Executive Director, CCC Development Foundation at Corning Community College (NY), NY

About the Department

When you join the SUNY Corning Community College (CCC) team, you are helping to positively transform the lives of our students, their families, and our communities.
 
We are a premier two-year College, offering degree programs, certificates, and continuing education classes.  We promote intellectual and personal growth through individualized education, inspire innovation to meet the educational and workforce needs of the community, and leverage a variety of partnerships to help our students and community succeed.  
 
The Executive Director of the CCC Development Foundation is responsible for providing leadership for the CCC Development Foundation (and the wholly-owned housing LLC). This includes the planning, organization, and implementation of a comprehensive resource/asset development program (such as gifts, donations, annual and comprehensive campaigns, alumni program, sponsorships and events). Manages the Foundation’s resources to ensure that CCC is a conduit for regional, national, and international philanthropic investment and an instrument to achieve the College’s strategic vision.  Oversees Grants Management area and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders on grant opportunities. 

Occasional meetings at different CCC locations and in the community may be required; travel for conferences, cultivation, and solicitation may be required. Prolonged time sitting/standing working with computers and monitors, ability to walk/move across campus including walking up and down stairs, ability to lift up to 20 pounds (occasionally may be more), repeated motions may include keyboard typing. Typical office and indoor building environments, occasional outdoor activity may be required. Incumbent must perform the essential duties and responsibilities with or without reasonable accommodation. The summary is intended to describe the general nature and level of work and is not intended to be a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities.
 
SUNY CCC embraces diversity and values an inclusive culture where every person is able to succeed to their full potential.  If you require an accommodation for the recruiting process, please contact [email protected] or 607.962.9229.

Position Duties

Fund-Raising and Strategic Planning (60%) -

• Lead the external relations required to cultivate and maintain individual and organizational donors along with the public and private partners necessary to develop strong support.
• Direct all fundraising activities, including the Annual Fund, comprehensive campaigns, Planned Giving Program, major gifts, capital projects, named funds, specialized campaigns and other priorities established by the College; providing metrics by which progress is tracked and goal attainment assessed.
• Collaborate with College Communications Department to generate digital and print resource development communications.
• Oversee Grants Management for the College, including bringing strategic grant opportunities to Senior Staff for consideration and approval as well as managing the processing of prioritizing grant opportunities and enforcing grant processes. 
• Develop and implement the Foundation’s Annual Resource Development Plan, with metrics as approved by the Regional Board of Trustees and the CCC Development Foundation Board of Directors.
• Develop, implement and oversee cultivation activities, including special events, alumni outreach, scholarship initiation/monitoring/communication, donor stewardship, donor acknowledgement, and donor recognition programs.
• Plan and execute the Foundation’s private grants program by researching funding opportunities, preparing grant applications, managing documents and deadlines, and tracking progress and results.
• Develop the Development Foundations’ Strategic Business Plan including annual goals in alignment with the College’s strategic initiatives and in conjunction with Board Directors, as appropriate.
• Identify potential risks for the College, the Development Foundation, and the CCC Housing Company LLC and mitigate those risks by working with key partners and contractors as needed. 
• Produce results driven outcomes related to the Strategic Business Plan, annual Department goals and comprehensive campaigns.

Administration and Leadership (30%) -

• Oversee administrative functions related to donor, alumni and community relations, such as prospect identification and research, donor and alumni database management.
• Serve as liaison between the College and the Development Foundation regularly communicating College plans and activities and collaboratively developing the CCCDF’s role in their success.
• Coordinate financial and business activities of the CCC Housing Company, LLC.
• Assure that the organization complies with all relevant statutes and regulations related to the operation of a non-profit organization.
• Facilitate board and committee management and relations including recruitment, onboarding, and training.
• Supervise departmental staff for Development Foundation and Grants Management.
• Administer the departmental budget.
• Perform other related duties, as assigned.

Institutional Advancement (10%) -

• Raise awareness of and cultivate support for the College’s regional economic impact through data informed communications.
• Direct the cultivation and recruitment of key volunteers/ambassadors to market/sell the value of CCC to the Southern Tier Region while supporting annual and comprehensive campaigns.
• Oversee the College’s Alumni Program.

Minimum Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills, oral & written communication skills, organizational skills, presentation skills and administrative skills applicable to a wide variety of constituencies.
• Computer literate, including proficiency in MS Office products and other software systems (familiarity with Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge a plus)
• Knowledge of and experience with resource development programs, such as capital campaigns, endowments, annual and planned giving programs
• Confident and collegial in working with the campus, public and community leaders
• Ability to work with confidential material
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Understanding of budgets, planning, assessment, and personnel processes
• Ability to work flexible hours and nights/weekends, as needed
• Ability to assess employee performance and provide appropriate coaching, mentoring, and feedback
• Ability to interpret and effectively communicate institutional policies, plans, objectives, rules and regulations
• Demonstrates commitment to accomplishing work in an ethical, efficient, and cost-effective manner
• Ability to effectively convey information verbally and in writing, demonstrate effective listening skills, and display respect for and openness to other people’s ideas and thoughts
• Ability to accept changes to job requirements, policies, workload, etc., as well as learn new methods, procedures, or techniques resulting from change with the ability to clearly approach problems and find solutions
• Demonstrates support for the College’s goal of becoming a more diverse, inclusive, and culturally aware community and practicing anti-racist/biased behaviors
• Experience managing an organization or team, including ability to delegate responsibility and support desired outcomes across a team. 

Other Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and seven years of relevant experience or master's degree with experience in non-profit management and/or nonprofit board leadership; or an equivalent combination of both education and experience
• Leadership and supervisory experience

• Familiarity with a community college environment 
• Five years of relevant experience in institutional advancement fundraising or a similar area
• Demonstrated ability to advance annual drives, fulfill major gifts, secure planned gifts, succeed with capital campaigns and private/public sponsorships.