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Carson City, NV 89703
Job Description
Administrative Faculty Contract. Non Tenure Track, Benefits Eligible. This position is being filled through an emergency appointment. Appointment to the role on a permanent basis is contingent upon meeting additional recruitment requirements
The Development Coordinator provides critical support for the Advancement team and the WNC Foundation, supporting fundraising efforts, coordinating and growing the foundation’s scholarship program, providing event management/execution, supporting Foundation board meetings and providing support for other donor development/engagement activities for Western Nevada College.
This position is responsible for important outreach efforts and works directly with donors (individuals, foundations, businesses), students, and WNC employees to encourage philanthropy on behalf of the college, scholarship awards, and volunteer opportunities. Positive interaction with donors often motivates additional donations; negative interactions can hinder or prevent donations. Courteous, friendly and caring personal contact with donors, students and the community at large is critical to growing donations to the college and, therefore, critical to success in this position.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Responsible for the management of the annual $850,000 scholarship program. This includes management of the donor scholarship awarding software, AwardSpring, coordination with the financial aid office and scholarship committee to identify and award student scholarships as well as accurately tracking all scholarship activity to ensure accuracy
Delivers effective campaigns to recruit student applicants including attendance at community and college functions to encourage student applications
Contributes to scholarship donor development and revenue cultivation
Serves as the main point of contact between the development office, scholarship recipients, community volunteers and campus resources/services
Leads coordination of annual scholarship publication, recruits publication sponsorships, contributes to content for scholarship publication
Accountable for meeting an annual funding goal by working with businesses, service organizations and private foundations to continue to grow the scholarship program
Supports fulfillment of grant awards including accountability reports relating to scholarships
Strongly contributes to all aspects of event planning and execution to ensure success. Leads various fundraising efforts such as procuring items for fundraising auctions, landing event sponsorships and driving event ticket sales
Contributes and often leads fundraising committees to deliver successful fundraising events and coordinates public relations, press releases, advertisements and social media and all mailings to promote events
Attends and contributes to all Foundation fundraising events
Fully understands and utilizes WNC Foundation’s unique management systems including DonorPerfect, Quickbooks and AwardSpring Scholarship awarding software in order to provide critical back-up support for the Assistant Development Director
Manage the Foundation digital donor wall and website pages, ensuring content is updated, relevant and inspiring to donors
Responsible for leading the employee giving program, reaching out to employees with opportunities to support WNC’s programs
Responsible for accurate record-keeping of the employee giving program within Donorperfect and Quickbooks as well as working closely with payroll to make sure payroll deductions are made accurately and on time
Represents WNC Foundation to develop new donor relationships, manages a list of current donors, uncovers gift opportunities and cultivates strong relationships with donors residing in WNC’s service area. This involves setting up donor meetings, attending events, reaching out to new, potential donors as well as developing and identifying unique gift opportunities appealing to each donor
Assists in the management of various WNC Foundation Board and committee meetings, taking minutes, posting formal agendas as well as understanding and adhering to Open Meeting Law
Other duties as assigned
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Demonstrates ability to plan, organize and prioritize workload and job assignments; seeks out efficiencies and demonstrates good use of available resources; responds to changes in workload prioritization and department needs
Works with community members, volunteers and college employees in a cooperative, courteous and helpful manner; follows through to assume responsibility for actions; responds quickly to changing circumstances and donor needs
Strong computer skills
Strong communication: verbal and written skills
Ability to work independently and provide support in all areas of Advancement Team
Travel between WNC Campuses
Familiarity with event management and fundraising campaigns
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree and two years of related professional experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be substituted for the Bachelor's degree (i.e., AA+3 or 4 yrs related professional experience).
Minimum Starting Salary Information:
This position is at a salary grade B. The minimum of the placement range is $54,634.72. The selected candidate will be placed at or above the minimum based on education and experience. WNC's placement range falls within the NSHE salary schedule: NSHE ADMINISTRATIVE SALARY SCHEDULE
Perks of Working at WNC
Beautiful campus located along numerous biking and walking trails.
Health insurance options including dental and vision - Health Insurance
Generous annual leave (A contract), sick leave (A & B contract), 13 paid holidays - Faculty Benefits
The WNC Fitness Center offers free Faculty and Staff membership WNC Fitness Center
ComPsych our Employee Assistance Program offers resources and assistance to Faculty and Staff
Discounted WNC Staff rates for our Child Development Center which has received Four Star Recognition from the Nevada Silver Star Quality Rating and Improvement System.
Voluntary benefits including accident, disability, legal services, and more – Voluntary Benefits
An administrative faculty senate represents full-time, administrative faculty
Free parking and plenty of it!
No state income tax!
Remarkable Retirement
Our retirement plan is beyond compare. Your 17.5% contribution is generously matched by WNC. With the faculty retirement plan, you are 100% vested your first day. Sit back and watch your retirement dollars grow! All permanent employees on an annual "A" or "B" contract who are employed at least 50% full-time are eligible to participate in the NSHE retirement program unless they are members of PERS of Nevada. WNC also matches retirement contributions for Nevada PERS members at the rate of 16.75% or 17.5% depending upon the member’s elected retirement plan, Employer Paid or Employee/Employer Paid.
Grants-in-aid for Faculty Employees
WNC is proud to provide a reduced-rate tuition benefit to faculty and qualified dependents. Faculty can take up to six credits per semester at a reduced rate. Dependents of faculty have unlimited credits, but in order to be eligible children must be unmarried and under the age of 24 and must receive at least 50% of their financial support from the employee and/or employee's spouse or domestic partner. More information can be found in the Board of Regents Handbook .
HR Department Information
WNC Human Resources is committed to providing quality services in a professional, caring and consistent manner, while partnering with the WNC community to foster a work environment that attracts and inspires excellence in people.
Human Resources supports all the academic and administrative departments and programs at WNC by providing personnel, benefits, payroll, affirmative action, and legal services. For more information, please visit the WNC Human Resources page .
Exempt
Full-Time Equivalent
Required Attachment(s)
Cover Letter
Resume
Contact information for three professional references
Applications must be submitted by 11:59 pm est. the day prior to the posting close date
Posting Close Date
Note to Applicant
Newly hired faculty must assure that their official transcript is sent by the degree granting institution(s) to Western Nevada College, Human Resources Office within 30 calendar days from the effective date of employment.
Academic degrees must have been awarded by regionally accredited institutions.
Employment is contingent on the completion of appropriate background verification, which may include criminal history, credit history, sex and violent offender registry, education verification, licensure, and employment history to be administered by the Western Nevada College Human Resources office.