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The Yale University Office of Development leads the university’s fundraising efforts. Yale benefits from an outstanding tradition of alumni giving, as well as significant and growing support from parents, friends, corporations, and foundations.
The Office of Development offers a dynamic and challenging work environment, with opportunities for meaningful accomplishment and true growth. We invite you to discover the excitement, diversity, and rewards of a career at Yale University.
Assistant/Associate Director, Yale College Alumni Fund, Annual Giving
The Yale Alumni Fund is seeking an Assistant/Associate Director to elevate fundraising and volunteer management efforts. The Yale Alumni Fund raises unrestricted funds to support the university's core needs, from financial aid and enriching student life, to teaching and research. In the fall of 2021, the university entered the public phase of For Humanity, the Yale Campaign, a university-wide fundraising initiative that aims to address the most critical challenges facing our world.
Associate Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations
Reporting to the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations and working in close coordination with the University Director for Corporate and Foundation Relations as well as Yale leadership and faculty, the Associate Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations is charged with helping to position Yale as a leading institution for funding of its institutional priorities and academic initiatives.
Associate Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations, Med & Inst
Reporting to the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Senior Associate Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations and working in close collaboration with the Associate Vice President for Development/University Director for Corporate & Foundation Relations, as well as university leadership, faculty and other colleagues, the YSM Associate Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations is a key member of the team charged with helping to secure foundation and corporate support in the form of research and programmatic gifts and grants for the priorities of YSM and its associated institutes, centers, and units.
Associate Director of Development, Clinical & Healthcare, YSM
The Associate Director of Development, Clinical Departments and Healthcare Delivery will work closely with the Director of Development, Clinical Departments and Healthcare Delivery to assist in the management of all aspects of engagement and fundraising activities for several clinical departments at the Yale School of Medicine. S/He will work toward building relationships with faculty, and with grateful patients, grateful patient families, alumni, non-alumni, and friends of the school and university with an ultimate goal to secure gifts in support of the faculty, programs, and facilities within the departments.
International Development Senior Administrative Assistant
Reporting to the Associate Director and Program Manager, the International Development Senior Administrative Assistant provides comprehensive and high-level administrative, database, travel, and event planning support to frontline gift officers on the International Development team to advance their mission to cultivate, solicit and steward international donors and prospects.
Leadership Giving Officer
Yale University seeks a driven and successful fundraiser to join the division of Alumni Affairs and Development. As a member of the Office of Development Leadership Giving team, the Leadership Giving Officer solicits prospective donors to Yale University for gifts of $10,000 to $250,000 and plays a central role in collaborating with colleagues in Major Gifts, the Alumni Fund, Reunion Giving, and Planned Giving to ensure prospects are solicited comprehensively.
Principal Gift Officer
Yale University seeks an experienced principal gift officer to join the university’s Alumni Affairs & Development division. Reporting to the university director, principal gifts and collaborating with partners across Yale, the principal gift officer is responsible for building relationships with and securing gifts from the university’s highest-level prospects, capable of making gifts of $10 million or more. The principal gift officer is a senior fundraiser in the Office of Development, expected to work in close coordination with the vice president for alumni affairs & development, president, provost, deans, and other academic and administrative partners to maximize donor support for priorities across the university.
Program Coordinator, Corporate and Foundation Relations
Reporting to the Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) Program Manager and working in a team-focused environment, the Program Coordinator provides a range of support for the CFR team in the Office of Development. The program coordinator supports our efforts to strengthen and maintain relationships with foundation and corporate donors to Yale's academic departments and associated institutes, centers, and units.
Program Coordinator, YSM
Reporting to the Senior Director, Brain and Behavior Team, the program coordinator provides high-level data support, research/writing, project management, and administrative support for the Brain, Behavior, and Children’s Health Team. These activities include support in all aspects of engagement and fundraising, including performing donor research, drafting written materials and briefings, collecting and analyzing data, coordinating communications with donors, prospects, faculty, and staff.
Proposal Development Manager, Corporate & Foundation Relations
Reporting to the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Proposal Development, the Proposal Development Manager partners directly with faculty principal investigators on development of grant proposals, provides advanced proposal conceptual development, technical writing and editing support, collaborates with other offices within the University to support proposals through to completion and submission, and works with colleagues in Corporate and Foundation Relations on other strategic writing projects, as assigned.
Research Analyst, Due Diligence, Prospect Development
The Research Analyst, Due Diligence is a key member of the Prospect Development team in the Yale’s Alumni Affairs and Development (AA&D) division, providing due diligence research to fundraisers and other relevant university staff with the goal of mitigating risk in a philanthropic context and protecting the institution from potential harm. The Research Analyst, Due Diligence analyzes the background and motivation of prospective donors or volunteers, using a variety of print and online sources (e.g. financial databases, court filings, and general news media) to assess reputational risk and potential adverse impact on the university.
Research Analyst, Prospect Development
The Research Analyst is a key member of the Prospect Development team in the Yale Office of Development, providing critical research support for the department’s fundraising initiatives and the university’s For Humanity capital campaign. Responsibilities of the Research Analyst include: research and write qualification reports to determine philanthropic profile of potential donors to support campaign priorities; compose high-level detailed reports and provide strategic analysis on potential donors to support fundraiser and administrator visits; and work on ongoing projects in prospect management and data analytics areas in prospect development.
Reunion Giving Officer
Yale University is seeking a dynamic and strategic Reunion Giving Officer to join the university’s Alumni Affairs and Development division. Reporting to the Director of Reunion Giving, the Reunion Giving Officer solicits gifts from Yale College alumni during their quinquennial reunions and manages alumni volunteers for several assigned reunion classes. Operating in a comprehensive, university-wide campaign environment, the Reunion Giving Officer achieves annual fundraising goals tied to specific reunion classes and ensures the overall success of their assigned classes in a multitude of impactful ways.
Senior Administrative Assistant, Major Gifts
Reporting to the Office Manager, the Senior Administrative Assistant, Major Gifts provides a wide range of complex and high level administrative, database, reporting and writing support to the Director and Regional Directors of Major Gifts and members of the Major Gifts team.
Senior Analytics and Data Services Coordinator
Reporting to the Director, Analytics and Data Services, support the efforts of Alumni Affairs and Development through high-level reporting and analysis utilizing database systems and other tools.