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.