114495 VICE PRESIDENT, EXTERNAL AFFAIRS - NEW YORK, NY
Job Information
ID :
#10068151
# of Positions :
1
Experience Required :
7 years
Duration :
Full Time Regular
Shift :
First Shift (Day)
Hours per week :
40
Job Description
VICE PRESIDENT, EXTERNAL AFFAIRS
Asia Society, a prestigious, global, educational and cultural non-profit with eleven centers across the United States and Asia seeks a Vice President for External Affairs to provide leadership, management, and coordination for the Asia Society’s broad-based fundraising efforts, including unrestricted funds, restricted program funds, capital funding, and especially to build the institution’s endowment. The Vice President oversees 22 External Affairs staff responsible for approximately $30 million annually in gifts from individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies. This responsibility includes major gifts and planned giving, grants and sponsorships, membership, corporate membership, event fundraising, and revenue-generating conferences. The position also oversees other departmental functions that support the institution’s fundraising efforts, including donor research, donor database, and cultivation activities, such as special donor cultivation trips. The Vice President formulates and executes all fundraising efforts to achieve the institution’s fundraising goals, and works in close coordination with the Society’s ten additional Centers in Asia and the United States. The Vice President plays a key individual role in identifying, cultivating and personally soliciting major donors for both capital and annual gifts.
While focusing on the institution’s overall fundraising priorities, the Vice President also ensures the ongoing engagement of key constituencies in the successful solicitation of multi-faceted revenue streams, including cultivation of Trustees, International Council members, and members of a variety of standing and ad hoc committees and councils.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Develop fundraising priorities and create long-term strategies for meeting funding goals from donor prospects in Asia and the U.S.
•Work closely with the President and Board to identify, cultivate and solicit major donors in the U.S. and Asia, and also to develop long-term institutional relationships with potential donors.
•Provide strong leadership for the Society’s overall resource generation efforts; instill confidence in and excitement about fundraising among all staff and constituent groups; ensure fundraising coordination with and between all program divisions and regional centers/offices.
•Work with all segments of the institution to understand their fundraising needs and help them to strategize and execute fundraising efforts to meet goals.
•Manage the External Affairs department and ensure that all staff efforts are focused on meeting fundraising goals and working interactively for the common good; hire staff when necessary; supervise and motivate the staff; manage departmental budgets.
•Maintain fundraising schedules, objectives, databases and tracking systems; ensure that plans are implemented, goals achieved, timely reports generated and information shared; ensure that fundraising is done in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
•Manage and serve as principle staff liaison with the Board Development Committee and the Nominating & Governance Committee; recruit, train and interact with volunteers, including trustees and other fundraising volunteers.
•Oversee unrestricted giving programs, including Trustee Annual Fund (and fundraising from International Council members and Honorary Life Trustees) and patron membership groups.
•Manage special events group, which oversees major annual revenue producing events – the Annual Dinner, Asia Week event, the Diversity Leadership Forum and a series of small dinners with high-profile guests – and other events associated with the various friends groups and cultivation events for donors and prospects.
•Supervise a business development team responsible for creating and executing high quality, revenue-producing international business conferences.
•Identify, cultivate and solicit major gift prospects.
•Assess and expand prospect pool; manage donor research.
•Work with the appropriate directors to create strategies to expand membership, increase planned giving, and build on the Society’s successful special events program.
•Collaborate with the Communications department to encourage synergy between development and related communications functions, including appropriate crediting of donors, the creation of relevant publications and printed materials for members and prospects, and promotion of conferences and fundraising events.
•Work with Finance Department to reconcile records, forecast expenses.
•Assist Investment Committee and the Finance & Budget Committee of Board, as needed, to forecast fundraising results, advise on status of major fundraising activities.
•Coordinate fundraising activities across the Society, including annual, program and capital fundraising as well as activities with all eleven Asia Society Centers in the U.S. and Asia; assist Center staff with fundraising planning and execution of those plans.
•Supervise fundraising from foundations and corporations for program funds and other support.
•Oversee stewardship for all gifts, including gift acknowledgements, pledge reminders, and stewardship reports to foundations, corporations and individual donors.
•Devise a strategy to raise significant new funds in Asia.
•Develop and supervise donor cultivation trips sponsored by the Asia Society.
•Help build membership in International Council.
•Other duties as assigned by the President.
REQUIREMENTS:
•A frontline fundraiser with strong leadership skills and entrepreneurial instincts to work with an active Board of Trustees and a dedicated professional staff.
•At least twelve years of proven experience developing and implementing a significant capital campaign and/or a successful fundraising effort in an institution or organization that has a reputation for quality and excellence.
•Measurable results in organizing and implementing such activities as: annual funds, planned giving, major donor program, corporate and foundation giving, event fundraising, donor segmentation and research.
•A successful track record of personally identifying, cultivating and soliciting major individual and institutional donors.
•A facility and experience with intercultural exchange with a specific interest in Asia; sensitive to the distinctiveness and diversity of Asian cultures and the importance of the relationship between Asia and the United States.
•A working knowledge and understanding of the New York, national and international funding communities, and the ability to communicate the Society’s mission and interests to a very broad audience.
•A track record as an effective communicator; skilled in writing and speaking; adept at crafting proposals, donor correspondence and other kinds of materials.
•Computer literacy and an understanding of Raiser’s Edge or related database program.
•A willingness to travel regularly in the United States and Asia, and to work evenings and weekends, as necessary.
•Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred.
For benefits information go to: www.asiasociety.org/jobs.
Email cover letter and resume indicating salary expectations to:
HR@asiasoc.org
Indicate position reference code and job title in the subject line.
Resumes without cover letters will not be accepted. EOE M/F.
Asia Society, a prestigious, global, educational and cultural non-profit with eleven centers across the United States and Asia seeks a Vice President for External Affairs to provide leadership, management, and coordination for the Asia Society’s broad-based fundraising efforts, including unrestricted funds, restricted program funds, capital funding, and especially to build the institution’s endowment. The Vice President oversees 22 External Affairs staff responsible for approximately $30 million annually in gifts from individuals, corporations, foundations and government agencies. This responsibility includes major gifts and planned giving, grants and sponsorships, membership, corporate membership, event fundraising, and revenue-generating conferences. The position also oversees other departmental functions that support the institution’s fundraising efforts, including donor research, donor database, and cultivation activities, such as special donor cultivation trips. The Vice President formulates and executes all fundraising efforts to achieve the institution’s fundraising goals, and works in close coordination with the Society’s ten additional Centers in Asia and the United States. The Vice President plays a key individual role in identifying, cultivating and personally soliciting major donors for both capital and annual gifts.
While focusing on the institution’s overall fundraising priorities, the Vice President also ensures the ongoing engagement of key constituencies in the successful solicitation of multi-faceted revenue streams, including cultivation of Trustees, International Council members, and members of a variety of standing and ad hoc committees and councils.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
•Develop fundraising priorities and create long-term strategies for meeting funding goals from donor prospects in Asia and the U.S.
•Work closely with the President and Board to identify, cultivate and solicit major donors in the U.S. and Asia, and also to develop long-term institutional relationships with potential donors.
•Provide strong leadership for the Society’s overall resource generation efforts; instill confidence in and excitement about fundraising among all staff and constituent groups; ensure fundraising coordination with and between all program divisions and regional centers/offices.
•Work with all segments of the institution to understand their fundraising needs and help them to strategize and execute fundraising efforts to meet goals.
•Manage the External Affairs department and ensure that all staff efforts are focused on meeting fundraising goals and working interactively for the common good; hire staff when necessary; supervise and motivate the staff; manage departmental budgets.
•Maintain fundraising schedules, objectives, databases and tracking systems; ensure that plans are implemented, goals achieved, timely reports generated and information shared; ensure that fundraising is done in the most efficient and cost-effective way.
•Manage and serve as principle staff liaison with the Board Development Committee and the Nominating & Governance Committee; recruit, train and interact with volunteers, including trustees and other fundraising volunteers.
•Oversee unrestricted giving programs, including Trustee Annual Fund (and fundraising from International Council members and Honorary Life Trustees) and patron membership groups.
•Manage special events group, which oversees major annual revenue producing events – the Annual Dinner, Asia Week event, the Diversity Leadership Forum and a series of small dinners with high-profile guests – and other events associated with the various friends groups and cultivation events for donors and prospects.
•Supervise a business development team responsible for creating and executing high quality, revenue-producing international business conferences.
•Identify, cultivate and solicit major gift prospects.
•Assess and expand prospect pool; manage donor research.
•Work with the appropriate directors to create strategies to expand membership, increase planned giving, and build on the Society’s successful special events program.
•Collaborate with the Communications department to encourage synergy between development and related communications functions, including appropriate crediting of donors, the creation of relevant publications and printed materials for members and prospects, and promotion of conferences and fundraising events.
•Work with Finance Department to reconcile records, forecast expenses.
•Assist Investment Committee and the Finance & Budget Committee of Board, as needed, to forecast fundraising results, advise on status of major fundraising activities.
•Coordinate fundraising activities across the Society, including annual, program and capital fundraising as well as activities with all eleven Asia Society Centers in the U.S. and Asia; assist Center staff with fundraising planning and execution of those plans.
•Supervise fundraising from foundations and corporations for program funds and other support.
•Oversee stewardship for all gifts, including gift acknowledgements, pledge reminders, and stewardship reports to foundations, corporations and individual donors.
•Devise a strategy to raise significant new funds in Asia.
•Develop and supervise donor cultivation trips sponsored by the Asia Society.
•Help build membership in International Council.
•Other duties as assigned by the President.
REQUIREMENTS:
•A frontline fundraiser with strong leadership skills and entrepreneurial instincts to work with an active Board of Trustees and a dedicated professional staff.
•At least twelve years of proven experience developing and implementing a significant capital campaign and/or a successful fundraising effort in an institution or organization that has a reputation for quality and excellence.
•Measurable results in organizing and implementing such activities as: annual funds, planned giving, major donor program, corporate and foundation giving, event fundraising, donor segmentation and research.
•A successful track record of personally identifying, cultivating and soliciting major individual and institutional donors.
•A facility and experience with intercultural exchange with a specific interest in Asia; sensitive to the distinctiveness and diversity of Asian cultures and the importance of the relationship between Asia and the United States.
•A working knowledge and understanding of the New York, national and international funding communities, and the ability to communicate the Society’s mission and interests to a very broad audience.
•A track record as an effective communicator; skilled in writing and speaking; adept at crafting proposals, donor correspondence and other kinds of materials.
•Computer literacy and an understanding of Raiser’s Edge or related database program.
•A willingness to travel regularly in the United States and Asia, and to work evenings and weekends, as necessary.
•Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred.
For benefits information go to: www.asiasociety.org/jobs.
Email cover letter and resume indicating salary expectations to:
HR@asiasoc.org
Indicate position reference code and job title in the subject line.
Resumes without cover letters will not be accepted. EOE M/F.
Company Information
Name :
Description :
The Asia Society is a prestigious, global, educational and cultural non-profit with eleven centers across the United States and Asia.
Type :
Direct Employer
Address :
725 Park Ave South
New York, NY 10021
New York, NY 10021
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