UAA Leadership Annual Giving (LAG) Development Officer

University of Alaska Anchorage

Do you enjoy meeting people, hearing their stories, and connecting them with opportunities that matter to them? The University of Alaska Anchorage is seeking a Leadership Annual Giving fundraiser to help grow philanthropic support for Alaska's largest university.

In this role, you will manage a portfolio of donors and prospective donors, build relationships through personalized outreach and face-to-face meetings, and invite individuals to make meaningful annual gifts in support of UAA students, programs, and priorities. You will also play an important role in identifying and developing donors who may become future major gift prospects.

We are looking for someone who is personable, persistent, organized, and motivated by results. Fundraising experience is welcomed, but we also encourage candidates with backgrounds in sales, relationship management, business development, community engagement, or other fields where success depends on building relationships and confidently asking people to invest.

If you enjoy connecting with people and want to see the tangible impact of your work on students and communities throughout Alaska, this position offers an opportunity to build a career in professional fundraising while helping advance UAA's mission.

The University of Alaska Anchorage Development Office builds philanthropic partnerships that advance UAA's mission and create opportunities for students, faculty, programs, and communities across Alaska. The Development team works collaboratively with university leadership, colleges and schools, alumni, donors, corporations, foundations, and community partners to secure private support for UAA's highest priorities.

The Leadership Annual Giving (LAG) position plays an important role in developing UAA's pipeline of individual donors. The position focuses on donors and prospects with the potential to make meaningful annual gifts and helps move them from broad annual giving engagement toward increasingly significant philanthropic relationships with the university.

Through personalized outreach, donor visits, thoughtful cultivation, and direct solicitation, the LAG fundraiser manages a portfolio of donors and prospects, builds relationships around their interests, and asks for annual gifts in support of UAA priorities. The position works closely with Annual Giving and Major Gifts colleagues to identify promising donors, increase donor retention and giving, and develop future major gift prospects.

This is a relationship-focused fundraising position that combines consistent donor outreach with measurable fundraising goals. Success requires someone who enjoys connecting with people, is comfortable asking for financial support, and can manage a high volume of donor activity while building authentic, long-term relationships.

A successful candidate will be an engaging communicator who is comfortable initiating conversations and developing relationships with a wide variety of people. Fundraising experience is valuable, but experience in sales, business development, relationship management, nonprofit work, higher education, or another field requiring proactive outreach and measurable results can also translate well to this position.

The strongest candidate will be self-motivated, organized, and comfortable working toward clear goals for donor contacts, meetings, solicitations, and dollars raised. They should be able to manage a portfolio of relationships, consistently follow up on opportunities, listen carefully to what motivates a donor, and connect those interests with meaningful opportunities at UAA.

This role also requires someone who is comfortable making direct asks for financial support. The ideal candidate will approach fundraising with curiosity and confidence, understand that relationship building and solicitation go hand in hand, and be motivated by both individual donor relationships and measurable results.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, public relations, business, public administration or relevant field and four years of experience, or an equivalent combination of training and experience.

Position Details:

This position is located at the University of Alaska campus in Anchorage. This is a full-time, term-funded, exempt staff position complete with both a competitive salary and https://www.alaska.edu/hr/benefits/support/prospectiveemployees.php. UA provides a generous compensation package that includes retirement options, annual leave, 12 paid holidays per year, tuition waivers for employees and family members, and affordable medical, dental and vision care coverage. New hires will be placed on the https://www.alaska.edu/hr/benefits/compensation/compensation/salary-schedules.php#:~:text=of%20hours%20worked-,Salary%20Schedules,-Faculty%20Salary%20Schedules, Grade 81, based on education and experience.

We review applications on a rolling basis. Because we may close the posting once a sufficient pool of qualified candidates is established, we encourage early submission. Please note that once a viable pool is identified, further applications may not be reviewed.

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☎️If you have any questions regarding this position, please contact Helen Istephan, HR Coordinator, at histephan@alaska.edu.

This is a term-funded position reviewed annually for contract renewal at the University's discretion.

*To be eligible for this position, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without restriction. Applicants who now or may in the future require visa sponsorship to work in the United States are not eligible.

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The successful applicant is required to complete a background check. Any offer of employment is contingent on the background check.

Your application for employment with the University of Alaska is subject to public disclosure under the Alaska Public Records Act.

All employees at the University of Alaska are expected to uphold the highest standards of ethics and professionalism when conducting or engaged in university business.

*Each university within the University of Alaska system publishes an Annual Security and Fire Safety Report which contains information regarding campus safety and security including topics such as: campus law enforcement authority; crime reporting policies; campus alerts (Timely Warnings and Emergency Notifications); fire safety policies and procedures; programs to prevent dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking; the procedures the University will follow when one of these crimes is reported; and other matters of importance related to security on campus. The report also contains information about crime statistics for the three most recent calendar years concerning reported crimes that occurred on campus; in On-Campus Student Housing Facilities; in Noncampus buildings or property owned or controlled by the University or a recognized student organization; and on public property within, or immediately adjacent to and accessible from, the campus. The report also contains fire statistics for any fires occurring in an On-Campus Student Housing Facility during the three most recent calendar years.

Access to the reports is available at:

UAA: (Addresses Anchorage campus, Aviation Technology Complex, JBER - Elmendorf Extension, JBER - Richardson Extension, Kenai Peninsula College - Kachemak Bay campus, Kenai Peninsula College - Kenai River campus, Kodiak College, Kodiak High School Extension, Matanuska-Susitna College, Prince William Sound College, and Prince William Sound College - Cordova Extension) Online: https://www.uaa.alaska.edu/students/safety. Request a paper copy in person: UAA Police Department Office at Room 114 of Eugene Short Hall on the Anchorage campus / UAA Dean of Students Office at Room 122 of Rasmuson Hall on the Anchorage campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-786-1120 or mailto:police@uaa.alaska.edu / 907-786-1214 or mailto:uaa_deanofstudents@alaska.edu.

UAF: (Addresses Fairbanks Campus, Bristol Bay Campus, Chukchi Campus, Community and Technical College, Kasitsna Bay Campus, Seward Marine Center, Tok Campus, Kuskokwim Campus, and Northwest Campus) Online: https://www.uaf.edu/orca/files/ASFSR.pdf. Request a paper copy in person: UAF Office of Rights, Compliance and Accountability on the 3rd Floor of Constitution Hall. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-474-7300 or mailto:uaf-orca@alaska.edu.

UAS: (Addresses the Juneau Auke Bay Campus, Juneau Technical Education Center, Sitka Campus, & Ketchikan Campus) Online: https://uas.alaska.edu/compliance/clery-act/annual-security-reports.html. Request a paper copy in person: Hendrickson Building, Suite 202 on the Juneau campus. Request a paper copy by mail: 907-796-6371 or emailing mailto:uas.orca@alaska.edu.

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