Job Overview
- The Regional Director of the Central region builds relationships with alumni, parents, and friends within the central region of the United States who are most strategic to charitably funding Wheaton's mission.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Intentionally Relate: Advance strategic relationships through stages of the development cycle, which include discovery, engagement, proposal, closure, and stewardship. Create a relationship development plan for each individual in the portfolio that is updated and reported regularly.
- Thoughtfully Engage: Discern current and potential donors’ interest in Wheaton's mission so that it may be contextually expressed and givers may be meaningfully involved. This is accomplished through an agreed-upon number of individual meetings each year and is leveraged by campus and regional engagement events, gift-planning seminars, and service opportunities on advisory councils.
- Specifically Propose: Personally present and close an agreed-upon number of proposals for 5-, 6- and 7-figure gifts to the College. Proposals include both outright and planned gifts.
- Fill the Pipeline: Identify and become familiar with individuals in your territory who could become future major donors by engaging with them in the early stages of their giving relationship with the College.
- Consistently Learn: Demonstrate competence in discussing College funding priorities, campus developments, tools, and resources with constituents through a program of team-initiated and self-initiated learning.
- Collaborate: Contribute to the collegial team culture of the Development Team and the Advancement and Alumni Relations division of the College and relate well with members of the campus community and the larger external Wheaton family.
- Administrate: Manage workflow utilizing Wheaton College's various systems and procedures.
This job description is intended to represent key areas of responsibilities; specific assignments may vary from time to time, and other duties may be assigned.
Qualifications
- A call to advance God's kingdom through financial stewardship through Wheaton's mission.
- Ability to ask for and secure leadership-level gifts.
- A goal orientation in task accomplishment and a collaborative spirit with colleagues.
- Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Demonstrate a strong work ethic and a high level of integrity.
- Organizational and computer skills.
- 40%-50% travel required, including evening and weekend work.
- Bachelor’s degree is required, graduate degree is preferred.
Physical Requirements
The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear; frequently required to use repetitive hand motion, handle or feel, and to stand, walk, reach, bend or lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is regularly required to travel by both air and ground and attend meetings in a variety of indoor and outdoor settings.
FLSA Status - Exempt
As a Christ-centered community, Wheaton College faculty and staff must affirm the College’s Statement of Faith as expressing their own theological convictions and agree to live by the moral standards in Wheaton’s Community Covenant, modeling these commitments for the Christian formation of our students. Wheaton College faculty and staff also support the Christ-Centered Diversity Commitment which highlights our desire to treat all individuals as equal image-bearers of Jesus Christ through diversity, inclusion, justice and unity. Updated October 2020
