Alumni Engagement, Mid-Value and Legacies Manager

What makes Goldsmiths unique?

Goldsmiths is a world-renowned university that has a reputation for rigorous and innovative academic work; creativity has long been our hallmark. Academic excellence and imaginative course content combine to make a place where creative minds can thrive.

About the Department

The Development and Alumni Office is a small, dynamic team responsible for building a culture of support for Goldsmiths, whether that is through philanthropy, volunteering or advocacy. Our fundraising activities support highly impactful projects that change lives and even save lives, and that reflect Goldsmiths’ values of civic engagement, social inclusion and educational excellence.

The Alumni Relations and Regular Giving programme aims to build relationships that inspire alumni, colleagues and friends to support Goldsmiths through strategic projects and initiatives, donations or volunteering. Through our multi-channel giving campaigns, we seek individual gifts, mid-value gifts and legacy gifts.

About the Role

Goldsmiths has an alumni community of 93,500 former students and staff in 160 countries around the world, who offer a unique set of skills and experience. This new role at Goldsmiths has been created to help us expand our Alumni Engagement, Mid-Value and Legacies programmes, which seek the engagement and support of our alumni community.

This role will work closely with the Head of Alumni Relations and Regular Giving to lead on strategic alumni engagement projects and to develop and deliver highly personalised mid-value and legacy programmes.

Alumni engagement and alumni strategic projects (approximately 50% of the role)

This role will lead on the development of strategic initiatives to bring alumni together with Goldsmiths to form relationships, projects and initiatives that support education at Goldsmiths. Projects will be wide-ranging in nature, for example the development of cross-organisational projects such as alumni/student mentoring, or setting up alumni panels, committees or boards to support Goldsmiths.

Mid-value and legacy fundraising (approximately 50% of the role)

This role will lead on engagement initiatives to develop and steward our mid-value and legacy donors who are acquired from our alumni engagement, individual giving and legacy marketing programmes. The legacy programme will deliver highly personalised engagement for legacy prospects and pledgers via events, a legacy society and other initiatives.

About the Candidate

We are seeking a strategic thinker and natural relationship builder. You will have the skills and experience to develop strategic projects that create partnerships between alumni and the College, for the benefit of Goldsmiths and our students. You will have an entrepreneurial approach to identifying new opportunities and developing ideas. You will be experienced in the development and delivery of mid-value and/or legacy programmes, including events, and building personal relationships with alumni and alumni donors, or equivalent. You will be skilled in writing engaging fundraising copy for communications and reports. We welcome applicants with a background in the Higher Education or Not for Profit sector.

Benefits

We have generous benefits - an agile working environment, 28 days' annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (four at Christmas and two at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development and a broad range of well-being initiatives such as staff choir, running club and creative writing classes. Goldsmiths, University of London is passionate about advancing equality and celebrating diversity.