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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><strong>Deputy Director of Development & Alumni Relations </strong></p>
<p><strong>DATE ADVERTISED: 25 May 2022 </strong></p>
<p><strong>CLOSING DATE: 19 June 2022 </strong></p>
<p><strong>HOURS: Full Time </strong></p>
<p><strong>SITE: All three sites </strong></p>
<p><strong>SALARY: Competitive</strong></p>
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<p>The Royal College of Art (RCA), the number one art and design university in the world, is seeking to appoint a Deputy Director of Development & Alumni Relations, who will work to support the final phase of its high-profile, £100m GenerationRCA campaign. Since the silent launch of the campaign in 2016, the team has raised £76m, supporting projects including a transformational new campus, and future-casting research in areas such as materials science and intelligent mobility.</p>
<p>This is an exciting opportunity to join the RCA and its highly successful Development team as its new landmark Design and Innovation campus, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, opens.  Having recently over-achieved and closed the capital element of the fundraising campaign, the small but high-performing RCA Development and Alumni Relations Office is a fun, fast paced and collegiate team to be a part of - regularly engaging with its global alumni network which includes world famous artists and designers including David Hockney, James Dyson, Tracey Emin, Ridley Scott, David Adjaye, Orla Kiely, Frank Bowling, Thomas Heatherwick, and Claire Waight Keller.</p>
<p>As Deputy Director of Development & Alumni Relations, you will make a strategic and direct impact by working closely with RCA Vice Chancellor, Dr Paul Thompson, the Director of Development and Chancellor Sir Jony Ive to craft, engage and secure significant support from UK and International philanthropists, to actively enable important initiatives such as pathways for under represented communities into art and design training, scholarships, and academic posts in exciting new areas of art and design. With £24m of the College’s £100m campaign target left to raise, the Deputy Director will be responsible for cultivating, soliciting and closing gifts at the seven-figure plus level, as the RCA aspires to exceed its goal for GenerationRCA.</p>
<p>The post will have a mix of strategic and operational responsibilities, and the ideal candidate will have a strong background and proven skills and experience in all areas of the DARO office - principally, high-level fundraising, alumni relations, constituent communications, and DARO operations/legislation (due diligence, GDPR, gift acceptance etc.).</p>
<p>The successful candidate will be educated to a degree level and have:</p>
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<li>Progressively responsible experience (minimum of five years) in development, in the UK Arts or Higher Education sectors</li>
<li>Proven experience of line-management and working within in a team and liaising effectively with a range of colleagues</li>
<li>Prior experience and a successful track record in securing substantial sponsorship and donations from high net worth individuals, the corporate sector, charitable bodies, and private/public sector organisations</li>
<li>Strong evidence of having worked to budgets and achieved financial targets</li>
<li>Experience of working with senior management and major donors and the ability to engage them</li>
<li>Significant experience of managing competing priorities and working to deadlines</li>
<li>Knowledge of established fundraising techniques and experience of, or an interest in, developing these techniques</li>
<li>Ability to take initiative and take ownership of issues</li>
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<p>For more information on the role please see the Info Pack.</p>