Associate Vice President for Development

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.

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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.