Director of Foundation Relations
Georgia Tech Institute for Technology

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything they do:

1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

• Georgia Tech is ranked #3 in Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs. All of Georgia Tech's graduate engineering programs rank in the top 10 (Source: U.S. News & World Report).

• Scheller College of Business ranks #21 among all Undergraduate Business Programs and #17 for their Part-Time MBA (Source: U.S. News & World Report). 

• Computer Science ranks #6 by U.S. News & World Report's Undergraduate Program Rankings, #7 by U.S. News & World Report's Graduate School Rankings, #17 by Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and #28 in The Guardian's QS World University Rankings.

• In the category of Statistics and Operational Research, Georgia Tech ranks #9 in The Guardian's QS World University Rankings. Georgia Tech's graduate urban planning program is ranked #6 in the U.S. and #2 in Big City Programs by Planetizen.

• The Institute is consistently rated among the top universities in the nation for graduation of underrepresented minorities in engineering, physical sciences, and architecture and planning.
   
• With more than 60 chartered student organizations exploring religious, racial, sexual, and ethnic identity (but open to all), Georgia Tech's students find a way to celebrate, strengthen, and share their part of the robust cultural melting pot that thrives in the university's community.

• Maximize support for Georgia Tech from local and national foundations in following ways: manage a portfolio of approximately 40 private local and national foundations; establish and follow strategies to effectively guide relationships from identification to cultivation to solicitation to stewardship; cultivate foundations through any point of entry afforded university-wide; ability to prioritize multiple projects and funding priorities; and identify new funding prospects and/or proposal opportunities.
   
• Identify funding opportunities and prepare letters of inquiry, grants, and other proposals. Serve as a resource for editing and/or proofreading for proposals and reports before submission.
   
• Become informed on programs and research being conducted by faculty within the colleges, schools, center, and programs for which they are the Foundation Relations liaison as a means of identifying work that aligns with foundations' funding interests.
   
• Serve as a key contributor to and leader in campus-wide foundation relations training for staff, faculty, and program leads through meetings, onboarding sessions, roundtables, and workshops.
   
• Arrange campus visits with foundation representatives and/or secure visits for appropriate Georgia Tech leadership and/or faculty with national and local foundations at their respective offices. Prepare briefings and logistics for the visits and staff Georgia Tech representatives.
   
• Follow Division of Development protocols for timely documentation and database entry of all contact reports and proposal submissions.
   
• Manage Associate Director of Development, including supporting their fundraising and professional development goals and ensuring administrative tasks associated with the role follow Division of Development protocols.
   
• Represent Foundation Relations in campus meetings.
   
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• High sense of professionalism.
   
• Knowledge of the major national foundations.
   
• Attention to detail. Strong analytical thinking skills.
   
• Goal oriented and commitment to high productivity.
   
• A self-starter who possesses strong communication skills.
   
• An affinity for the mission of higher education and research.
   
• Understanding of effective foundation relations and grant making.
   
• Ability to work independently, as well as an integral member of a team of seasoned foundation relations professionals.
   
• An aptitude for working in a large organization. Ability to interact effectively with university constituents at all levels; to grasp and maintain the service-oriented nature of the office. Project management and organizational skills.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
   
• Five or more years of job-related experience.
   
• Strong proposal writing and editing skills.
   
• Demonstrated success in playing a lead or highly active role in securing grants from foundations, including at the six- and seven-figure level.
   
• Five years of front-line fundraising in cultivating and soliciting foundations on the national and local level, including prospect identification and research, and proposal writing.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s Degree.
   
• Ten years of experience working in an academic setting.
   
• Multiple years of experience and success in foundation fund raising for higher education, particularly in the sciences and/or technology.
   
• A career of 10 or more years that includes a significant amount of experience in development which could be coupled with work in other applicable fields such as marketing, communications, public relations, non-profit management or consulting.