[SimonKoppel]

Can someone translate something from American to British for me? On the Blackbaud design blog, Nick Quagliara asks various questions about how query is used. A couple of these questions are specific to queries run "for your Director of Development". But we don't have anyone here with that job title, and I'm not sure I fully understand what the nearest equivalent would be. What does a Director of Development do, and why would it be important to treat their queries any differently from anyone else's?

[Peter Gulka]

In our hop this is the person who supervises all our Development
Fficers (fundraisers). She is also responsible for setting the
strategy for achieving our fundraising goals. In our case, she needs
to figure out how we will raise $300M in the next 10 years. This will
include identifying staff requirements, how much will be expected of
each Development Officer and how that team will be organized in order
to achieve the goal.

The equivalent position on the other side of our shop is the Manager
of Advancement Services. She is responsible for all of the support
staff that will assist the Development team in raising the money. As
the database guy I am part of that team.

[quote] SimonKoppel wrote:

Can someone translate something from American to British for me? On the
Blackbaud design blog, Nick Quagliara asks various questions about how query
is used. A couple of these questions are specific to queries run "for your
Director of Development". But we don't have anyone here with that job title,
and I'm not sure I fully understand what the nearest equivalent would be.
What does a Director of Development do, and why would it be important to
treat their queries any differently from anyone else's?

[SimonKoppel]

So it's basically a split between front-line fundraisers and admin support staff? OK, cool, that gives me enough of a steer to understand what Nick's about.

[Peter Gulka]

No it is the fundraiser's manager. She decides what the fundraisers
do. She plans the campaign and sets the strategy for how we are going
to raise all our money. All the fundraisers are her direct reports.

[Scots Girl]

I have just moved to the States from the UK and would say that the Director of Development would be the equivalent to the Director of Fundraising & Marketing.

Basically I used to work in the Fundraising department and now I work in the Development department basically doing exactily the same job.

Hope this helps!

P.S Life is a lot easier without Gift Aid but the dates are all back to front!

[donnab]

Howdy from one newbie to another -- I have a lot of experience with development and alumni relations/institutional advancement, so let me offer another .03 (inflation) of info: generally, the director of development is concerned with the "outside" face of the institutional advancement division. He or she directs the people and campaigns the outside constituents will see -- the development officers works for and with her/him; this person helps to plan/coordinate capital campaigns and any other campaigns in progress, etc. -- this is the outer face of the Janus which is Development -- the inner face is the director of operations, or even the director of internal operations -- this person coordinates and manages the in-house/back-office work -- advancement services/systems/information systems, budget, etc.

This is how I think of the division of labor, and it helps me because it makes a logical division.

Hth --

DonnaB

[andrea.bbbs]

Boy are you guys lucky. Here, we have a development department consisting of three people - the CDO, the Events Coordinator, and me. I post, query, report, research, assist the Event Coordinator because she has no assistant, and work event nights on set-up, clean-up, check-in, recording bids, check-out. I also maintain the website and am Sys Admin for the program database. Oh, yeah, the CDO also writes grants and I help there when needed.

It must be nice to have lots of people.

[donnab]

Well...you are getting a lot of experience! This will make you marketable, grasshopper. (But jeepers! I feel for you...)

Donna