Job Description
Coordinator for Development - Planned & Leadership Giving Amherst Campus Full Time JR6898 Amherst has taken a leadership role among highly selective liberal arts colleges and universities in successfully diversifying the racial, socio-economic, and geographic profile of its student body. The College is similarly committed to enriching its educational experience and its culture through the diversity of its faculty, administration and staff. Job Description Amherst College invites applications for the Coordinator for Development - Planned and Leadership Giving position. The Coordinator for Development - Planned and Leadership Giving is a full-time, year-round position. The expected salary range for this job opportunity is: $26 - $30 per hour. The salary offered will vary based on a number of factors, including but not limited to relevant education, training, and experience, tenure status, and other nondiscriminatory business considerations. Amherst College is pleased to provide a comprehensive, highly competitive benefits package that meets the needs of staff and faculty and their families. Click here for Benefits Information. The Coordinator for Development - Planned and Leadership Giving is a key member of the Development team, providing administrative, logistical, and data support to the Planned Giving and Leadership Giving teams and, by extension, to a diverse audience of alumni, parents, friends, faculty, and campus partners. The role supports efforts to build philanthropic support for Amherst College by helping to coordinate life income and other planned gifts and by assisting leadership giving operations, ensuring that information, meetings, and processes are well organized and timely. This position reports jointly to the Director of Gift Planning & Director of Leadership Gifts. It provides administrative support to the Planned Giving program in soliciting and administering life income gifts, deferred gifts, and gifts of unusual assets, and supports Leadership Giving in its work with top donors and prospects. The Coordinator maintains prospect and gift data in Slate and related systems, generates and runs standard and specialized queries and reports, and maintains accurate records that inform strategy and stewardship-where precision and attention to detail are critical to success in planned giving. In addition, the Coordinator provides project coordination and administrative oversight for special projects and events. The Coordinator is a tech-minded, detail-oriented self-starter with strong administrative, time management, and interpersonal skills. They can juggle multiple tasks while maintaining accuracy and clear follow-through, and they communicate professionally with alumni, donors, their families, and advisors, handling confidential and sensitive matters with discretion. The Coordinator is eager to learn the basics of gift planning and trust and estate administration and to apply that knowledge within established College policies and procedures. They are proficient with data and systems, entering and maintaining information in the College's CRM (i.e., Slate), generating clear, accurate reports that keep the team informed, and bringing strong organizational skills to event and meeting support, including invitations, logistics, calendars, and agendas. Advancement staff are expected to promote a positive, solutions-focused workplace culture through professional and constructive engagement in meetings, collaborations, and daily interactions. Advancement work also includes several "all-hands-on-deck" events that require occasional evening and weekend participation to support key College events, including-but not limited to-Reunion and Homecoming. This position is classified as a critical support role and, as such, is fully in-person and not eligible for a hybrid work arrangement. Summary Of Responsibilities Program Administration: Gift Planning Respond to inquiries about life income and other planned gifts, providing clear, timely, accurate information to alumni, parents, friends, and advisors. Coordinate with Finance and the Office of General Counsel to establish life income arrangements, including drafting agreements from templates, preparing gift memoranda, and assembling actuarial data sheets. Produce personalized life income gift illustrations using calculation software; ensure accuracy and clarity. Manage documentation and internal processing for new life income gifts, additions, and terminations; coordinate with donors, outside administrators, and Finance through completion. Handle routine donor service for life income arrangements (e.g., direct deposit, tax forms, address updates) with discretion and care. Maintain complete and current records for life income gifts, bequest intentions, and