Position Type:
Administration/Director of Advancement
Date Posted:
3/20/2026
Location:
Trinity High School
JOB DESCRIPTION
HIGH SCHOOL DIRECTOR OF ADVANCEMENT/DEVELOPMENT
Full-Time
City & State: Camp Hill, PA
School: Trinity High School
Payroll Grade: 15 FLSA STATUS: Exempt
NATURE OF POSITION
The Director of Advancement must demonstrate a love for young people and a commitment to Catholic education. Within the context of the school's mission statement and the Board of Trustees' policies, the Director administers, strategizes, and coordinates the school's advancement program, which raises both restricted and unrestricted gifts to maintain and enhance the school's current and future stability. They must provide leadership in all fund development efforts; initiate innovative approaches to building the school's donor constituency; and help create an environment in which philanthropy can flourish. The Director must exhibit broad, creative, and strategic thinking. The Director of Advancement must demonstrate strong interpersonal skills with an exceptional ability to build relationships.
Reporting Function: As a member of the senior leadership team, the director reports directly to the President.
Supervisory Responsibility: Supervises Volunteers
Major Areas of Responsibility:
- All fundraising efforts, which include: annual appeals, capital campaigns, endowment campaigns, grant writing, planned giving efforts, business development, sponsorships, foundations, and in-kind donations. A minimum of 50% of the time should be spent on this work.
- Identify, cultivate, and solicit major gift prospects of $10,000+ and manage their portfolios.
- Develop strategies and oversee the implementation of all advancement vehicles and activities.
- Collaboratively develop and supervise the integration and execution of special event programs that are consistent with the goals, strategies, and objectives of the institutional advancement plan.
- Facilitate and coordinate foundation/corporation cultivation, research, and proposals.
- Develop and manage cultivation strategies and programs with particular emphasis on alumni development.
- Strategic marketing plan that includes public relations, marketing strategies, and collateral materials.
- Develops, implements, and oversees a comprehensive communications program with all constituents.
- Coordinates the school and constituency promotion of the EITC program.
- Donor database management and IRS compatibility.
- Administer, manage, and monitor all database functions.
- Hold responsibility for the accuracy of all contributions and pledges input into the database.
- Hold responsibility for authorizing pledge write-offs.
- Facilitate the receipt of donor-restricted funds, ensure implementation in accordance with donors' wishes, and assist donors with knowledgeable advice regarding current Internal Revenue Service rulings, as appropriate.
- Lead, supervise, and annually evaluate the performance of staff in the advancement office.
POSITION ANALYSIS: This position requires an individual with the following attributes:
- Broad-based skills in all areas of development, including direct mail, annual membership programs, and donor stewardship
- Skill in writing in a creative, descriptive, technical, or factual manner
- Volunteer management skills and experience
- Personnel management & organizational skills
- Developing a project budget and monitoring expenditures
- Knowledge of event planning, public relations, and marketing principles
- Skill and expertise using donor databases / PC desktop publishing and word processing, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Knowledge of research methodology, interpreting results, and data analysis
- Ability to establish cooperative, tactful, effective, and harmonious working relationships with a diverse group of individuals, ranging from senior management, administration, board members, corporate leaders, faculty, staff, alumni, volunteers and the general public.
EDUCATIONAL/WORK EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in business, communications, finance, and/or marketing, or an equivalent combination of education and experience in a comparable field with five to eight years' experience in a comparable position.
- Experience in the development field preferred.
- Experience with fundraising, especially running direct mail and advertising campaigns for planned giving, is required.
- Continuing education is required to stay current with tax codes affecting charitable giving and to maintain the knowledge and skills required to serve as a school Development Director. This is accomplished by reading materials related to the profession, attending workshops or conventions, and participating in local, regional, and diocesan professional organizations, as approved and appropriate.
- This position requires specific knowledge of the Catholic Church's organization and procedures, or experience in a complex, multi-unit organization (preferably nonprofit) with a service orientation.
- Practicing Catholic required.
- Position requires a valid driver's license.
- Bilingual in Spanish may be desirable in some geographical locations.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand, walk, talk, reach, sit, hear, handle, and perform repetitive hand and wrist motions. Lifts and moves items up to 20 pounds.
WORKING ENVIRONMENT: Incumbent is required to perform extensive computer work in a school or office setting. Job duties will require the employee to manage evening/weekend meetings and attend school events and functions. The physical demands and work environment characteristics described above are representative of the physical capabilities that must be met by an employee and the working conditions that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
