Prospect Development Officer

2 weeks ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Toronto Metropolitan Full time

About Toronto Metropolitan:


At the intersection of mind and action, Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) is on a transformative path to become Canada's leading comprehensive innovation university.

Integral to this path is the placement of equity, diversity and inclusion as fundamental to our institutional culture.

Our current academic plan outlines each as core values and we work to embed them in all that we do.

In April 2022, the university announced its new name of Toronto Metropolitan University. Learn more about our next chapter.

The team


DMZ is a world-leading startup incubator based at Toronto Metropolitan University that equips the next generation of tech entrepreneurs with the tools needed to build, launch and scale highly impactful startups.

By providing connections to customers, coaching, capital and a community, DMZ's customized approach helps innovators reach the next milestone in their entrepreneurial journey - whatever that might be.

Through its award-winning programming, DMZ has helped more than 820 startups raise $2.58 billion in capital and create 5,000+ jobs.

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with globally-accessible programming, DMZ has a widely-recognized international presence with offices in Vietnam, India and the U.S., and partnerships across North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia.


The Opportunity:

The
Prospect Development Officer:

  • Provides partnership relationship management, including prospecting, prospect management, pipeline analysis, records management and discovery activities to help qualify leads for DMZ, secure partners, and forge closer ties between DMZ and the broader communities.
  • Coordinates and engages with the central Prospect Development team to ensure synergies and efficiencies in the prospect development activities.

Responsibilities include:

  • Provides advancement research services for DMZ initiatives by designing and implementing prospecting and research strategies to support DMZ's goals, including, preparing Research Profiles, financial assessments of partnership's capacity and brief biographies.
  • Build engagement capacity through proactive prospect identification and pipeline management activities.
  • Mobilize partner engagement through outreach and discovery opportunities by initiating strategies to conduct discovery calls with suitable prospects and partners, incorporating the insight, interests and passions during the call to the overall picture of the prospect.

Qualifications

  • Successful completion of a Bachelor's degree and a minimum of 5 years of experience in an advancement/development role within an academic, nonprofit or corporate environment with the following requirements:
  • Demonstrated experience in working in a client-focused manner, providing Advancement support services and advice to front-facing staff members.
  • Proven record of achievement in fundraising programs, information services or related fields.
  • Successful track record submitting proposals, and a good understanding of the foundation and corporate proposal submission process.
  • Superb advancement research and analysis skills, superb prospecting skills and abilities to surface leads and ideas.
  • Solid understanding of the role of research in fundraising; understanding the role of records management in fundraising, partnership development, and stewardship.
  • Experience in the tech startup entrepreneurial and incubator ecosystem is a definite asset.
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.
  • Excellent communications skills, both written and verbal to synthesize information gathered effectively, when corresponding with the funder and delivering a compelling proposal.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and an aptitude and ability to organize the discussion with the prospect and make ongoing adjustments to the conversation in order to draw out the prospect's interests in the DMZ; to ensure the conversation flows effectively, and capture details from the conversation to review and then strategize on next steps after initial contact.
  • Superior judgment skills are required to execute strategies that surface precise and accurate intelligence, in the most time efficient manner.
  • Exercises excellent judgment and tact with the appropriate handling of confidential information.
  • Strong decisionmaking skills must be demonstrated in determining which information will be distributed, and to which members of the divisional community.
  • Excellent knowledge of various prospecting strategies is required along with the determination to execute these strategies.
  • Demonstrated experience in working collaboratively with colleagues in an Advancement setting to deliver projects and services and flexibility to effectively prioritize and ensure completion of work; to change priorities as the need arises; to work independently with mínimal supervision and to work overtime as required by the demands of the position.
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