If you believe in the power of education, and if you want to make an impact by helping to support the needs of students everywhere, join our team.
Description: The Director of Major Gifts will lead Scholarship America’s philanthropic efforts, overseeing major gift fundraising, development operations, and donor stewardship strategies. This role combines frontline fundraising with operational oversight, supervising a Major Gifts Officer and development operations staff to ensure accurate gift records and efficient processes.
Description: The Senior Scholarship Advisor has two core responsibilities: sales and account management of scholarship programs. Senior Scholarship Advisors respond to incoming leads seeking scholarship management services and/or design and set-up of new scholarship programs. SSA manages the sale process – including scholarship design – from lead to deal closing. SSA also generates leads via referrals from existing Scholarship Sponsors, as well as formal referral and channel partners.
Since it was founded in 1958, Scholarship America has distributed $5.7 billion to 3.2 million students, making it the nation’s largest private scholarship provider. The organization runs its own national and community-based scholarship programs, and works with partners wishing to establish scholarship and support programs to lower barriers to a college education and give students the support needed to succeed.
We are a national nonprofit organization with principal offices in Minneapolis and Saint Peter, Minnesota, plus remote workers across the United States.
We offer unique employment opportunities in areas such as Finance, Technology, Marketing, Scholarship Administration/Operations, Client Solutions and Development. We strive to find passionate employees with great relationship building, problem solving, attention to detail and customer service skills. Our employees are our number one resource, and we strive to provide a competitive and compelling total reward package in a flexible and team-oriented work environment.
Scholarship America knows valuing diversity is important to ensure success in serving clients. We do not tolerate discriminating behavior and demonstrate our commitment to diversity by recruiting and hiring a diverse workforce to reflect the clients we serve.
If this sounds like a team you would like to be a part of or if you have additional questions, please contact our Human Resources team.
We have four core values—the pillars on which we stand. They infuse and inform all the ways we work for students and their outstanding success. And our values of Student Impact, Teamwork, Inclusion and Curiosity tie into everything we do.
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It is the policy of Scholarship America that all external candidates for employment in staff (regular, temporary and seasonal) have criminal and other background information verified as a condition of employment.