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Senior Gift Planning Officer
California Institute of Technology
Senior Gift Planning Officer
California Institute of Technology
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Caltech Exempt Overtime Eligible: Exempt Benefits Eligible: Benefit Based Caltech is a world-renowned science and engineering institute that marshals some of the world's brightest minds and most innovative tools to address fundamental scientific questions and pressing societal challenges. Caltech's extraordinary faculty and students are expanding understanding of the universe and inventing the technologies of the future, with research interests from quantum science and engineering to bioinformatics and the nature of life itself, from human behavior and economics to energy and sustainability. Caltech is small but prizes excellence and ambition. The contributions of Caltech's faculty and alumni have earned national and international recognition, including 40 Nobel Prizes. The institute manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for NASA, sending probes to explore the planets of the solar system and quantify changes on Earth; owns and operates large-scale research facilities such as the Seismological Laboratory and a global network of astronomical observatories, including the Palomar and W. M. Keck Observatories; and cofounded and comanages LIGO, which, in 2016, observed gravitational waves for the first time. Job Summary The purpose of Advancement and Alumni Relations (AAR) is to foster a thriving and engaged community of support for Caltech. Through philanthropy, we ensure the Institute receives the necessary resources to achieve Caltech's aspirations and sustain its excellence in teaching, research, and scholarship in perpetuity. The Office of Gift Planning (OGP) represents one of the largest planned giving programs in the country with over $120M in assets under management. Caltech frequently works with complex gift assets, vehicles, and strategies, and we manage approximately 140 life income gifts (charitable trusts and charitable gift annuities) resulting in approximately 160 donor/beneficiary relationships. Reporting to the Executive Director of OGP, the Senior Gift Planning Officer (SGPO) will work with AAR colleagues to advance the near and long-term goals of the department, while serving as a critical partner in executing OGP's annual fundraising objectives. The SGPO will focus on managing a portfolio of donors and prospects, consisting of alumni and friends of Caltech, qualifying, cultivating, and soliciting gifts of $100,000+. The SGPO will have direct responsibility for a portion of the Institute's dollar goal as measured by activity for assigned portfolio of prospects and donors, as well as responding to periodic requests from colleagues and senior leadership. Essential Job Duties
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Internal Number: 6783903
The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) is a world-renowned science and engineering research and education institution, where extraordinary faculty and students seek answers to complex questions, discover new knowledge, lead innovation, and transform our future.
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