SUMMARY
In support of the university's mission and objectives, the Associate Vice President for Development serves as a strategic partner to the Executive Vice President (EVP) for Advancement in leading the university's comprehensive fundraising program. This role provides strategic and operational leadership for the Development division while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and donor-centered philanthropy. This position leads fundraising strategy, campaign execution, stewardship, operational excellence, talent development, and cross-campus partnerships while maintaining a select portfolio of leadership-level prospects and advancing institutional priorities.
Strategic Leadership, Operations & Team Performance
- Provides visionary leadership to the development team by building a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and donor-centered fundraising.
- Oversees overall development and philanthropic efforts at PBA including prospect research, gift services, donor relations, donor communications, grants, gifts-in-kind, foundation and corporate relations, major gifts, planned gifts, campaign activities, and donor-supported scholarships.
- Monitors goals across all areas and the overall fiscal year fundraising goal.
- Establishes clear expectations, measurable goals, dashboards, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for every functional area measuring both fundraising outcomes and leading indicators of success.
- Develops team members as leaders and performers through coaching, mentoring, and regular accountability meetings, including by guiding them to meet established goals within their roles and departments.
- Evaluates and advances organizational effectiveness regularly and continuously improves systems, workflows, and fundraising strategies.
- Identifies areas where goals are not met to develop improvement plans within systems and departments.
- Partners across academic and administrative units aligning philanthropic priorities with institutional priorities.
- Builds strong relationships and maintains regular communication with the Provost and Deans.
- Monitors fundraising performance, strategic plan KPIs, accreditation reporting, budgets, and operational effectiveness; advises team members on the development of reports for EVP and other leadership.
- Engages donors in cultivation and stewardship activities and promotes the curation of meaningful donor experiences to be executed by the team.
- Leads giving society strategies and collaborates with the team on ideation and execution of strategies.
- Manages relationships with scholarship-centric donors ensuring proper accounting of scholarship funds including regular reporting and stewardship.
Leadership Portfolio & Lead Gift Partnership
- Maintains a portfolio of approximately 25-35 leadership-level prospects, consistently moving relationships to a meaningful, proactive solicitation and hitting target fundraising goals for leadership prospects within the portfolio.
- Supports the EVP and President in principal and transformational gift strategies.
- Leads stewardship and engagement strategies for leadership giving societies.
- Ensures donor strategies and moves management are documented and executed consistently by team members.
God-Sized Dreams Campaign Execution & Institutional Initiatives
- Partners closely with the EVP to execute God-Sized Dreams Campaign initiatives, translating institutional priorities into measurable fundraising strategies.
- Provides strategic leadership in coordination with EVP and campaign consultants for campaign planning, execution, naming opportunities, reporting, and campaign communications.
- Ensures campaign reports are regularly updated to track success against goals.
- Oversees the production of proposals and donor agreements for top-tier campaign donors, ensuring that all activities are accurately reflected and tracked in the donor CRM.
- Oversees campaign prospect research for use by campaign leadership committee, EVP, and other leadership.
- Partners closely with marketing to execute on messaging, communications, and storytelling to support the campaign.
- Leverages fundraising data and emerging philanthropic trends to strengthen the campaign and large gift strategies.
- Provides leadership to the fundraising team in building relationships and making proactive solicitations for university priorities.
- Coordinates with cross-campus departments (academic units, business office, President's office) to resolve operational issues and ensure alignment on Advancement initiatives, events, and communications.
Alumni and Parent Strategy
Alumni:
- Provides strategic leadership and oversight of the PBA Alumni Association Board of Directors.
- Oversees all alumni board meetings; presents university updates and reports back key information to the EVP of Advancement.
- Interfaces with members of the Alumni Board providing opportunities to connect with the alumni community.
- Partners with the Events team to plan and execute alumni meetings, programs, and events.
- Coordinates with internal departments to facilitate alumni data requests and list pulls.
- Collaborates with the marketing team on any necessary collateral and communication pieces needed for alumni-related events and initiatives.
- Assembles and submits annual accreditation reports for alumni-related benchmarks.
Parents:
- Interfaces with the Parent's Council leadership for ongoing engagement.
- Collaborates with the events team for on and off-campus parent events.
- Evaluates and identifies PBA parents for potential caseload cultivation.
- Assembles and submits annual accreditation reports for parent-related benchmarks.