Associate Vice President, Advancement Operations & Strategies - Tenders Global

Associate Vice President, Advancement Operations & Strategies

The George Washington University

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The George Washington University Development and Alumni Relations
(DAR) Division seeks an Associate Vice President for Advancement
Operations & Strategies.

DAR is responsible for leading the university’s alumni and
fundraising efforts and seeks to promote a culture of philanthropy
throughout the university community, including alumni, students,
parents, faculty, staff, corporations and foundations, patients,
and friends. Our goal is to advance GW’s mission of excellence in
education, research, scholarship, and patient care.

Reporting to the Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations,
the Associate Vice President will be an inspired leader with a
demonstrated track record to lead and enhance GW’s advancement
operations and strategic planning.

Primary responsibilities will include the following:

  • Function as the internal leader of DAR working
    closely with the executive leadership team to ensure the smooth
    functioning of the department.
  • Work with the Vice President and the executive leadership team
    to establish the strategic direction of fundraising programs,
    direct and short-term and long-range plans, develop budgets to
    support each unit’s goals, and ensure that performance is tracked
    and monitored.
  • Serve as a thought partner to the most senior members of the
    Advancement team across DAR on campaign planning,
    advancement services, and prospect and donor strategies.
  • Develop and implement the infrastructure needed to support
    multi-year, mega-campaigns or initiatives. Oversee the campaign
    team and collaborate with internal partners to set priorities and
    devise strategies for meeting campaign objectives.
  • Oversee the timely and accurate processing of philanthropic
    gifts and grants, campaign, and donor reporting while continuously
    improving policy and procedural options to facilitate compliance,
    engagement, and information exchange for advancement professionals
    university-wide.
  • Build data-mining capacity and accelerate the availability of
    prospective donor assessments, model outcomes, and other data to
    inform solicitation and engagement strategies, and develop and
    maintain these mining and modeling operations to utilize both
    proprietary and commercial data for internal decision-making.
  • Provide training resources, system applications, and user
    resources to professionals at DAR for the University’s
    advancement software to ensure the effective usage of this
    software.
  • Lead a CRM migration over a two-year period of
    staging, testing, and capacity building, followed by a lengthy
    implementation period in a pre-campaign and campaign
    environment.
  • In collaboration with GWIT, manage relationships with
    outside software providers, other vendors, and service providers,
    including budgeting, planning, and project management.
  • Provide guidance and demonstration of competency in the
    functional area of finance and accounting while working closely
    with the University’s CFO as a thought partner at the
    executive level.
  • Deliver guidance and demonstration of competency in the
    functional area of human resources and talent management while
    working closely with the University’s Vice President of Human
    Resources as a thought partner at the executive level.
  • Collaborate with senior administrators and staff to facilitate
    inter-departmental partnerships and achieve full divisional
    alignment.
  • Conceptualize a scalable suite of reporting tools and products
    for management information data-informed decision-making for use by
    the Vice President, executive officers, deans, school development
    officers, and DAR staff in a campaign environment –
    accounting for gifts and pledges, measures of donor engagement,
    estimates of and philanthropic capacity, campaign and other budget
    performance and other tools needed for DAR staff.
  • Serve as primary liaison to other information technology teams
    on campus to ensure seamless integration of advancement and
    administrative computing planning and system management and
    maintenance.
  • In collaboration with GWIT, ensure ongoing functionality
    enhancement for all web-based internet and intranet applications
    and services.
  • Design and establish programs for innovative use of proprietary
    and commercially available data for demographic and psychographic
    enhancement of constituent data records.
  • Develop appropriate coding mechanisms for internal processing
    which will enable long-term consistency and data manipulation.
  • Create programs (i.e., data modeling) to inform proprietary
    scores applied to constituent data records to inform solicitation
    and engagement strategies.
  • Develop an extensive understanding of the University’s academic
    and fundraising priorities.
  • Cultivate long-term, collaborative relationships with key
    internal stakeholders.
  • Protect confidential information and follow
    all DAR and GW guidelines pertaining to public records
    and constituent information.

Performs other related duties as assigned. The omission of
specific duties does not preclude the supervisor from assigning
duties that are logically related to the position.

  If interested, please apply at: https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/109884
    The university is an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer that does not unlawfully
discriminate in any of its programs or activities on the basis of
race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability,
veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
or on any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Successful
Completion of a Background Screening will be required as a
condition of hire.

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