A Graduate School of Education, Health & Psychology

Posting Summary:
The Manager, Fundraising & Alumni Relations will provide comprehensive operational and strategic coordination within the Office of Institutional Advancement (IA). This position will report jointly to the Assistant Vice President, Leadership Giving and the Senior Executive Director, Annual Giving and Alumni Relations, supporting donor strategy across the giving cycle. The Manager serves as a key liaison between Leadership Giving and cross-functional teams, ensuring clear communication and coordinated execution of donor activities.

Job Summary/Basic Function:
The Manager, Fundraising & Alumni Relations plays an essential coordinating role within the Office of Institutional Advancement (IA). This position will provide both programmatic and administrative support equally across two divisions; Leadership Giving and Annual Giving & Alumni Relations.

Within the division of Leadership Giving, the Manager will provide comprehensive strategic and administrative support to the Assistant Vice President and frontline fundraising programs supporting donor strategy across the giving cycle. Responsibilities include analyzing data and pulling lists, building presentations and briefings, drafting correspondence, and assisting the Assistant Vice President with calendars, meetings, and travel as needed. The Manager serves as a key liaison between Leadership Giving and cross-functional teams, ensuring clear communication and coordinated execution of donor activities.

Within the division of Annual Giving & Alumni Relations, the Manager will play an active role in advancing programs that foster alumni engagement, strengthen donor participation and support the College’s annual giving goals. This includes project management support of solicitation efforts, assisting in alumni communications initiatives, supporting the execution and logistics of alumni events, and helping to manage volunteer programs and affinity-based outreach efforts. The role will also provide high-level administrative support to the Senior Executive Director.

In both areas, the Manager will help coordinate projects, manage data, track progress toward goals, and ensure smooth administrative operations for both team leaders. This position offers a diverse, high-visibility opportunity for an advancement professional eager to grow across multiple fundraising and engagement functions.

This position may require occasional work outside of normal college business hours, including evenings, weekends, or during college closures associated with peak giving periods or special events.

CHARACTERISTIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Prepare presentation materials, agendas, and briefings for external meetings and events, and internal strategy meetings.
• Draft correspondence and communications that support relationship building with donors, volunteers, and event attendees; including general and targeted outreach.
• Liaise effectively and professionally with external constituencies, including donors, volunteers, and event attendees.
• Partner with Advancement Services and Communications to manage data pulls and performance tracking for solicitation and engagement efforts.
• Work across teams and individually to compile and analyze data to support fundraising and engagement strategies.
• Coordinate with relevant teams across IA to support processes that move donor relationships and the giving cycle, including proposal development, annual giving appeals, stewardship reports, budgets, event logistics and attendees, and data management.
• Maintain effective project management trackers to ensure timelines stay on track.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationships with internal and external colleagues.
• Manage fundraising and alumni relations data input and review in Raiser’s Edge, TC's database of record, with divisions across IA.
• Provide administrative assistance with calendars, meetings, travel, and other functions, as needed.
• Undertake special projects and additional responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or the equivalent of education and experience required.
• 3-5 years of experience in a development or fundraising team, non-profit organization, marketing, or sales team.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google suite required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to respond flexibility to changes in short-term work priorities.
• Experience with CRM databases, such as Raisers Edge.

Salary Range:

$75,000 - $80,000

Work Modality:

Hybrid

Competitive Compensation and Benefits 

The salary range reflects the College’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the compensation for the position at the time of the job posting.  Salary decisions are dependent on several factors including but not limited to market and organizational considerations, experience, and qualifications of a selected candidate as well as internal and external equity.

Our benefits contribute significantly to the total compensation package that includes medical, dental, vision, and supplemental insurance plans; flexible and hybrid work schedules; tuition remission; life insurance; short and long-term disability insurance; an exceptional employer retirement matching program; health savings accounts (HSA), flexible spending accounts (FSA), Public Service Loan Forgiveness eligibility, and a robust Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

Hybrid/Remote

Teachers College maintains a hybrid work environment, which provides employees with flexible work arrangements while ensuring we preserve the important aspects of our unique in-person college-campus culture. Depending on role and business needs, colleagues will either work onsite or in a hybrid model (a combination of in-office and virtual days). Employees are expected to live within a 150-mile radius of the College.