking to streamline and improve processes
- Curious: Asks a lot of questions, wonders how things are related, and enjoys digging into the details to learn more
- Innovator: Makes new, challenging, and actionable connections with information gleaned from research, data, conversations, events, and the world around them; can think on their feet
- Confident: Unafraid to ask questions, identify new and better ways of doing things, engage with senior leaders, and share ideas that may seem unorthodox at first glance but are the product of innovation & expertise
- Balanced: Able to dive into and track details as well as pull back to see the bigger picture; knows when to do each
What You Do:
The consultant serves as lead portfolio strategist for a group of fundraisers and senior leaders in the Development office, and works closely with them to ensure they are effectively moving prospects consisting of alumni, parents, and friends through the fundraising cycle. Additionally, the consultant partners with Senior Regional Directors to provide analysis and recommendations based on regional, industry and philanthropic trends. The consultant also assists on annual processes that impact the entire department.
In this role, you will
- Evaluate prospective benefactors
- Create portfolios of prospects
- Conduct portfolio and proposal pipeline health analyses
- Brainstorm strategy on prospects and gift proposals
- Interpret data & information to recommend actionable opportunities (DIKW)
- Maintain expertise on relevant events (e.g. wealth, property, employment), initiatives, and economic trends affecting partner regions
- Share best practices among Prospect Management Consultants and fundraisers
- Provide standardization, consistency, & framework to internal partners
- Offer advice based on analytical and empirical insights
- Measure & provide recommendations for improvement on fundraiser effectiveness
- Oversee prospect data
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Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years of professional work experience
- Demonstrated project management skills: analytical skills, high attention to detail and follow up, and excellent organizational skills
- Experience using enterprise information systems, CRMs, data warehouse, data visualization, etc. (ie: Salesforce, Business Objects, Tableau, SAP, etc)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Experience forming partnerships with a variety of constituencies and working as a trusted team member
- Disposition to creatively solve problems
- Proven track record of ownership, translating ideas into action
- Proactive approach to problem solving from both the detail level and overall view
- Ability to motivate and influence others, including peers
- Must be eligible to work in the United States
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience in a fundraising or nonprofit environment
Department
Development-Prospect Management (21075)Department Website
https://giving.nd.eduFamily / Sub-Family
External Relations / Prospect AnalysisCareer Stream/Level
EIC 2 ProfessionalDepartment Hiring Pay Range
Commensurate with experiencePay ID
Semi-MonthlyFLSA Status
S1 - FT ExemptJob Category
Administrator/ProfessionalJob Type
Full-timeSchedule: Hours/Week
40Schedule: # of months
12Job Posting Date (Campus)
09/23/2024Job Posting Date (Public)
09/23/2024Job Closing Date
10/07/2024Posting Type
Open To All ApplicantsPosting Number
S251413Quick Link for Internal Postings
https://jobs.nd.edu/postings/35907*Please mention you saw this ad on HispanicsInHigherEducation.*
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