Associate Vice President, Advancement Operations & Strategies

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.